Copying filenames - batch processing

[ic1male]

Here's the setup. Windows 8. Two hard disk drives. Contain exactly the same files for backup purposes. However, I've just spent some time correcting the file names on disk 1. I could go and do them on disk 2 but I don't want to as it took ages.

So, is there a way somehow of taking all the filenames of the files in a folder on disk 1 and copying/pasting them to the files on disk 2? All the files are in the same order so there would be no mix up.

You could say it might be easier to copy them again but 600GB over USB2 takes many hours.

 

[ic1male]

NM. I did it.

I found a utility called Bulk Rename Utility which supports importing file names via a text file.

So I renamed all the files on disk 2 just as numbers 1 to n.
Then use dir /b >list.txt to get the right file names from disk 1. Then the longest bit is just adding 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. in notepad to the list.txt file and importing that into the utility. Excellent.

 

[ic1male]

I wouldn't even have done that. Import the text document to excel, auto number a column before the filenames, then concatenate and spit the third colum out to a text file!

I haven't got Excel. I tried it in Google Docs but it's not as flexible. You can only output as Tab delimited or Comma delimited. There are commas in the filename so that is out and I can't find a way to remove the Tab marker in notepad using Find/Replace.