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Post by Boomzilla on Feb 20, 2020 12:15:43 GMT -5
On my Windows 10 music server, I have a drive that is my media storage. I want to back up that drive to another external drive that already contains the vast majority of files on the Win-10 drive. But the file structures on the two drives are different.
Therefore, if I ask any standard copy program to copy the files from the Win-10 drive to the external drive, I'm told that the destination drive doesn't have enough space.
What I want is a program that will look for the files (independently of the folder structure) and copy only those files that the Win-10 drive has but the destination drive doesn't.
Anyone know of such a program?
Thanks - Boomzilla
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Post by knucklehead on Feb 20, 2020 13:09:29 GMT -5
There is no easy way to eliminate duplicates in Windows 10, and I don't know of any third party software than can do this. Now, if you had Linux (I have Linux Mint ATM) you can load a program called fslint. www.tecmint.com/fslint-find-and-remove-duplicate-unwanted-files-in-linux/If you know someone that has a Linux OS you might ask if they'll download fslint onto their machine and run the copy/delete program for you. If you have a spare drive why not load Linux on it? You never know, you could get hooked. Linux Mint is very familiar to anyone that uses Window. The GUI is quite similar. Linux can read just about any file format, unlike Windows, which requires third party software to view and massage Linux partitions. If you load Linux on a hard drive you will have the option to format that drive with NTFS (windows) or EXT4, which is the Linux default format. It will happily load onto an NTFS drive if that's what you want, but it will be very slightly slower. |
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Post by vcautokid on Feb 20, 2020 23:21:49 GMT -5
Yeah Linux is the way. I second this one what knucklehead said. I am still wanting to build a Linux music server. I hate Windows but I race with the devil everyday in IT.
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Post by Boomzilla on Feb 21, 2020 7:52:34 GMT -5
I'm told that the Windows equivalent to Linux "Flist" is called "Foldermatch." I haven't tried it yet, but it seems promising.
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Post by KeithL on Feb 21, 2020 9:58:59 GMT -5
With most "advanced copy programs", if a file that you're trying to copy already exists at the destination, you will be prompted whether you wish to keep the original, or overwrite it with the new one. Most of them will offer options like "overwrite", "skip", "keep newer file"....
Many also offer options that determine future behavior, like "overwrite all" and "skip all"...
I use a file manager that includes this sort of copy options... along with a lot of other advanced functions... and which I highly recommend... (It's shareware... but it doesn't force you to buy it.)
Another really excellent, and very advanced, copy program is Teracopy... (Teracopy is just a copy program... and is available for both Windows and Mac... I've used the Windows version.)
I've never seen a program that is smart enough to ignore the redundancy in required space copying files...
But many, including ABCommander, will allow you to easily tag the files and folders you wish to copy, and ignore the ones that aren't tagged...
I'm told that the Windows equivalent to Linux "Flist" is called "Foldermatch." I haven't tried it yet, but it seems promising. |
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Post by Boomzilla on Feb 21, 2020 12:02:49 GMT -5
With most "advanced copy programs", if a file that you're trying to copy already exists at the destination, you will be prompted whether you wish to keep the original, or overwrite it with the new one. I think that this is true ONLY if the folder structures are identical. If the folders are not identical, then most copy programs consider an identical file in a different folder to be DIFFERENT, and you'll get NO warning. Instead, the "advanced copy program" will create a new folder structure on the destination disc (identical to the folder structure on the source disc) and then duplicate all files whether an identical file already exists somewhere else on the destination disc or not. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2020 14:40:27 GMT -5
Boom, some 3rd party "sync" programs can accomplish what you're trying to do.
I've used "Allway Sync" (free) to combine multi-disc files into a new destination folder.(fat32)
It's been a couple of years since I used it, but I had files from Windows, Linux & files from my Escient Server HDD recovery folder and copied them to fat32 formatted disc.
Any OS file system can read fat32.
It can find duplicates with a plugin if I remember.
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