Quake3World

At the moment I'm working on large numbers of the same files at both home and university and am transferring the two on one of those usb stick things (actually, i just use my camera's xd card, but that's irrelevant).

I'm constantly forgetting to write an important file to the usb stick because I'm in a hurry, or managing to overwrite a newer file with an old one. What I need is a program that enables me to just copy one directory over another one and compares the "modified" date: only overwriting files if the original file is older than the one being copied.

Windows really should do this, but it doesn't

Sourcesafe > *

But your uni would need it too

Can't you log into your home directory from home? I can log into mine using an FTP-link system (a web folder I think) and copy files to / from my uni drive


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I have done in the past, but the files I'm dealing with are massive ammounts of high quality jpegs.

I can sweet talk the computer guy into letting me install pretty much anything on one of the computers, he's already installed fraps and taken the internet filter off it for me.

Ah right.. hmm.. I'm sure i've seen something simlar to this but can't think of its name

I had a bit of a search on google, and found a few things but they were bloatware crap; i'm looking for something nice and compact, it doesn't really seem like a difficult thing to do.

hmm.. I could possibly make something reasonably quickly to do this for you. Basically:


Select source dir.
Select destination dir.

Program copies all files from source destination, if file already exists, and is newer then overwrite, else if its older don't overwrite?

exactly that.

If you would that would be utterly grand, but if it's going to take you an excessive amount of time, don't worry too much about it.

I need to bush up my .NET skills for a programming assignment in it anyway

.net...lol...

well, if you really don't mind then i'll sacrifice my first born in your name, which will bring you great riches

Freakaloin wrote:.net...lol...

A handy language/environment if you want to build a GUI app quick and simple.

yeah but its still for morons...

This can be done with a .bat file using the xcopy windows command.

I dont have time to write one, but it should be trivial for Pho or Raw.

I use Beyond Compare a lot:
http://www.scootersoftware.com/

Foo wrote:This can be done with a .bat file using the xcopy windows command.

I dont have time to write one, but it should be trivial for Pho or Raw.

mmm, a batch file would be ideal...i could even run it without having to bother the computer bloke.

I have something for you to test

Wasn't the Windows Briefcase supposed to do this?

This is what you want: SyncBack

The problem with copying based off the the 'date modified' is that the date/time windows is currently set to can be off. Not the biggest problem but one that you should keep in mind. That is why lots of backup programs use the 'archive bit' to decide whether or not a file needs to be backed up. However, this raises its own problems if the program you use fails to set the bit and therfore the backup program fails to copy it.

Well, anyway. I use this program called Cobian Backup. Works for me.

Foo wrote:This can be done with a .bat file using the xcopy windows command.

I dont have time to write one, but it should be trivial for Pho or Raw.

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run xcopy with /? to see how to use it.

you can also 'touch' files with the copy command, if there's a specific file you want included/excluded.

Problem solved. If anyone wants the exe (or indeed source) let me know.