# Importing and Exporting Collections **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions\ **Tags:** release-2-15\ **Created:** [June 7, 2021, 3:55pm UTC](https://forum.fontba.se/t/importing-and-exporting-collections/52 "2021-06-07T15:55:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![PartPurple](https://forum.fontba.se/user_avatar/forum.fontba.se/partpurple/32/54_2.png) [@PartPurple](https://forum.fontba.se/u/PartPurple)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 3:55pm UTC](https://forum.fontba.se/t/importing-and-exporting-collections/52/1 "2021-06-07T15:55:23Z")
Hello! I’m running Fontbase 2.15.6 on a brand new Windows 10 machine. I seem to be having an issue with importing and exporting collections in Settings. The popup notification says imports and exports are successful, but I see no new or changed files or folders in the Fontbase root installation folder or in the User\Fontbase folder. Can you specify a filename or path I should be looking for? Is this a bug, or am I the only one with this issue? TYIA 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![tsaritzky](https://forum.fontba.se/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/eb9ed0/32.png) [@tsaritzky](https://forum.fontba.se/u/tsaritzky)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 5:02pm UTC](https://forum.fontba.se/t/importing-and-exporting-collections/52/2 "2021-06-07T17:02:10Z")
Is your root folder on a cloud drive? They need to share the same root folder. ---
**Author:** ![dominik](https://forum.fontba.se/user_avatar/forum.fontba.se/dominik/32/4_2.png) [@dominik](https://forum.fontba.se/u/dominik)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 5:30pm UTC](https://forum.fontba.se/t/importing-and-exporting-collections/52/3 "2021-06-07T17:30:50Z")
The collections file is exported into the FontBase root folder, in the **.fontbase** subfolder. It may be hidden by default on some computers. Also, if you want to import collections on the second computer, you will need to sync the FontBase root folder somehow. ---
**Author:** ![PartPurple](https://forum.fontba.se/user_avatar/forum.fontba.se/partpurple/32/54_2.png) [@PartPurple](https://forum.fontba.se/u/PartPurple)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 6:50pm UTC](https://forum.fontba.se/t/importing-and-exporting-collections/52/4 "2021-06-07T18:50:41Z")
Nope, not anymore…everything is on my C, D, or E drives. ---
**Author:** ![PartPurple](https://forum.fontba.se/user_avatar/forum.fontba.se/partpurple/32/54_2.png) [@PartPurple](https://forum.fontba.se/u/PartPurple)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 6:56pm UTC](https://forum.fontba.se/t/importing-and-exporting-collections/52/5 "2021-06-07T18:56:23Z")
Thanks for the info! I found the exported collections file on my old machine and copied it to the .fontbase folder on my new machine, and everything is working properly. Thank you again! ---
**Author:** ![dec](https://forum.fontba.se/user_avatar/forum.fontba.se/dec/32/132_2.png) [@dec](https://forum.fontba.se/u/dec)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2022, 6:33am UTC](https://forum.fontba.se/t/importing-and-exporting-collections/52/6 "2022-12-18T06:33:10Z")
hmm. as per earlier post, i have a .fontbase folder and a …\fonts folder (both under \fontbase) which pretty much dupliacte each other. is this necessary? ---
**Author:** ![yuriy](https://forum.fontba.se/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/ea666f/32.png) [@yuriy](https://forum.fontba.se/u/yuriy)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2023, 5:21pm UTC](https://forum.fontba.se/t/importing-and-exporting-collections/52/7 "2023-01-10T17:21:45Z")
Hello again @dec, replied in the other branch: > [@Fontbase folder / fonts duplication](https://forum.fontba.se/t/fontbase-folder-fonts-duplication/457/4): > > Hello @dec, sorry for the delay and thank you for the post. .fontbase folder is used for storing collection data, e.g. importing and exporting by defaut. As for …/FONTS - this is not a default FontBase folder, so it’s probably something a user on your machine created at some point in the past, perhaps an accidental renamed copy of the .fontbase folder? Hope this helps,