Total Commander

captjlddavis · Junior Member Joined: 09 Feb 2003 Posts: 65

Good day to all.

Running win98se - Mozilla 1.5f

When Icopy from the mail directory I can edit the target filename.
e.g.

Copy "Misc_Received" to

C:\temp\Old_Misc_Received

And it will copy correctly.

If I try and select two files in the source directory:
"drafts" and "important"

I get:

Copy (2) files to

C:\temp\*.* - (I Edit to read "C:\temp\old_*.*)

And the resulting target files are:

"old_rtant" and "old_ts"

I know I can Multi rename prior to copying.

I seem to recall this working in previous TC.

Any assistance appreciated.

regards:cptjlddavis

sqa_wizard · Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2003 2:18 pm Post subject:

I can reproduce it, it replaces the characters and do not append.
But behaviour is the same as 5.51 ...
_________________
#5767 Personal license

captjlddavis · Junior Member Joined: 09 Feb 2003 Posts: 65

sqa_wizard
Thank you for your reply.

I could very well be wrong about previous ability to do this.

Perhaps I was not very clear, I do not want to append the file ( although that might be a good idea) I just wanted to copy existing source files to another directory under a different name:

"Drafts" to "old_Drafts"
"important" to "old_important"
etc.

Thank you again.

regards:captjlddavis

captjlddavis · Junior Member Joined: 09 Feb 2003 Posts: 65

Mark up another one for Christian:

The multi-copy/options/auto-rename accomplishes what I need -
Copies file to target directory and adds a [#] reference if file with the same name exists and does not overwrite.

Thanks again for a great program.

regards:captjlddavis

Boofo · Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2003 8:41 pm Post subject:

Is there a way to set this up in the Start menu or a button to copy the TC ini files to a backup dir and not overwrite the ones already there? Like maybe wincmd-11-03-2003.ini or something like that? Or do I have to do this with a bat file?

captjlddavis · Junior Member Joined: 09 Feb 2003 Posts: 65

Boofo,

Perhaps someone with more expertize than I can help you.

I would think a .bat file would be the approach if TC can not do it.

I was refering to Multi-copy command. not individual file copy.

Sorry

regards:captjlddavis

Boofo · Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2003 9:03 pm Post subject:

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, anyway. Wink

Any DOS experts out there willing to help with a bat file for this? Wink

captjlddavis · Junior Member Joined: 09 Feb 2003 Posts: 65

Boofo,

I am sure that others will have a solution from within TC.
This simple batch file will copy the wincmd.ini file to a destination of your choice. You may have to edit the source to reflect the location of your .ini file
and edit the target directory.

Boofo · Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2003 12:49 am Post subject:

I run Win XP Pro SP1 and it didn't work for me. It made a file named {a}.bat (62 bytes) and a file named {t}.bat (0 bytes). Sad

captjlddavis · Junior Member Joined: 09 Feb 2003 Posts: 65

Boofo,

Sorry 'bout that, I know nothing about XP (pro or otherwise) perhaps you can find the correct syntax someplace. But this should give you a starting point.

regards:captjlddavis

Boofo · Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2003 1:09 am Post subject:

I found the syntax at a couple of places but none that will do the date of anything in the filename. Is there an easy way to just take wincmd.ini and save it as wincmd-11-27-2003.ini for instance? That would be enough, I think.

captjlddavis · Junior Member Joined: 09 Feb 2003 Posts: 65

Boofo,

F5 and edit target name.

regards:captjlddavis

Coco · Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2003 2:01 am Post subject:

echo set date=%%4
set bkpdir=c:\win_bak\
set where="%bkpdir%wincmd_%date%.ini"
xcopy "c:\program files\totalcmd\wincmd.ini" %where% /q /i /-y
_________________
Alain

Boofo · Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2003 2:42 am Post subject:

Coco · Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2003 3:25 am Post subject:

Hi Boofo,

This is because your date setting in windows is set to something like MM/d/yyyy

if you change the / by - it should work.
_________________
Alain