Guest Candace Posted August 24, 2007 Posted August 24, 2007 Is there a way to automatically copy the contents of one or more folders to another folder? Here is what I am trying to accomplish ... My users keep 3 different folders: Sue\Docs Wendy\Docs David\Docs I want to create a folder called simply: \Docs So that anytime someone adds information to either of the three user folders listed earlier, then Windows will automatically copy or create shortcuts to all of the documents within those three folders into the \Docs folder. Is this possible?
Guest JS Posted August 24, 2007 Posted August 24, 2007 Re: Copying folder content Not exactly what you are looking for but... Karen's Replicator: http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptreplicator.asp JS "Candace" <Candace@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:77532A5B-6930-4B2A-847D-FB3743ADD2C5@microsoft.com... > Is there a way to automatically copy the contents of one or more folders > to > another folder? Here is what I am trying to accomplish ... My users keep 3 > different folders: > > Sue\Docs > Wendy\Docs > David\Docs > > I want to create a folder called simply: > > \Docs > > So that anytime someone adds information to either of the three user > folders > listed earlier, then Windows will automatically copy or create shortcuts > to > all of the documents within those three folders into the \Docs folder. > > Is this possible?
Guest Vanguard Posted August 24, 2007 Posted August 24, 2007 Re: Copying folder content "Candace" wrote in message news:77532A5B-6930-4B2A-847D-FB3743ADD2C5@microsoft.com... > Is there a way to automatically copy the contents of one or more > folders to > another folder? Here is what I am trying to accomplish ... My users > keep 3 > different folders: > > Sue\Docs > Wendy\Docs > David\Docs > > I want to create a folder called simply: > > \Docs > > So that anytime someone adds information to either of the three user > folders > listed earlier, then Windows will automatically copy or create > shortcuts to > all of the documents within those three folders into the \Docs > folder. > > Is this possible? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/205524/en-us Windows includes no tools to create/modify/delete junction points. You need to get Microsoft's Resource Kit. http://www.rekenwonder.com/linkmagic.htm It's been awhile since I played with junctions. Try making <user>\docs as the junction to \docs. It might work; however, it will have a side effect that you probably don't want. For example, if I create the following folders: d:\test\sue\docs d:\test\wendy\docs d:\test\david\docs and a target folder to contain their documents at: d:\testdocs then creating the following junctions: d:\test\sue\docs --> d:\testdocs d:\test\wendy\docs --> d:\testdocs d:\test\david\docs --> d:\testdocs will result in any file created under the docs subdirectory under sue, wendy, or david to actually be stored at \testdocs. Sounds like what you want until you realize that the doc are actually under \testdocs and each of those junctions from sue, wendy, and david will be using \testdocs. That means a doc named, say, sue-report.txt created under \test\sue\docs will be actually under \testdocs which is also where the wendy and david junctions point, so you'll see the same sue-report.txt under \test\wendy\docs and under \test\david\docs. There are 3 separate junction points but all 3 are pointing to the same destination. It's like having vanes on the top of the bucket where sue, wendy, and david each slide their apples, oranges, or grapes through a different slot at the top but all of them are still looking down into the same bucket. They are all sharing the same destination. If you ever delete the junctions, the files will be under the destination because that's where you told the junction to put them. In this example, deleting the junctions from \test\<user>\docs to \testdocs results in the files disappearing from \test\<user>\docs (because they were never there) and just showing up at \testdocs (because that's where they really got created). If instead of sharing you merely want to keep a wholly separate copy of each user's docs in some global repository, look at using Microsoft's SyncToy powertoy for Windows XP (using the "Echo" option). You then define a scheduled event in Task Scheduler to periodically run "synctoy.exe -r". It does not run continuously as an NT service. Decide how often to run the scheduled task.
Guest Plato Posted August 25, 2007 Posted August 25, 2007 Re: Copying folder content =?Utf-8?B?Q2FuZGFjZQ==?= wrote: > > Is there a way to automatically copy the contents of one or more folders to > another folder? Here is what I am trying to accomplish ... My users keep 3 > different folders: One can try Second Copy: http://www.centered.com/download/sc2000.exe -- http://www.bootdisk.com/
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