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Copy files and replace older versions?

 
 
Nigel Molesworth
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      19th Apr 2008
This is driving me crazy! In Windows XP you could copy files and replace
older versions in the destination, but not overwrite any newer ones.

In Vista I seem to have to do this manually for each file. Surely not?

 
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Rick Rogers
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      20th Apr 2008
Hi Nigel,

> This is driving me crazy! In Windows XP you could copy files and replace
> older versions in the destination, but not overwrite any newer ones.


Not so. The only exception would be those file that carried the system
attribute, and this applies to Vista as well. An overwrite is an overwrite,
no version check is applied.

> In Vista I seem to have to do this manually for each file. Surely not?


Do what manually?

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Nigel Molesworth
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      20th Apr 2008
On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 22:32:44 -0400, "Rick Rogers" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>> In Vista I seem to have to do this manually for each file. Surely not?

>
>Do what manually?


Err... decide if I want to overwrite the newer file.

In XP there was a "Yes to all".

Anyway, I've found the solution: TeraCopy.

 
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