Copying Lots of Files

Origin · 19 Apr 2006 at 20:23

I currently have 60Gb of data on one of my hard drives, on an external USB drive I have 94Gb of data but 60Gb of that is the same as what is on the other drive. Is there any way I can copy the new/missing data from the USB drive without just going "yes to all" when Windows pops up and says files already exist?

Hope this makes sense.

Thanks

benjo · 19 Apr 2006 at 20:36

If you mean you dont want to overwrite the original stuff, then cant you just copy it over to a different location?

csmager · 19 Apr 2006 at 20:39

benjo said:
If you mean you dont want to overwrite the original stuff, then cant you just copy it over to a different location?

I think the point is that it's a bit daft copying over a load of data that already exists just to merge in some new stuff.

Take a look at something like Beyond Compare. It works out what's in each folder, and what needs copying to one to make it the same as the other.

Tomsk · 19 Apr 2006 at 21:06

I use ViceVersa for my backups. It should do what you want.

Origin · 19 Apr 2006 at 21:11

Thanks guys. Will take a look at both of those.