# Can't Duplicate the project
**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/cant-duplicate-the-project/1669790
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X
**Created:** [January 11, 2022, 9:38am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/cant-duplicate-the-project/1669790 "2022-01-11T09:38:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@aiasp](https://community.thunkable.com/u/aiasp)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2022, 9:38am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/cant-duplicate-the-project/1669790/1 "2022-01-11T09:38:49Z")
I’m not able to duplicate a project. No error messages, only it doesn’t works.
Is there a solution ?
Thanks
[https://thunk.app/copy/72f94cb5c5e43b21c47e02df96808436](https://thunk.app/copy/72f94cb5c5e43b21c47e02df96808436)
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### Author:  [@jared](https://community.thunkable.com/u/jared)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2022, 2:18pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/cant-duplicate-the-project/1669790/2 "2022-01-11T14:18:09Z")
I’m not sure I understand the issue. The link you shared _is_ a duplicate of your project. What do you expect see/happen that is not currently occurring?
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### Author:  [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2022, 7:46pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/cant-duplicate-the-project/1669790/3 "2022-01-11T19:46:21Z")
I haven’t been able to duplicate a project for the past 48 hours. I click Duplicate project and nothing happens.
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### Author:  [@aiasp](https://community.thunkable.com/u/aiasp)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2022, 8:45pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/cant-duplicate-the-project/1669790/4 "2022-01-11T20:45:54Z")
I need to create a copy
first for backup what I’m doing,
and second to modify the project and create another one similar
but as @tatiang says, the button Duplicate doesn’t works . Neither from Myprojects page than into the editor.
thanks
Guido
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### Author:  [@jared](https://community.thunkable.com/u/jared)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2022, 9:54pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/cant-duplicate-the-project/1669790/5 "2022-01-11T21:54:39Z")
Hey guys,
I am unable to reproduce this issue on my end. Duplicating is working fine when in the drag and drop project. Can you please try hard refreshing the browser?
Are you able to duplicate projects from the projects screen?
If hard refreshing does not fix the issue, please open the developer console and report any errors that you may see appear when clicking duplicate. If you can do this, we might be able to sort it out quicker!
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### Author:  [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2022, 8:50am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/cant-duplicate-the-project/1669790/6 "2022-01-12T08:50:19Z")
After a hard refresh, it still won’t duplicate the project from within the project. When I click on the three dots menu and click Duplicate project, the menu just stays there and no message appears and no copy is made (I assume; I really can’t tell because of the date modified bug and duplicate project name bug).
If I click Duplicate from the Projects page, the pop-up menu just disappears. Nothing else indicates that a copy was made.
Here’s what the console shows:
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### Author:  [@aiasp](https://community.thunkable.com/u/aiasp)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2022, 7:28pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/cant-duplicate-the-project/1669790/7 "2022-01-12T19:28:25Z")
Jared, nothing works of those
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### Author:  [@muneer](https://community.thunkable.com/u/muneer)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2022, 8:20pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/cant-duplicate-the-project/1669790/8 "2022-01-12T20:20:30Z")
Can you duplicate the project from the main project list screen?
I just did and it worked.
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### Author:  [@jared](https://community.thunkable.com/u/jared)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2022, 9:32pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/cant-duplicate-the-project/1669790/9 "2022-01-12T21:32:26Z")
Sorry, 1 follow up question for the team.
Is this happening with all of your projects or only certain projects?
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### Author:  [@aiasp](https://community.thunkable.com/u/aiasp)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2022, 3:19pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/cant-duplicate-the-project/1669790/10 "2022-01-13T15:19:36Z")
only for some projects
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### Author:  [@codeswept](https://community.thunkable.com/u/codeswept)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2022, 3:22pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/cant-duplicate-the-project/1669790/11 "2022-01-13T15:22:52Z")
If you are a Free member then possible you have hit your app limit? When I hit mine I was unable to duplicate projects and create new ones.
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### Author:  [@aiasp](https://community.thunkable.com/u/aiasp)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2022, 3:50pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/cant-duplicate-the-project/1669790/12 "2022-01-13T15:50:29Z")
i’m PRO…
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### Author:  [@aiasp](https://community.thunkable.com/u/aiasp)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2022, 11:23pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/cant-duplicate-the-project/1669790/13 "2022-01-13T23:23:32Z")
[https://thunk.app/copy/30f9c63e36bb22efcfe86c741050826d](https://thunk.app/copy/30f9c63e36bb22efcfe86c741050826d)
I need to duplicate it… any ideas ?
