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When trying to drag and drop an image collection cloud asset into a folder from the Assets browser in Earth Engine Code Editor, I get the following error:

Asset error

Before trying to move an asset, delete its children: 'projects/ee-ekyzivat/assets/planet-test'.

Any ideas what might be causing it, or do you think it's a bug? Perhaps this operation is better suited to the python or java APIs or the earthengine command line interface?

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As far as I know, there is no way to move or rename an imageCollection when there are images in it. What I usually end up doing is a bit of a workaround: first creating a new IC at the desired location or with the desired name, then use the command line tool to move (mv) or copy (cp) each of the images there:

earthengine mv users/oldFolder/oldImageCollection/imageName users/newFolder/newImageCollection/imageName

To get the assetIds of all images in the collection, you can use ls:

earthengine ls users/folder/nameOfImageCollection

If there are a lot of images in the collection, it could be useful to write a bash script to go over each of them.

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  • This works, thanks! I agree it's a little clunky since it requires writing a shell script.
    – Ek00f
    Commented Jan 24, 2022 at 17:45

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