diff --git a/src/createBuildConfigs.ts b/src/createBuildConfigs.ts
index b53bdee54..261c4f755 100644
--- a/src/createBuildConfigs.ts
+++ b/src/createBuildConfigs.ts
@@ -35,9 +35,9 @@ export async function createBuildConfigs(
   );
 
   return await Promise.all(
-    allInputs.map(async (options: TsdxOptions) => {
+    allInputs.map(async (options: TsdxOptions, index: number) => {
       // pass the full rollup config to tsdx.config.js override
-      const config = await createRollupConfig(options);
+      const config = await createRollupConfig(options, index);
       return tsdxConfig.rollup(config, options);
     })
   );
diff --git a/src/createRollupConfig.ts b/src/createRollupConfig.ts
index eedc7dd5b..a06f5df24 100644
--- a/src/createRollupConfig.ts
+++ b/src/createRollupConfig.ts
@@ -24,7 +24,8 @@ const errorCodeOpts = {
 let shebang: any = {};
 
 export async function createRollupConfig(
-  opts: TsdxOptions
+  opts: TsdxOptions,
+  outputNum: number
 ): Promise<RollupOptions> {
   const findAndRecordErrorCodes = await extractErrors({
     ...errorCodeOpts,
@@ -170,6 +171,10 @@ export async function createRollupConfig(
           compilerOptions: {
             // TS -> esnext, then leave the rest to babel-preset-env
             target: 'esnext',
+            // don't output declarations more than once
+            ...(outputNum > 0
+              ? { declaration: false, declarationMap: false }
+              : {}),
           },
         },
         check: !opts.transpileOnly,
diff --git a/src/deprecated.ts b/src/deprecated.ts
index 275caadb8..41319cdcc 100644
--- a/src/deprecated.ts
+++ b/src/deprecated.ts
@@ -21,27 +21,14 @@ export async function moveTypes() {
     '[tsdx]: Your rootDir is currently set to "./". Please change your ' +
       'rootDir to "./src".\n' +
       'TSDX has deprecated setting tsconfig.compilerOptions.rootDir to ' +
-      '"./" as it caused buggy output for declarationMaps and occassionally ' +
-      'for type declarations themselves.\n' +
+      '"./" as it caused buggy output for declarationMaps and more.\n' +
       'You may also need to change your include to remove "test", which also ' +
       'caused declarations to be unnecessarily created for test files.'
   );
 
-  try {
-    // Move the typescript types to the base of the ./dist folder
-    await fs.copy(appDistSrc, paths.appDist, {
-      overwrite: true,
-    });
-  } catch (err) {
-    // ignore errors about the destination dir already existing or files not
-    // existing as those always occur for some reason, re-throw any other
-    // unexpected failures
-    // NOTE: these errors mean that sometimes files don't get moved properly,
-    // meaning that it's buggy / unreliable (see console.warn above)
-    if (err.code !== 'EEXIST' && err.code !== 'ENOENT') {
-      throw err;
-    }
-  }
-
+  // Move the typescript types to the base of the ./dist folder
+  await fs.copy(appDistSrc, paths.appDist, {
+    overwrite: true,
+  });
   await fs.remove(appDistSrc);
 }
diff --git a/src/index.ts b/src/index.ts
index b5d8254d6..bcc53c17f 100755
--- a/src/index.ts
+++ b/src/index.ts
@@ -401,11 +401,13 @@ prog
           async (inputOptions: RollupOptions & { output: OutputOptions }) => {
             let bundle = await rollup(inputOptions);
             await bundle.write(inputOptions.output);
-            await deprecated.moveTypes();
           }
         )
         .catch((e: any) => {
           throw e;
+        })
+        .then(async () => {
+          await deprecated.moveTypes();
         });
       logger(promise, 'Building modules');
       await promise;