# Colectives migration

**URL:** <https://help.nextcloud.com/t/colectives-migration/131345>\
**Category:** ℹ️ Support\
**Tags:** collectives-app\
**Created:** [January 18, 2022, 10:09am UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/colectives-migration/131345 "2022-01-18T10:09:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![mala57](https://help.nextcloud.com/user_avatar/help.nextcloud.com/mala57/32/49604_2.png) [@mala57](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/mala57)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2022, 10:09am UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/colectives-migration/131345/1 "2022-01-18T10:09:14Z")

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When moving from a slow server to a high-performance NC 23 server we can move the files from collectives. Or more correctly we got a zip of the old ones, but we don’t understand where to extract them on the new server?

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**Author:** ![mejo](https://help.nextcloud.com/user_avatar/help.nextcloud.com/mejo/32/9592_2.png) [@mejo](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/mejo)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2022, 1:49pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/colectives-migration/131345/2 "2022-01-18T13:49:24Z")

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Hey @mala57,

there’s no “officially supported” way of migrating collectives from one server to another. I’d suggest to do the following:

1. Backup the old collective content by downloading a zip of the collective folder content (under `Collectives/<mycollective>` in the Files app)
2. Create the respective collective on the new server
3. Upload the contents of the backups to the new collective folder (under `Collective/<mycollective>` in the Files app)
4. Add members to the new collective/circle

You will lose information about the most recent user that changed pages and when pages got changed, as well as public shares of the collective. Apart from that, everything should be retained.

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**Author:** ![mala57](https://help.nextcloud.com/user_avatar/help.nextcloud.com/mala57/32/49604_2.png) [@mala57](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/mala57)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2022, 4:42pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/colectives-migration/131345/3 "2022-01-18T16:42:16Z")

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And it works! 😀  
Thx buddy

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**Author:** ![Witzker](https://help.nextcloud.com/user_avatar/help.nextcloud.com/witzker/32/36775_2.png) [@Witzker](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/Witzker)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2023, 9:20pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/colectives-migration/131345/4 "2023-10-28T21:20:13Z")

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Hi, I have lott of files and folders in my collective folder.  
How can I upload the whole folder to the new server.  
In WIN SPC I cannot find the subfolders of Collectives!  
 ![image](https://help.nextcloud.com/uploads/default/original/3X/a/a/aae42b730f675f299d9f23a5e3f266b4991a993d.png)  
in files I see this  
 ![image](https://help.nextcloud.com/uploads/default/original/3X/b/f/bfed9a63df79b1bd8562d065655d2c3ed2d14035.png)  
The downloaded \*.Zip has this content  
 ![image](https://help.nextcloud.com/uploads/default/original/3X/c/c/cc31ac44a4024d5c17f91e099a1be51c87e3a0ec.png)

Where can I find these folders and files in Win SPC  
Pls help

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**Author:** ![system](https://help.nextcloud.com/user_avatar/help.nextcloud.com/system/32/29333_2.png) [@system](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2024, 1:23pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/colectives-migration/131345/5 "2024-09-26T13:23:01Z")

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