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### Author:  [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2022, 11:35pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/cant-duplicate-the-project/1669790/14 "2022-01-13T23:35:16Z")
At the moment, I think it **is** working to duplicate projects from the Projects page. However, because of the two known issues with duplicating projects, I can’t tell which project is the newest copy! These were all made in the last two days while I was thinking that duplicating projects didn’t work:
There is still no notification that a copy has been made and since the modified dates are incorrect, they don’t “pop to the top” of the projects list.
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### Author:  [@aiasp](https://community.thunkable.com/u/aiasp)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2022, 11:27pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/cant-duplicate-the-project/1669790/15 "2022-01-14T23:27:08Z")
it doesn’t works… here u find a video of what happens (nothing…)
> **[2022-01-15 00-20-24.mp4](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nsvDRQtHIL-HpPqAaM8_TsAsuju6yYqc/view?usp=sharing)**
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> Google Drive file.
thanks
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### Author:  [@jared](https://community.thunkable.com/u/jared)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2022, 11:28pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/cant-duplicate-the-project/1669790/16 "2022-01-14T23:28:56Z")
If anyone has anything to add, I’ll be filing this as a big report internally and as much detail as possible is ideal.
Internally we are working on the entire remix/copy process. So, the more community led and agreed upon suggestions/innovations, the better
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### Author:  [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2022, 11:36pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/cant-duplicate-the-project/1669790/17 "2022-01-14T23:36:16Z")
I think the two bug reports I filed are helpful and I also think that long-term, this should be tied into the idea of versioning. Especially now that accounts are often limited in terms of the number of projects customers can create, it makes sense to offer versioning/backups without the need to constantly duplicate projects.
I know for my style of developing, I often keep 5 or more copies of a major project while I’m working on it. It would be great to have a single project file that has versioning history or a backup when needed.
But more short-term, the project duplication, date stamps and naming need to work and right now they don’t. I’m glad your team is looking into it.
**Bug Reports:**
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> \### Platform
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> \### Steps to Reproduce
> 1. Duplicate a project from the \[Project…s page\](https://x.thunkable.com/projects).
> 2. Duplicate the same project again.\*
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> \*I think there may have been an intermediate step between 1 and 2 that I can't recall.
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> \### Expected Behavior
> A project named "Lunch Plan v2" should have a duplicated project named "Lunch Plan v2 copy". And if I duplicate the first project again, the new duplicate should be named "Lunch Plan v2 copy 2" instead of "Lunch Plan v2 copy" which conflicts with the first duplicate.
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> \### Actual Behavior
> See above.
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> \### Project Link
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> \###Community Link
> If there's an ongoing discussion about this behavior in the Community, please link to it here
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> STACK TRACE AND/OR SCREENSHOTS
> \`\`\`
> !\[image\](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/10355498/142820506-a7af2402-8fe7-4162-b185-075d6167afd9.png)
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> \### Platform
> Thunkable X
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> \### Issue/Request Origin
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> \### Steps to Reproduce
> …
> 1. Make a copy of a project.
> 2. The date modified listed on the https://x.thunkable.com/projects page is the original creation date (as far as I can tell) for the source project.
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> \### Project Link
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> \### Expected Behavior
> The date modified value should be the latest date modified value for the source project, not its creation date.
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> \### Actual Behavior
> What actually happens?
> \`\`\`
> STACK TRACE AND/OR SCREENSHOTS
> \`\`\`
This happens but much less often than those two issues:
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> \### Platform
> Thunkable X
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> \### Issue/Request Origin
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> \### Steps to Reproduce
> …
> 1. This doesn't happen every time but maybe once in ten times. I duplicate a project from the https://x.thunkable.com/projects page and it adds "copy" to the end of the new project name.
> 2. I then change the name and press return. The new name appears to stick.
> 3. I then click to open the copied project and when it opens, it shows the original name ("\_\_\_\_\_ copy").
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> \### Project Link
> This happens with multiple projects in my account including "Photo Journal 2.0"
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> \### Expected Behavior
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> \### Actual Behavior
> \`\`\`
> STACK TRACE AND/OR SCREENSHOTS
> \`\`\`
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### Author:  [@jared](https://community.thunkable.com/u/jared)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2022, 12:54am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/cant-duplicate-the-project/1669790/18 "2022-01-15T00:54:10Z")
Thanks @tatiang
Your input is invaluable!
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### Author:  [@aiasp](https://community.thunkable.com/u/aiasp)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2022, 5:43pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/cant-duplicate-the-project/1669790/19 "2022-01-15T17:43:01Z")
yes Guys,
I use duplicate to backup my app,
I’m really really scared to loose all the job I’ve done !
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### Author:  [@muneer](https://community.thunkable.com/u/muneer)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2022, 6:43pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/cant-duplicate-the-project/1669790/20 "2022-01-15T18:43:26Z")
> [@aiasp](#):
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> scared to loose
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