Repetitive Copying to Network Folders

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Repetitive Copying to Network Folders

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I use TC at work and often need to copy files to the same locations on many users' Windows 7 machines. I was wondering if it is possible to use TC to simplify this by having the source files selected in, say, the left panel and the C: drive of a user's machine in the right panel. Then, given that the folder structure on my machine is identical to that on the users' machines, I would want to jump to the same folder on the user's machine (right panel) as the one on my machine (left panel) without having to manually navigate through the user's file structure each time.

To try to make this clearer, please see the example below.
On my machine, the files might be in these folders:
1) My Machine\C$\Program Files (x86)\FolderA\
2) My Machine\C$\Program Files\FolderB\
3) My Machine\C$\Users\<MyName>\AppData\Roaming\FolderC\

and on the user's machine I would want to copy files in the above folders to the exact same folders:
1) Users Machine\C$\Program Files (x86)\FolderA\
2) Users Machine\C$\Program Files\FolderB\
3) Users Machine\C$\Users\<UsersName>\AppData\Roaming\FolderC\
What I currently do is save each user's root C:\ drive in the Directory Hotlist (Ctrl+D) and then from this location (for each user) I manually navigate through the folders until I reach the desired target folder (1, 2 or 3). This becomes very time consuming when there are many users to service.
I realise that I could set up three locations for each user in a Directory Hotlist (Ctrl+D) but that seems like an awful lot of links to create. Is there a better way to achieve this using TC?

Many thanks for any help anyone can offer.
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Post by *ghisler(Author) »

1. Create a link file (*.lnk) for each target directory with Ctrl+Shift+F5
2. Put these links all in the same folder, e.g. c:\linktargets
3. Select the links in one panel of TC
4. Select the files/dirs to be copied in the other
5. Press F5
6. Click "Options"
7. Check to copy to all selected dirs/links
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Re: Repetitive Copying to Network Folders

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JRVM wrote:Then, given that the folder structure on my machine is identical to that on the users' machines, I would want to jump to the same folder on the user's machine (right panel) as the one on my machine (left panel) without having to manually navigate through the user's file structure each time.
Execute cm_SyncChangeDir.
TOTALCMD.CHM page: What's new in this version? wrote:New functions in Commander 5.00:

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- Internal command cm_SyncChangeDir makes Commander change to the directory of the same name also in the other window
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Post by *JRVM »

Thank you both for your speedy replies. In my situation, the solution proposed by Ghisler seems the most appropriate.
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