A program to copy only user-created files?

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A program to copy only user-created files?

I think the perso;n who gave me an old Dell have copies of all their
pictures, etc. but I'm going to check. Even if they do, other times
people don't, and a program like this would come in handy.

Is there a program for XP that will go to the popular places on the
harddrive, like My Docurments, My Music, My Photos, Documents and
Settings/Application Data for each persona, and copy only user-created
files, like .jpg, .tif, .doc, .txt, etc.?

Is there anything out there like this?


If I were qualified to write this program, it would be able to copy
only files after a certain date, so the user could use the day before
he started using the computer, so the sample music, sample photos etc.
would not be copied.

And it would make the destination files have exactly the same
fully-qualified name (which I think would facilitate putting all this
stuff on his current computer) or if the user chose, it would make a
series of high-level directories, which those using the files directly
might find less confusing.

You may have my idea for free if you want to write this, but please
send me a copy.

 

[BillW50]

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A program to copy only user-created files?

I think the perso;n who gave me an old Dell have copies of all their
pictures, etc. but I'm going to check. Even if they do, other times
people don't, and a program like this would come in handy.

Is there a program for XP that will go to the popular places on the
harddrive, like My Docurments, My Music, My Photos, Documents and
Settings/Application Data for each persona, and copy only user-created
files, like .jpg, .tif, .doc, .txt, etc.?

Is there anything out there like this?


If I were qualified to write this program, it would be able to copy
only files after a certain date, so the user could use the day before
he started using the computer, so the sample music, sample photos etc.
would not be copied.

And it would make the destination files have exactly the same
fully-qualified name (which I think would facilitate putting all this
stuff on his current computer) or if the user chose, it would make a
series of high-level directories, which those using the files directly
might find less confusing.

You may have my idea for free if you want to write this, but please
send me a copy.

Well there is SyncBack (there is a free version). You set it up what you
want to copy, sync, backup, etc. and then you just run and it remembers
your settings.

 

[Bob CP]

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A batch file with several instances of xcopy would do it.
i.e.

usedata.bat

xcopy c:\*.jpg d:\backup\ /s /d:%1
xcopy c:\*.tif d:\backup\ /s /d:%1
etc...

Run from the command line with the syntax

usedata <date> where <date> is the date from which you want to grab all
the newer files.
i.e.
usedata 4-20-2011

 

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Thanks, Bill, SyncBack looks darn good, and even if maybe I don't use
it in this case, I'm pretty sure I'll use it for something. It has
profiles**, which is sort of equivalient to several bat files, one for
each job. But I think it has easy to set up versatility, and a
built-in scheduler. It has a lot of options, and though I don't
think it has "greater than date", if I send someone their data and
they have to delete the sample files, it won't kill them. Or They
can keep the sample files and they'll be no worse off than we all are
now.

**And there is no charge for profiles, even though there is a charge
for Pro-version.

A batch file with several instances of xcopy would do it.
i.e.

usedata.bat

xcopy c:\*.jpg d:\backup\ /s /d:%1
xcopy c:\*.tif d:\backup\ /s /d:%1
etc...

Run from the command line with the syntax

usedata <date> where <date> is the date from which you want to grab all
the newer files.
i.e.
usedata 4-20-2011

Also a good idea. I may use XXCopy instead, which understands all
the xcopy syntax and has many more options. I'm don't think I'm
going to back up every .jpg file, just ones in chosen directories --
especially since there is email for two different people -- but all
the lines will be visible in the editor at one time.


With one of these methods or the other, I'd rather spend time setting
this up now and have it easily modifiable if other programs are used
for email etc., than do a one-shot maybe haphazard copy this time.

Thanks to both of you.

 

[BillW50]

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Thanks, Bill, SyncBack looks darn good, and even if maybe I don't use
it in this case, I'm pretty sure I'll use it for something. It has
profiles**, which is sort of equivalient to several bat files, one for
each job. But I think it has easy to set up versatility, and a
built-in scheduler. It has a lot of options, and though I don't
think it has "greater than date", if I send someone their data and
they have to delete the sample files, it won't kill them. Or They
can keep the sample files and they'll be no worse off than we all are
now.

**And there is no charge for profiles, even though there is a charge
for Pro-version.

Yeah that is one weakness of SyncBack, as you can't say from this date
forward. But it is very easy to setup and to use. And you can filter out
stuff you don't want to copy like samples and such. And filter what you
do want to copy. What really amazes me is how fast SyncBack is.
Especially after it ran for the first time for a given profile.