Hi, I am sort of a newbie to Opus...I have done multiple back ups of my pc hard drive to an external drive. These back ups are in different folders dated. Is there a way that I can merge say.....3 or 4 seperate folders at a time of "my pictures" as an example? I do not want to just copy because I may lose some of the files. So I thought "merge" would be a good way of putting it. Thanks for any help you have to offer.
If there is a way....could you give me some details as well. Thanks!!
Not sure I understand exactly what you want to do. Merge in what way? Why would copying potentially lose some of the files?
Maybe because of identical names for differing files, like names from a digital camera that are always in the same numbering manner after the data card was cleared? So she perhaps asks for not overwriting files with the same name, but creating unique names & keeping all files?
OK..I will try.......I have back up dated 02.09 of "MY Pictures" and another folder dated 03.09 and another dated 04.09. They each have different folders in them with pictures in each folder and it could be 50 folders. Sometimes, and I cannot remember when, I would put the new files into these folders and sometimes I just put everything. I can never just copy the "My Pictures" folder because I know that I would lose files and subfolders. If I copy the folders, I have to sit and click skip or replace on each file and it takes forever. Is there some way to merge the folders with criteria that would allow me to not sit and click on each picture? I hope this makes more sense.
Yes, just use Skip All (or Replace All). When the first conflict comes up, click on the arrow on the right of the Skip button and a menu will appear with further options.
(You can also quickly change the button into Skip All by holding down shift and clicking it normally. The label will change as soon as you hold Shift. Ctrl and Alt also access other options from the menu.)
If it's something you do a lot then you could create a special toolbar button (or menu item or hotkey) which runs this command:
Copy WHENEXISTS=skipUsing that button would automatically skip all file-names that already exist without even prompting you for the first one.
(In other situations you might want to automatically rename any conflicting files. You can use WHENEXISTS=rename or WHENEXISTS=renameold for that.)