Mass Moving sub-directory files between different trees

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I'm having a challenge trying to figure out whether or not Dopus10 has any capability to mass move files between 2 different hierarchal tree branches...

I have a source directory like this:

C:\baseballplayers\2012[team-name][player-name]

There are dozens of values for [team-name], and each team has dozens of different [player-name]s. In each players folder is a particular file I'm interested in, say "player-stats.xls" (every player has a file with this exact same undifferentiated name).

My destination folder is almost identical to the source folder, except that the year value is changed:

c:\baseballplayers\2013[team-name][player-name]

My destination player-name sub-folders for this new 2013 branch do not yet contain the file player-stats.xls. I want to do either a mass-move, or a mass-copy (in one operation) and bring over all of the "player-stats.xls" files from their 2012 source subdirectories over to their comparable 2013 subdirectories. I don't care about testing for exceptions, etc.

With dozens of teams, dozens of players each, I'm looking at hundreds of sub-directories. I have to automate this copy/move... I can't do this manually.

The three dopus standard query types Find, Synchronize, Duplicate Files may be usable to find my source files, but after this, I don't see any way to do an ordered move/copy of these files over to their intended destination.

Can dopus handle this... or do I need to look for an alternative instead?

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Easiest way:
[ul][li]Browse to the 2012 folder in one file display and the 2013 folder in the other.[/li]
[li]In the 2012 folder, select FlatView - Mixed No Folders[/li]
[li]Use the filter bar to filter the files you want to copy (e.g. type *player-stats.xls into the file display)[/li]
[li]Select All, then click Copy[/li]
[li]Choose "Recreate" when Opus prompts you how you want to copy the files[/li][/ul]

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The first 3 or 4 suggested steps work OK... but I can't locate any copy command that offers me a "Recreate" option...

After I Select All... which "Copy" should I click? My Choice:

  • pop-up menu via the right mouse button - this just gives me a system success sound, no options...

  • dopus menu Edit/Copy - same system success sound, no options...

  • the dopus Copy Files button brings up the File Filter, but there's nothing here that looks like "Recreate"...

I'm stuck on these last steps... What am I missing?

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Copy Files button, and the filter only comes up if you have it turned on - turn it off from the drop down under the Copy Files button.