Greetings

I'm a newbie user in Solidworks Professional 2025 SP0.0 and am creating assemblies.

Now I am done with the assembly but would like to alter a copy of the assembly, whether it is altering parts or altering mates in the assembly, I don't want to break the original! Therefore I would prefer a copy that is not linked to the original.

What is the proper procedure for copying an entire assembly and all of its parts into a new sub-directory somewhere so that I can have two versions that are not linked in any way?

select all > make independent?