FR: Dynamically Allocated, Fixed Sized File Collections

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Bear with me here ..

The idea here is that you could perform a COPY TO FILE COLLECTION on a folder and all its contents. You set a fixed size for the File Collection (say 4.34GB) and new File Collections are created on the fly as you fill the last one up.

So, you have a folder packed with well organized, well filed MP3s. Let's say about 14GB of them.

You select the folder and click COPY TO FILE COLLECTION. A dialog box opens up and asks for the size of the File Collection, Base name, how to increment, etc. Much like a rename operation. You hit okay, and in our example here, we get 4 x 4.34 (technically the last one is smaller than that, but you get the idea) named MP3_DVD_BACKUP_01, MP3_DVD_BACKUP_02, etc.

A quick trip to ImgBurn and you can now back those File Collections up perfectly - one per disc without the guesswork.

That's it ...

Anytime I'm thinking about features that Dopus should have, I ask myself: "Should this be a file system level feature?" Normally, I'd say no in this case - however, the File Collection system itself BEGS to be used this way in conjunction with the excellent file management features of Dopus as it is.

Are there tools out there that will do this for you? Absolutely. There are also FTP programs, renaming tools, tagging tools, metadata manipulation tools, dedicated file COPY tools - so I don't find this sort of request outside the range of a "reasonable feature" :slight_smile:

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This thread may help you accomplish this for now.
[url]Automate organizing data into specific sized folders...?]

It's not quite what you asked for yet, but to start converting it to that,
it's not much more than a simple matter of replacing the PHP mkdir command with a exec call to Dopusrt.exe to make a new collection
and changing the copy code after the dopusrt.exe command. Of course, that's oversimplified, but it shouldn't be all that difficult to do.

This was written 5 1/2 years ago and I don't use it so there may be bugs in it. I wrote it just to see if I could do it . :slight_smile:
The download button is at the bottom of that old thread, and instructions on how to use it are mixed in the thread.