topic Re: Moving files from Volume to Workspace in Data Engineering

Moving files from Volume to Workspace

Aviraldb — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 11:26:53 GMT

Hello Team,

I am trying to move some files from volume to

%sh

databricks fs cp dbfs:/Volumes/workspace/default/delc/generated_scripts/*.py Workspace/Shared/Delc_Project/scripts/

I tried all ways , Please help me to move them @DataBricks @Louis_Frolio

@BS_THE_ANALYST @-werners-

Re: Moving files from Volume to Workspace

Raman_Unifeye — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 11:40:02 GMT

You're running into an error because the fs cp command is to copy files between cloud storage locations (like DBFS, Volumes, or external storage) and does not support copying directly into the Databricks Workspace repos path, which starts with /Workspace/Shared/.

The Workspace path is accessed via Git repositories (Repos), which use a different protocol than cloud storage.

You should try 'databricks workspace import'

Re: Moving files from Volume to Workspace

Coffee77 — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 11:58:49 GMT

Take a look to this documentation: https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/files/ Here are the different ways of working with files in Databricks depending on source. I would recommend to copy files from cloud storage to catalog volumes and then, process file as needed.

Re: Moving files from Volume to Workspace

Prajapathy_NKR — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 04:47:49 GMT

@Aviraldb

please try the below way,

%sh

cp /dbfs/Volumes/workspace/default/delc/generated_scripts/*.py /Workspace/Shared/Delc_Project/scripts/

Hope it helps.