Quick way to search and replace a known file?

pingmustard · Post by *pingmustard » 2014-03-18, 19:09 UTC

We have duplicate copies of a file in our deployed system. From time to time, a bug is found and we need to get all instance of the file replaced with a new version.

Is there a quick way to do this? In the past, I've just searched for the specific DLL, and then just resorted to manual copy/paste. However, when there's ~30 instance of the dll out there, it's a bit of a pain to do manually.

Post by *petermad » 2014-03-18, 19:29 UTC

You can do the following:

1. Do a search for the specific DLL file.
2: Feed the search result to listbox.
3. Mark all the files in listbox.
4. From the oposite panel choose the new DLL file and press F5.
5. In the copy dialog check the "Copy to all selected folders/links in the target panel"
6. Press OK and accept to "Overwrite all" in the warning dialog.

MVV · Post by *MVV » 2014-03-18, 19:55 UTC

AFAIK it only works if folders or LNKs are selected, it has no effect on selected files.

Horst.Epp · Post by *Horst.Epp » 2014-03-18, 20:06 UTC

MVV wrote:AFAIK it only works if folders or LNKs are selected, it has no effect on selected files.

The options text is wrong, it works also with selected files.
Tested with TC 8.51b3 x64

Post by *petermad » 2014-03-18, 20:38 UTC

Tested with TC 8.51b3 x64

So did I before I wrote my previous post.

MVV · Post by *MVV » 2014-03-19, 05:59 UTC

I tried it again and it doesn't replace any selected in target panel files. Yesterday I've tried with regular panel, now I tried it with search results panel. None of selected files in a target panel were modified, and no warnings was shown, TC simply copes source file into folders where target files located. In this particular case with same file names it may work but it won't if filenames are different.

Horst.Epp · Post by *Horst.Epp » 2014-03-19, 09:01 UTC

MVV wrote:I tried it again and it doesn't replace any selected in target panel files. Yesterday I've tried with regular panel, now I tried it with search results panel. None of selected files in a target panel were modified, and no warnings was shown, TC simply copes source file into folders where target files located. In this particular case with same file names it may work but it won't if filenames are different.

The topic is to replace identical named files !
Of course it doesn't override other files in the target dirs.
But how should there other named files if the search was for a specific file name.

Post by *petermad » 2014-03-19, 17:24 UTC

2MVV

I tried it again and it doesn't replace any selected in target panel files.

Try again - it seems to me that you forget to check the option: "Copy to all selected folders/links in the target panel" in the bottom of the Copy dialog...?

It works both to a Feed-to-lisbox panel and to a Branch view panel.

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2014-03-19, 20:34 UTC

I would create LNK files to the directories where these files are - you need to do this only once, then you can use "Copy to all selected folders/links in the target panel" every time. I use this myself to copy new translations to 4 different places.

Post by *white » 2014-03-20, 08:52 UTC

ghisler(Author) wrote:I would create LNK files to the directories where these files are - you need to do this only once, then you can use "Copy to all selected folders/links in the target panel" every time. I use this myself to copy new translations to 4 different places.

Instead of making additional shortcuts it would be far better to use "download lists" for that. People have asked for these Total Commander batch files regularly. Can you please make the use of this more user friendly. For example make it so we can execute these "download lists" by double clicking a download list or implement an internal command with parameter so we can use a button etc. to launch it.