How to Copy a Library Without Transferring Changes

sabrinaagarwal

Hi - I've been tasked with making edits to a library, but my supervisor wants to preserve the original library as well. I created a new library with the same files but the changes transfer over. Is there a way to avoid this?

adamsmith

From what I'm understanding, you actually created a new collection in the same library. That will indeed hold aliases of the same items, so modifying them in one collection modifies them everywhere.
You have two options for what you want:
a) You actually create a new *library*, i.e. a group, with the same items or
b) you use the "Duplicate items" function on right click to create actual duplicates of items (this won't let you duplicate any existing collection structure, though).