File . 'Move' - Program Help
This is the context specific help for Find Files N Replace for function Move. It will be show when Shift+F1 is pressed after using menu item Move on menu "File".
It can also be shown using menu item Help for Last Function on menu "Help".
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'Move' - Program Help start.
[Or Copy]
To move or copy files or directories:
1. Select the files/directories to be copied.
2. Choose Move or Copy from the file menu.
3. Enter the destination directory name or file name (mask).
4. Press OK to Check space.
5. Files will now be copied. You will be asked about files to be replaced.
6. K-free will pause every n items if option set.
7. Check what has been done on status bar and file list.
1. Select the files/directories to be copied.
All Items Selected in the Current Section will be copied (or moved).
The Current Section is the part (directory tree, file list or text) which has a white background.
To change the section, press tab or click on the section required.
Items Selected depends on Current Section.
. When the current section is directory tree - the directory selected is actioned.
. When the current section is file list - the files and/or directories selected in blue and marked with * will be actioned.. If no files are selected in blue, the files selected in green will be actioned.
. When the current section is the text section - the file currently displayed will be actioned.
ALTERNATIVE METHOD:
Selected Files can also be dragged onto a directory using the mouse to start Move/Copy.
Drop files on any directory in the file/directory tree of the same or another window.
Or drop on the file list section of a single directory list to copy/move to that directory.
2. Choose Move or Copy from the file menu.
On the confirm Move/Copy screen you can switch between Move and Copy.
For drag-drop, Move/Copy will be set according to option selected on Options: Copy/Move Misc [Action when drag/drop].
3. Enter the destination directory name or file name (mask).
When only a single file is selected, just enter the name of the new file.
Subdirectory names can also be added in format subdir1\subdir2\filename.type
Any subdirectories that do not yet exist will be created.
To copy to a subdirectory of the (first) directory listed just enter the subdirectory name [followed by a \ when only one file is selected].
Note that a directory will be copied to a new directory with the same subdirectory name as the old directory.
E.g. 1. Copy C:\Notes.TXT to abc will copy file Notes.TXT to file C:\abc
E.g. 2. Copy C:\temp\ to abc will create directory C:\abc\temp\ and copy all files in C:\temp to directory C:\abc\temp\
E.g. 3. Copy C:\temp\, C:\Notes.TXT to C:\abc\ will create directory C:\abc\temp\ and copy all files in C:\temp to directory C:\abc\temp\ File Notes.TXT will be copied to directory C:\abc\
To add a prefix and or suffix to the file name and/or type of each file enter the new file name type with *-notation.
E.g. Copy File1.txt, File2, File3.doc to "cpy * 10-12.X*" will create files "cpy file1 10-12.Xtxt", "cpy file2 10-12.X", "cpy file3 10-12.Xdoc"
NB Changing the file type will mean that files will not automatically be associated with application(s) used for starting them. For example Select action from associations will no longer present word, wordpad, etc for a document that has been renamed from a.doc to a.xdoc
Directory / file (mask) entered are remembered for each subsequent use of Move/Copy from file menu. Separate values are remembered for each of Move/Copy. They will not be overwritten when you use drag/drop.
TIP: This provides a useful way to collect a group of files into a single directory.
a. select the directory to which files are to be copied in the directory tree and press C to copy the path and file name to the clipboard.
b. Select the first file to be copied and press Alt, then F, then C
c. Press Shift+Insert to copy the clipboard (Directory name) as destination path ("To").
d. Then press enter to copy this file.
e. Now you can select each other file to be copied, press alt FC and then enter.
4. Press OK to Check space.
If there is insufficient space or you will use more than the % of space [Options: Copy/Move Misc] for which a warning is requested, you will be warned about a possible space problem before the copy/move is started.
Space needed can be displayed always on the confirm copy/move screen by pressing Space. Whether space is shown or not is remembered for subsequent uses of Move/Copy.
Free Space on all drives can be listed using the Free Space button.
5. Files will now be copied. You will be asked about files to be replaced.
If a file to be created already exists you will be asked what should be done [unless one of options to process automatically / always has been set].
For quick/easy comparison the screen will display a message if the files have the same size and/or timestamp.
Possibilities include
- replace file [Yes]
- skip that file but continue with other files/directories selected [No]
- stop copy/move [Cancel]
- rename either old or new file.
If you select rename, a new name for either old or new file will be created automatically.
TIP:
1. Use "Rename (Old .." when replacing any existing file with a new version to keep a backup of the old version in the same directory.
2. Use "Rename (New) All" when copying a directory and you want to be sure you copy all files as well as keeping all the existing files. This may cause there to be two files with identical contents but you will be sure no files are overwritten by mistake.
3. Use "Skip this screen .. when .. same Date/Size" to put a group of files in the same directory without copying files that have the same timestamp, size AND name as a file already in the directory. NB It is possible to create two files with the same timestamp, exactly the same size and the same name which are different. No check is done on the contents of the file with this option.
You can choose to take the same action for all files (i.e. Yes To All/No To All/Rename To All) or take the same action always without a prompt.
NB Selecting option "Always" means that files will be replaced [YES] or ignored [NO] or renamed whenever Copy/Move are used in the future without any further message. To avoid undesired loss of data with this option a warning that the option is set will be show when it is first used in a session and then once every 10, 20 or 60 minutes after that when move/copy is requested. You can enter any number of minutes as the frequency of the
If any option "Always" is selected it can be turned off using Options: Copy/Move Replace & Recycle
6. K-free will pause every n items if option set.
If the option is checked on Options: Misc, K-free will pause after processing the number of files entered in options and ask whether to continue with other selected files.
This option is available to make it easy to stop an action which is causing a problem on each file when a large number of files are selected.
If Yes is pressed, a further group of n files are processed and this continue-confirmation screen is displayed again.
If No is pressed, all files are processed without further confirmations being required.
Cancel will stop the current action.
NB:
K-free will only pause for Move/Copy/Delete if BOTH the general option to pause AND the option to pause for Move/Copy/Delete are checked.
7. Check what has been done on status bar and file list.
Progress will be shown if Show Progress Indicator in Status Bar (Windows menu) is checked.
Percentage done shown here is % of total bytes copied/moved.
Total number of files moved/copied will be shown in List of results if Show List of results in Status Bar (Windows menu) is checked.
Press stop button on status bar (if shown) or Esc key to Interrupt the move/copy.
In the list of results the total number of files/directories copied/moved will be shown. Select the line in the list and press enter to see a list of files/directories that were selected for copy and for which the copy was started.
In this list individual files selected for copy will be shown. The list does NOT include all files in any directories selected.
A directory which was only partly deleted before you pressed Stop will be included on the list with **INCOMPLETE** shown after the directory name. The number of subdirectories of that final directory which are incomplete will also in the message.
Files/directories shown on file list will be updated on each window when move/copy is complete unless option to Update File List (File Menu) for that window is unchecked.
Options are also available to automatically refresh file list after move/copy/delete. See Options: Copy/Move Misc.
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