Drupal-8-manina is at its highest. Modules are being ported, blog posts are
being written, and new sites are being coded, so we in Gizra decided to join the
party.

We started with a simple site that will replace an existing static site. But we needed
to migrate node attachments, and we just couldn’t find an existing solution. Well,
it was time to reach out to the community

Any
example of #Drupal 8
migration of files/ images out there? (including copy from source into public:// )

— Amitai Burstein (@amitaibu) April 8, 2016

A few minutes after the tweet was published, we received a great hint from the fine folks at
Evoloving Web. They were already migrating files into Drupal 8
from Drupal 7, and were kind enough to blog post about it.

However, we were still missing another piece of the puzzle, as we also wanted to migrate
files from an outside directory directly into Drupal. I gave my good friend @jsacksick a poke (it’s easy, as he sits right in front of me), and he gave me the answer on a silver platter.

Post has a happy end - we were able to migrate files and attach to a node!

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