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Easily Copy Or Move Files Of A Specific Type From A Cluttered Folder

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Moving or copying specific types of files from a complex folder structure can be a tedious task. If you are doing it manually, you have to first find all the required files stored in all the different folders, and copy them from the source folder to the destination separately for each folder. This way, there is a chance that you may miss some of the files, or copy some files multiple times. Normally, our Downloads folder is cluttered with files of different types and this makes it difficult to copy or move the same type of files to a different folder. File Mover is a free Windows application that allows you to search for a particular type of files in a folder and copy or move them to a new location. The whole process is performed by the app and makes it easier for you to organize your files according to file type. Moreover, the application lets you choose if you want to just copy the files form the parent directory, or also the subdirectories included in it. Read More

PasteAsFile: Directly Save Clipboard Items To Files

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Whenever we research something on the web, we save the related information for later use. What we usually do is copy the text, open an empty notepad file, paste the text there, and save it. If you are trying to store information from different sources, saving all of them in one file will not only confuse you, but also make it hard to organize the information. In order to avoid the confusion, what you can do is save the copied snippet in a different text file and rename each file accordingly, but that can waste a lot of your precious time. Text-based data is not the only thing that one needs to research for while doing a project. Today, we have an application for you called PasteAsFile, which lets you paste any text or image related item from the Windows Clipboard directly into a file. You do not have to create an empty file of any kind before pasting the clipboard content. With PasteAsFile, you no longer need to open the file to paste the required item into it. Just copy the item (text/image) to the Windows clipboard, right-click the file in which you want to insert the copied snippet, and click Paste As File option. Read More

ExtremeCopy: Probably The Fastest File/Folder Move & Copy Utility

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When backing up data or transferring gigabytes of useful information, we often find ourselves waiting impatiently for task completion notification. Copying files and folders from multiple sources to various destinations in an organized batch operation is also a challenge for users. ExtremeCopy addresses all these issues and provides features like verification and enhanced file copy speed. It has been observed to outclass the Windows 7 explorer copy speeds by 20% ~ 120%, depending on the amount of data handled. Furthermore, it has also been seen to perform faster in comparison with previously reviewed utilities like SuperCopier and fairly popular TeraCopy. Read More

Drag’n'Drop Editor: Change Default File Drag & Drop Behavior In Windows Explorer

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Copying and moving files is one of the most frequent computer tasks. Back in the old days,  you'd type DOS commands to perform the said operation, then it was made it easier with the introduction of GUI, as copy and move etc. commands were made available in the context menu. It has been made a lot more easier, as nowadays, almost all major OS platforms offer drag & drop support, allowing users to copy & move items from one location to another. Take Windows for instance; it lets users move and copy files and folders by dragging them over the target location. By default, if you drag and drop a file within the same volume, it is moved from the source to the destination folder. However, Windows also lets you copy and create shortcut of files by holding down the Ctrl button while dragging the file/folder, it copies the file. Similarly, holding down the Ctrl + Shift keys while dragging a file creates only a shortcut of the source file in the destination folder. By default, Windows doesn't let you change that behavior. If you've been looking a for a way to change the default drag & drop function, which moves the file/folder to target location, try out Drag'n'Drop Editor. It's a miniscule application for Windows that allows you to change the default drag and drop behavior in Windows Explorer. Using this tool, you can replace the default Move items action with either the Copy or Create Shortcut action. It can particularly come in handy for those who don't like holding down Ctrl key while dragging files over the target folder in order to copy them. More details about usage up ahead, including a screenshot. Read More

Copy Changed Files Creates Incremental Backups Through Time & Binary Comparison

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We have covered a lot of applications that allow you to make incremental backups of your data. For those who are not familiar with the incremental backup technique, it checks only those files that are new, or have been modified and then copy them to the target location. This technique is not only efficient, but also reduces the time it takes to create the backup of the source folder(s). Consider yourself in a situation where you are editing multiple documents present in a folder. Now, if you create a full backup of the folder every time you make changes to one or two documents, it will surely waste a lot of your precious time, but using incremental data backup technique, you will be able to copy only modified and new documents from source to target folder. Copy Changed Files is an application for Windows that allows you to create incremental backups of your files and folders. It copies only the changed files, and offers two simple methods, namely date and time check and binary comparison for comparing the old files with the new ones. Keep reading after the break to find out more about Copy Change Files. Read More

All About Windows 8 FileName Collisions And Copy/Move Dialog Box

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Along with Desktop, Start Search and Start Menu, Windows 8 Copy/Move dialog box has also been revamped with more dynamic user interface elements. The new Copy/Move dialog box includes file copy/move progress graph which helps user visually check the copying/moving speed, along with pause/resume button to instantly pause the copy/move operation and then resume it back. The most notable improvement that you will see in Windows 8 is the new file copy/move conflict resolution, aka filename collision, dialog box. For those who are not familiar with this dialog, it appears when you copy or move files to location where either one or more than one similar files with same titles are already present. In this post, we will discuss some major improvements in both Windows copy/move dialog box and file copy/move conflict resolution window. Read More

