Move from Frontify, Bynder, Brandfolder or Google Drive
You are leaving another DAM, a brand portal tool or a shared Drive. Artbucket has no connector that pulls from Frontify, Bynder, Brandfolder or Google Drive. You download your files from the old tool and bring them in. This page says what comes across and what you redo.
Bring the files in
Section titled “Bring the files in”Pick one of these, by how much you have.
A few hundred files
Section titled “A few hundred files”Drop the folder into Assets, or open New in the sidebar and choose Upload a folder. Every file inside lands in the library; the folders themselves don’t become collections. Make the collections you need afterwards and add files to them.
Your brand kit, with its folders
Section titled “Your brand kit, with its folders”If your server offers it, open
Brands, New brand and choose Import your brand. Upload a .zip of
everything, or just the guidelines PDF, and choose Upload and read.
Artbucket reads it into a plan before anything is added:
- the zip’s folders become collections,
- a brand book in it is read into rules (colors, typography, logos, voice) and draft guideline pages,
- logos can be cut from the book when there is no separate file.
Review the plan, untick what you don’t want, and choose Apply the plan. Opening a plan takes Contributor, applying it Editor. Changed your mind? Undo import removes what it added, within 30 days.
Thousands of files
Section titled “Thousands of files”Ask a developer to script it with the command line:
npx artbucket login assets.example.com --scope writenpx artbucket ingest ./export/*.jpg --collection {collection-id} --tag spring-2026ingest takes files or public URLs. The same file uploaded twice is stored
once.
What comes across
Section titled “What comes across”- Titles, captions, credits, copyright and keywords written inside the files (EXIF, IPTC and XMP) are read on upload. Keywords become tags.
- Content Credentials (C2PA) are kept.
- Figma and Google Docs links can be added as links, with Add a link in the New menu.
What you redo
Section titled “What you redo”- Custom metadata: fields your old tool kept outside the files, like a campaign or a region, don’t travel. Define them in Settings, Custom fields, then fill them in. A collection can carry values its files inherit.
- Licenses: enter each licensed photo’s terms in its Rights fold, so the use check works. See Check a photo.
- Guidelines: unless the import read your PDF, set the brand up as rules: Set up your brand takes an afternoon. An AI tool connected as an Editor can read the PDF and write the rules for you to check.
- Links: links into the old tool stop working when you close it, and
nothing redirects them. Replace them with Artbucket links, which end in
/c/and keep working through new versions. - People: invite them in Settings, People.
When it worked
Section titled “When it worked”Search in Assets for a keyword from your old tool and the files come up with their tags. The Brand Agent Score on the brand’s Overview shows what the brand still lacks.