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title: "What should I do to prepare for an Acquia asset migration?"
date: "2025-01-09T16:54:47+00:00"
summary: "Prepare for a smooth Acquia asset migration with our comprehensive guide. Learn essential steps, from organizing folder structures to configuring upload profiles, ensuring a successful transfer of your digital assets."
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When using the [Acquia Asset Migration Service](What-are-the-steps-to-migrate-assets-from-my-current-DAM-to-the-Acquia-DAM), prepare for migration by following these steps. 

Share these details with Acquia
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1.  Your DAM URL. For example, eudaimonia.acquiadam.com.
    
2.  The type of migration: hard drive or S3 transfer.
    
3.  The estimated number of assets.
    
4.  A deadline for the migration. 
    

Organize folder structures
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If you’re doing an S3 transfer, organize the folder structures so they transfer into the DAM correctly.  
  
Remember that each parent or root folder can be matched to a unique [upload profile](/acquia-dam/how-do-i-create-upload-profiles "How do I create upload profiles?") – which assigns assets to an [asset group](How-do-I-create-asset-groups) – within the DAM. Subfolders within those parent folders will take on the upload profile of the parent folder. Also, ensure that folder names have no [restricted characters](Are-there-good-and-bad-characters-for-filenames).   
  
You can use this [CSV template](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16kOgUBqgrmB2OgnVdrR_WPBldkej6At7/copy) to help plan your migration.   
  

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Check your upload profiles
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For the upload profiles you’re using, make sure your [metadata types](/acquia-dam/what-are-metadata-types "What are metadata types?") include the [original filepath field](/acquia-dam/what-original-filepath-field "What is the original filepath field?"). If they don’t, the field will not be filled in during the migration. Acquia teams can help you add that field, if needed.