Unity Script Reference – AssetDatabase

AssetDatabase

An Interface for accessing assets and performing operations on assets.

Note: This is an editor class. To use it you have to place your script in Assets/Editor inside your project folder. Editor classes are in the UnityEditor namespace so for C# scripts you need to add "using UnityEditor;" at the beginning of the script.

Class Functions

Contains	Is object an asset?
CreateFolder	Create a new folder.
IsMainAsset	Is asset a main asset in the project window?
IsSubAsset	Is asset a sub asset?
GenerateUniqueAssetPath	Creates a new unique path for an asset.
StartAssetEditing	Begin Asset importing. This lets you group several asset imports together into one larger import.
StopAssetEditing	Stop Asset importing. This lets you group several asset imports together into one larger import.
ValidateMoveAsset	Checks if an asset file can be moved from one folder to another. (Without actually moving the file)
MoveAsset	Move an asset file from one folder to another.
RenameAsset	Rename an asset file.
MoveAssetToTrash	Moves the asset at path to the trash.
DeleteAsset	Deletes the asset file at path.
ImportAsset	Import asset at path.
CopyAsset	Duplicates the asset at path and stores it at newPath
WriteImportSettingsIfDirty	Writes the import settings to disk.
CreateAsset	Creates a new asset at path.
AddObjectToAsset	Adds objectToAdd to an existing asset at path.
GetAssetPath	Returns the path name relative to the project folder where the asset is stored
GetAssetOrScenePath	Returns the path name relative to the project folder where the asset is stored
GetTextMetaDataPathFromAssetPath	Gets the path to the text .meta file associasted with an asset
LoadAssetAtPath	Returns the first asset object of type type at given path assetPath.
LoadMainAssetAtPath	Returns the main asset object at assetPath.
LoadAllAssetRepresentationsAtPath	Returns all asset representations at assetPath.
LoadAllAssetsAtPath	Returns an array of all asset objects at assetPath.
Refresh	Import any changed assets.
OpenAsset	Opens the asset with associated application.
AssetPathToGUID	Get the GUID for the asset at path
GUIDToAssetPath	Translate a GUID to its current asset path
SaveAssets	Writes all unsaved asset changes to disk.
GetCachedIcon	Retrieves an icon for the asset at the given asset path.
SetLabels	Replaces that list of labels on an asset.
GetLabels	Returns all labels attached to a given asset.
ClearLabels	Removes all labels attached to an asset.
GetDependencies	Given an asset pathName, returns the list of all assets it depends on.
ExportPackage	Exports the assets identified by assetPathNames to a unitypackage file in fileName.
ImportPackage	Imports package at packagePath into the current project.
IsOpenForEdit	Use IsOpenForEdit to determine if the asset is open for edit by the version control.