# CodeBot cannot move files between writable folders

**URL:** https://talk.remobjects.com/t/codebot-cannot-move-files-between-writable-folders/33932
**Category:** CodeBot
**Created:** [September 6, 2026, 3:25pm UTC](https://talk.remobjects.com/t/codebot-cannot-move-files-between-writable-folders/33932 "2026-09-06T15:25:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![iaacovr](https://talk.remobjects.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/d6d6ee/32.png) [@iaacovr](https://talk.remobjects.com/u/iaacovr)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2026, 3:25pm UTC](https://talk.remobjects.com/t/codebot-cannot-move-files-between-writable-folders/33932/1 "2026-09-06T15:25:20Z")

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When folders are added to “Extra File System Access”, it can read or write but not move between writable folders.

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### Author: ![david.millington](https://talk.remobjects.com/user_avatar/talk.remobjects.com/david.millington/32/21503_2.png) [@david.millington](https://talk.remobjects.com/u/david.millington)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2026, 9:45am UTC](https://talk.remobjects.com/t/codebot-cannot-move-files-between-writable-folders/33932/2 "2026-09-08T09:45:42Z")

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Thanks Iaacov - will look into it.

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### Author: ![iaacovr](https://talk.remobjects.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/d6d6ee/32.png) [@iaacovr](https://talk.remobjects.com/u/iaacovr)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2026, 2:00pm UTC](https://talk.remobjects.com/t/codebot-cannot-move-files-between-writable-folders/33932/3 "2026-09-08T14:00:55Z")

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On a different task where CodeBot was asked to move files, it initially failed then said it was going to try a different approach and succeeded.  
I asked CodeBot to write the technical details of the failed move and the successful workaround.

Here’s what it wrote:

Here are the exact technical details of the failed rename and the workaround.

The failure was on `renameFile` during the RUNDS-182 archive step (moving review markdown files from `E:/Tickets/CR` to `E:/Tickets/Done`).

From tool-history evidence:

```auto
entryId 9900 renameFile old=E:/Tickets/CR/RUNDS-182_CodeReview.md
result: Error: File not found in project: E:/Tickets/CR/RUNDS-182_CodeReview.md

entryId 10000 renameFile old=E:/Tickets/CR/RUNDS-182_CodeReview_FollowUp1.md
result: Error: File not found in project: E:/Tickets/CR/RUNDS-182_CodeReview_FollowUp1.md

```

Retrying with relative `../Tickets/...` paths failed the same way (`entryId 10300`, `10400`), and folder probes also showed `../Tickets/CR` / `../Tickets/Done` were not valid from the active workspace root (`entryId 11100`, `11200`).

Why it failed: in this client/session, `renameFile` behaved as project-scoped and rejected those ticket artifacts as “not in project,” even though the files existed on disk.

How it was overcome: the archive move was done with `applyPatch` file-move operations instead of `renameFile`:

```auto
entryId 12200 applyPatch
Move: E:/Tickets/CR/RUNDS-182_CodeReview.md -> E:/Tickets/Done/RUNDS-182_CodeReview.md
Move: E:/Tickets/CR/RUNDS-182_CodeReview_FollowUp1.md -> E:/Tickets/Done/RUNDS-182_CodeReview_FollowUp1.md
result: success

```

Post-checks confirmed the move completed:

- `E:/Tickets/Done` contains both files (`entryId 12700`)
- `E:/Tickets/CR` is empty for RUNDS-182 files (`entryId 12800`).

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### Author: ![david.millington](https://talk.remobjects.com/user_avatar/talk.remobjects.com/david.millington/32/21503_2.png) [@david.millington](https://talk.remobjects.com/u/david.millington)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2026, 1:51pm UTC](https://talk.remobjects.com/t/codebot-cannot-move-files-between-writable-folders/33932/4 "2026-09-17T13:51:14Z")

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Thankyou. This looks like an issue with our folder permissions - we will look into it.