Assets not showing when assets folder moved to Laptop?

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Hi,
I’ve copied my asset folder from my main PC to my Laptop.
Added the folder to Asset Libraries under File Paths and saved the preferences.
When open a new file and enter the asset browser, the directory can be seen named “assets”, but no actual assets.
I’ve tried selecting “all” and “unassigned”, but nothing shows.
As a test I opened a .blend file of one the assets and used “mark as asset” then resaved it.
This actually showed up!!
I have a lot of assets in subfolders, is there anything else I can try before having to open every single blend file and re selecting “save as asset”?

Also can anybody remind me how to make a shader an asset?

Cheers
B

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Did you copy over the ‘blender_assets.cats.txt’ ?
If yes, try without it, if no, try copying it.
Re-marking everything should not be necessary.

Shader asset: Do you mean a node-group? if yes then you can rightclick here where the name is and you should have the ability to mark it
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No I did not, Thankyou!!
Where would I find that?

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It should be located in the root folder of the original asset library on your main PC.

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Thank you so much for your help.
In the end I re-copied the entire folder.
It looks like the first time it only copied the sub-folders and none of the blend files.
So that was never going to work lol, all working now though.
Cheers
B

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