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How to use 'Transfer Job' script

Hi there,

we have two different Deadline repositories in the studio and we want to transfer jobs between them. I find that Deadline already includes a script called Transfer Jobs to do this, but I can’t get it to work.

Let me give you an example:

  1. I’m trying to transfer a job from /mnt/x/PROJECTS/software/deadline_staging/ to /mnt/x/PROJECTS/software/Deadline/. So, I right-click on my job and select Scripts > Transfer Job.

  2. Then, I set /mnt/x/PROJECTS/software/Deadline/ in the New Repository field, but the confirmation message says that the job has been submitted to the same repository:

  3. If I check the Console, I can see that the deadline_staging version of the TransferSubmission.py script has been executed, and it even says the submit destination:

  4. I can’t see any new job in /mnt/x/PROJECTS/software/Deadline/ but I can see the new job (with the expected modified title of Transfer of ....) in the same repo:

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