New "time range" option when overwriting files/dir

[Tass]

I would love to have the option to select a date/time range for overwriting files when you copy files.

I was overwriting thousand of files yesterday from a backup because the originals had been corrupted by a virus, and knew exactly the time range of the corrupted files, so having the option to select a range would have allowed me to copy the whole directory knowing that the thousand of files modified by users and not the virus (different time range) wouldn't be overwriten.

[MVV]

You can find files with desired range (using Advanced tab of Find dialog) or outside some range (using Plugins tab and conditions like tc.writedate > some date AND/OR tc.writedate < some date) and then feed results to listbox and copy to another panel using CopyTree plugin (in order to keep directory structure).

[Tass]

Thanks MVV, but i think that won't work in my case. I'm copying files from "previous versions" panel in Windows, from a snapshot in a NetAPP cabin. So I can't get into the snapshot in a TC panel, I have to open it in a normal Windows Explorer and then drag the folder over the corrupted folder on a TC Panel, so I get the TC overwrite options.

As a workaround I could use the TC adv search to pass the bad files to the file list and then delete them all, after that, make the snapshot copy without overwrite, but that have other cons that would be solved by an overwrite adv filter

[MVV]

Maybe you can add a step and copy files first to some temporary folder and then copy them to destination dir within TC?

[Tass]

Maybe you can add a step and copy files first to some temporary folder and then copy them to destination dir within TC?

Yep, that would be the normal operation, but last time I had to recover nearly 50.000 files on dirs containing zillions of files <.<