QCopy – Copy Files Across A Network With Pause / Resume Functionality

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QCopy is a handy tool for copying files across wireless and wired networks. Although, QCopy can also be used to copy files to and from a local drive, its main ability is to copy files in bulk to a network location and to pause or resume copying tasks to suit your needs. For example, you can add heavy files to the queue and pause the file copying process when working on important tasks and resume it when the system is idle. This way you can copy files across network locations without having to wait for the copying process to complete and avoid system hangs which may occur during work when heavy files are being copied. Read More

WinMend File Copy – Copy Files Faster Than Windows Default Copy Engine

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WinMend File Copy is a file copying application having a unique duplication engine which works 300% faster than the Windows default copy engine. File copying can be performed in three different modes which can be selected to directly overwrite, match and overwrite, or skip files with the same name. It also provides a list of files which may fail to copy during the copying process and allows you to r-copy them again. This functionality is useful as it can help you identify and rectify file copying errors. Another good feature of WinMend File Copy is that the copying process can be paused anytime and resumed at your convenience without damaging the files in queue. Apart from being fast and reliable, WinMend File Copy also comes with an attractive skinable interface which can be switched in a single click. Read More

SuperCopier Skips File In Queue, Handles Copy Speed & File Conflicts

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Using third-party file copy/move applications make sense only when it’s required to pause/resume file copying operation and tinker around with default file copy speed. File copiers are generally developed to change file buffer size, boost copying to physical memory speed, and to pause multiple file copying processes. SuperCopier is an advanced file copying utility which, along with supporting such advance options, lets you skip files in copy queue and specify actions for file copy conflict resolution. Read More

FileClipper – Easily Move, Copy Files, & Create Hard & Symbolic Links [Mac]

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We all know that when it comes to file specific operations, Finder of Mac OS X has only the ability to make aliases and copy files from one place to another. Many users rely on small scripts which can deal with such downsides to make Finder seamlessly make aliases, create hard & symbolic links, and to move files without having to drag & drop them from one window to another. If you’re not using any of the contrived scripts for each purpose, try FileClipper. It is an ingeniously useful application-bundle for Mac which offers 5 tools to perform file-specific operations, such as, move and copy files, make aliases to current location, and to create hard & symbolic links. The working of all the provided applications revolve around Mac clipboard which contains text in case you copied text off the webpage or word processor, and file links in case of copying file from right-click context menu. These tools play a middleman role in achieving the said functionality. For instance, it acts as a clipboard handler for moving file from one place to another, making aliases to specified location, creating symbolic and hard link of selected file and finally, copying the file from selected location to current opened location. All the mentioned functions are performed by respective applications, having names, Copy to Here, Make Alias File to Here, Make Hard Link to Here, Make Symbolic Link to Here, and Move to Here. Read More

FastCopy Offers User-Defined Buffer Size For Fast Data Copying

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FastCopy is an opensource application which is built to speed up data copying process in Windows OS. On macro-level, its working is based on source & destination of data which is to be copied, i.e, two mechanisms are deployed to provide super fast data copying – if source & destination is on different HDDs, then reading and writing are processed respectively in parallel by separate threads. But if they are on the same HDDs, then reading is processed until the user-defined buffer size is filled. Once filled, data can be written anywhere immediately. According to the developer, it doesn’t use Windows cache for data reading/writing, so users wont be experiencing any lags. Read More

Make Compressed Backups And Sync Data Remotely With CopyTo Synchronizer

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CopyTo Synchronizer is a data synchronization and backup utility that offers a vast range of features to promptly backup your data across all the nodes connected in network with other standalone systems or to any target folder. It is designed for system administrators, who need to backup all the data from multiple PCs to main system or to copy a set of files/folders onto different systems. Moreover, the application offer filters support, so users can narrow down the search to move/copy/sync only specific files.  The best part is that you can compress data (supports high-level ZIP compression) residing in source and target location to save some extra disk space. The sync/backup projects are saved in its native CP2 format, a saved project can always be retained back to recall settings for performing same set of actions over any other files/folders. Read More

UltraCopier – Pause / Resume File Copy Operation, Limit Speed, And More

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Windows provides a faster and more seamless copy operation but Microsoft does not give end-users control over this speed. All versions of Windows will transfer data at the speed they find to be plausible, in most cases the speed is the highest, thus, resulting in the freeze of lower-end PCs. UltraCopier is a file move/copy enhancement tool that brings advance options and features and offers a wide range of copy,move and data transfer operation specific customizations.  It includes user-defined speed enhancement options, copy/move controllers, speed limitations, copy list searching, and most importantly pause/resume capability. Read More

Fix Windows 7 Slow Copy [File Transfer]

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NiceCopier is a small opensource tool that installs as a shell extension and replaces the default Windows Explorer Copy/Move function. It adds several useful features like pause, resume, calculation of best copy speeds, etc. The interface looks more like a file downloader with accurate description of both file transfer speed and data. A perfect tool to fix up the unaccurate and slow Windows 7 file copy operation. Even though we use it to replace Windows 7 file copy, it can be used with previous versions of the OS as well, and especially with netbooks running Windows 7. Read More