Drag-and-drop of a folder of assets to AEM Assets Web UI fails

Last update: Mon Feb 24 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

AEM’s web UI doesn’t support the drag-and-drop of assets in folders, but there are a few workarounds.

Description description

Environments

Adobe Experience Manager (AEM)
Adobe Experience Cloud Services

Issue

The drag-and-drop of a folder that contains assets fails.
The UI will show a message: "1 of [ n] assets failed"

The error.log will show a message:

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`11.04.2023 12:16:52.464 ERROR [ 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1 [ 16886753098] POST /content/dam[ target folder name] .createasset.html HTTP/1.1] com.day.cq.dam.api.AssetManager createAsset: repository exception while creating asset [ /content/dam/[ target foldername] [ dragged folder name] ] : jx.jcr.RepositoryException: org.eclipse.jetty.io.EofException: Early EOF`

11.04.2023 12:16:52.464 *ERROR*

[ 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1 [ 16886753098]  POST /content/dam[ target folder name] .createasset.html HTTP/1.1]  com.day.cq.dam.api.AssetManager createAsset: repository exception while creating asset [ /content/dam/[ target foldername] [ dragged folder name] ] :

jx.jcr.RepositoryException: org.eclipse.jetty.io.EofException: Early EOF

Resolution resolution

AEM’s web UI doesn’t support the drag-and-drop of assets in folders.

Instead, you can:

Use the AEM Desktop application which does support this. You’ll find information about the app and how to install it in Use AEM Desktop App in the AEM Tutorials.
Compress the folder into a .zip, drag it into the assets, then select it and choose Extract Archive.
- Note: You can also add the Unarchiver step to the DAM UPDATE ASSET workflow model so that .zip files will automatically be unarchived when uploaded.
- You can add these arguments to that step to have the .zip file deleted after the unarchiving: removeOriginal::true,updateMode::OVERWRITE

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