# Batch process cold vault operations

Due to the disconnected nature of a cold vault, any accounts, transactions, or manifests you create in a cold vault have a status of `Pending`. You must export these pending operations from the cold vault and import them for processing.

To export and import data to and from the cold vault:

1. Navigate to **Administration > Vaults**.
2. Click the cold vault.
3. In the **Pending operations** tab, choose between the following options:
  - To export the pending operations, click **Export operations**.  Ripple Custody downloads the operations as a `.dat` file for you to manually import to the cold vault.
  - To import operations from the cold vault, click **Import operations** and then select a `.dat` file. Ripple Custody executes the operations in the file.