When scanning and importing documents, their folder paths are also scanned and the folder structure can be automatically created by migration-center in the target repository. This procedure will not keep any of the metadata attached to the folder objects, such as owners, permissions, specific object types, or any custom attributes. Depending on project requirements, it may be required to do a “folder-only migration”, e.g. for migrating a complete folder structure including custom folder types, permissions and other attributes first, and then populate this folder structure with documents afterwards. In order to execute a folder-only migration the following steps should be performed to configure the migration process accordingly: