# SourceArtFolder/ Copying Assets
**URL:** https://discussions.unity.com/t/sourceartfolder-copying-assets/503055
**Category:** Asset & Content Management
**Created:** [April 22, 2013, 9:27pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/sourceartfolder-copying-assets/503055 "2013-04-22T21:27:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@MylesLambert](https://discussions.unity.com/u/MylesLambert)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2013, 9:27pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/sourceartfolder-copying-assets/503055/1 "2013-04-22T21:27:23Z")
Hey!
As part of my project structure I separate my source art (maya scenes, fbx, psd’s ect.) from my actual development folder (unity project folder). This is purely to keep a clean project folder and to allow me to mess around in the source art without breaking my game.
I then import the assets into my unity project folder (FBX/ TGAs ect). So for example:
**Source Art :** E:\SourceArt\Boats\Rose\TGA\T\_TiledSections\_D.TGA
**Development :** E:\Development\Brine\Assets\Boats\Rose\TGA\T\_TiledSections\_D.TGA
Now this works quite well, however if I make a change to a source art asset, and right click on the asset in the project view in unity and click reimport, it doesn’t actually reimport the asset from the place I imported it from - just from the tga in the development folder.
This is obviously expected behavior - but isn’t ideal for my situation (as the only way for me to fix this is to manually copy the files across). Is there a better solution to this?
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### Author:  [@iossif](https://discussions.unity.com/u/iossif)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2013, 11:07am UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/sourceartfolder-copying-assets/503055/2 "2013-04-23T11:07:19Z")
well… the obvious solution is to not use each file twice 😛
you can keep your project clean with an organized file structure as well. for messing around there is usually source control.