Replacement of a file (Not only rename!)

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I am very new to Dopus (Demoversion)

Once every months I have to do a very cumberson task, manually. What i want is to automate this task by use of Dopus, but I don’t see a way of doing so. So my question is: can it be done?

  1. Each month I have to find certain files which resides in many different folders
  2. The files all begin with 3 different letters, all the next characters are allways the same (example: ???Abs05.apr). So to find these files with Dopus is easy.
  3. Now, I want to replace the old files with the new one. So I have to copy the new file to the clipboard and then manually insert it into each folder.
  4. Then the old file has be deleted an the inserted new File has to be renamed to the old name.

In other words, I want to replace all the files in the Found-Set with a new file (allways the same) with the same name as the old one.

I don’t expect a detailed answer, just a definitely „yes, it can be done“ or „it can’t be done“ would do. Thank you very much. (Sorry for my bad english!)

Matthias

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Is there just one new file which is copied over all three old ones, or are there three different new files, one for each old one? My idea below assumes there's only one new file.

The best way I can think of to do this kind of thing is to make a pair of buttons or hotkeys:

[ul][li]One which you run while the new new file is selected. This copies it to a fixed location (or puts its path into an environment variable or something).[/li]
[li]Another which you run while the old files are selected, which copies from the fixed location (or env-var path) over the selected files.[/li][/ul]

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Yes it's allways the same file (new version of a program/application which replaces the outdated old one).

Thanks for your hint.

Matthias

4

Cool. Shout if you get stuck.