Synchronize Directories -> use Teracopy

[DRP535]

Anyone know if it's possible to forward the copy command that comes out of a Synchronize Directories inquiry to an integrated Teracopy installation?

I use the Synchronize Dir function regularly as a manual data backup process to a portable USB 3.0 hard drive. Sometimes the difference between the directories is substantial rather than incremental, and the use of Teracopy to do the transfer would be a significant time advantage.

[ghisler(Author)]

No, I don't think that this is possible. Teracopy would have to intercept the call to CopyFileExW function.

[DRP535]

Thanks for reply Christian. Just a thought was all. Merry Christmas.

[Hacker]

Chistian,
Perhaps there could be a sort of "Export" button in Synchronize Dirs that would let us export the list of the files that would be copied if we clicked the Synchronize button? A simple list with a Source -> Destination pairing that could be processed by a script, e.g.:

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C:\Data\File.txt * D:\Backup\File.txt
C:\Data\Document.docx * D:\Backup\Document.docx
C:\Data\Presentation.pptx * D:\Backup\Presentation.pptx

Or, even better, a simple input field where we could add a template, for the above case:

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[Source] * [Destination]

Say we want to create a batch file, it could look like this:

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copy /b "[Source]" "[Destination]"

Or for AutoHotkey:

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FileCopy, [Source], [Destination]

etc.

Roman