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Just posting a question/answer from IRC so it can be found here in the forum as well...

I am looking for a way to move a custom field from one group to another, but I can't find a way to do so in the civicrm interface. I did find the class CRM_Custom_Form_MoveField in CRM/Custom/Form/MoveField.php. From conversations on IRC is looks like this functionality is a work in progress as of 3.4/4.0, but might appear in future versions.

The alternate is to move the field directly in MySQL by modifying custom_group_id in the civicrm_custom_field table for the row/Custom Field you would like to move, creating the database fields in the structure of civicrm_custom_value_xxx table and then actually migrating the data from one custom_value table to the other.