Despite being a long time (Very) user of Directory Opus I'll admit I doubt if I know more that 10% of its capabilities however it's never let me down over the last 15+ years and I've always managed to find a solution that ensures that DO saves my day, until now, so my first posting for help:
I thought todays task would be easy but it's flummoxed me, so maybe somebody can kindly help or and I hope not, tell me it's just not possible.
I have 2 folders one on each of 2 physical drives, each folder contains a large number (1000+) subfolders each of which contains several very large files, say:
X:\Master
Y:\Backup
If I search for duplicates (filename only not size or extension) I get a large list showing resulting files on each of the drives. I then use the select button to select all the "duplicate" files on the Y drive. So far so good.
Now I want to MOVE not copy, as this would take days) all of these selected files to another folder on the Y drive, say Y:\Dupes recreating their folder structure, when I try it dumps all the files in Y:\Dupes and ignores the subfolders.
Is this possible and if so can somebody be kind enough to explain how I resolve it
Thanks for getting back quickly and apologies for appearing THICK but I've no idea how I would start in trying your solution. Yes I've been using DO for 15 odd years but as I said have never used any of it's advanced featires, I only use it as a better solution than Explorer so if it's not a solution that I can operate from the menu screens, I'm lost, or am going to have to learn fast. Any clues how I should start?
Save the dcf-file to your PC,
switch Opus into Customize mode,
drag the dcf-file into the toolbar of your choice,
close Customize mode with OK and
try it out with some test files and folders.
Thanks think I'm allmost there just struggling with the last bit. When I run the script it tries to generate a folder Y:\Dupes\"Backup\subdirectory name and
locks up till I edit it each time to remove the " prefix. How do I edit your DCF file to get rid of the "
Brilliant I've always known that DO was the No 1 utility now I'm even more impressed. Really should have found time to learn more but probaly a bit late now as I head into my late sixties