Exclude specific files when copying in Windows using a Robocopy alternative replacement tool

This post will help you in excluding certain files of your choice from being copied.

Why exclude specific files?

By default, any copy program will copy everything (all the files) from the folder that you specify as the source. But, at times, we would like to filter and include only specific files. For Ex: Copy only pictures and not videos, only source code files and not object files, all documents except PDF files, and so on.

In this particular post, we will talk about this by comparing Robocopy to an alternative software , Copywhiz.

What is Copywhiz?

Copywhiz enhances your file-copy experience by letting you to have more flexibility & control over the file copying and backup process.

Here is how Copywhiz makes file copying a breeze:

Copy only new or modified files
Easily pick files by name, extension, folder etc from bunch of folders
Automatically organize files based on file attributes and metadata
Copy files to multiple folders/computers
Copy files from multiple folders and paste them at once
Sync files between source and destination
Pick files from multiple folders and compress in single .zip file
Schedule file backups
Verify copied files for data integrity
Retain security attributes of files & folders (ownership/user access)
Several more hidden nuggets designed to make your file-copy task easier.

You can check out more of Copywhiz’s features from here

Steps to exclude specific files

Using Robocopy

Robocopy Source Destination /XF file [file]… command lets us to specify a list of files.

For Ex: To copy files from ‘C:\pictures’ to the folder ‘c:\backup’, by excluding certain type of files, the following command line will be used:

Robocopy c:\pictures c:\backup /XF list-of-excluded-files

You can use Xcopy too. Here is the article you can check out.

However, Robocopy commands are not straightforward. System administrators may be able to use it. But, Robocopy is confusing for ordinary users.

Let me now show you a more comfortable and faster way to do this.

Using Copywhiz

Copywhiz makes this very user-friendly. Watch a short video depicting this feature:

Video Transcription

1. Go to Windows File Explorer, select the files from the source folder, right-click and choose Copywhiz–>Copy as shown below:

2. Go to the destination folder, right-click, and choose Copywhiz–> Paste Advanced. The Advanced Settings dialogue box will open.

3. You can include or exclude files/folders to be copied by typing their names, file extensions, or folder names. You can also preview the list of files that will be copied and files that will be skipped by clicking on the Preview button. After confirming, press the OK button in the Advanced Settings dialog box. All the required files are copied successfully.

Conclusion

Copywhiz lets you to choose which type of files to copy & which to ignore – i.e, it lets you to do ‘Selective File Copy’. Easily filter files by name, extension, folder, etc. from a bunch of folders. You can complete big file copy tasks with few clicks & save manual effort with Copywhiz.

For more tutorial videos, check out this page and also our YouTube channel

Learn more about Copywhiz. Download the free trial from here.

Have a good day.

Thanks for reading till the end :)

If you found this post useful, do spread the word by sharing it.

Searching for text within a digital sticky note in Windows

This post will tell you how you can search for text within a sticky note in Windows using Notezilla, a sticky notes app for Windows & Phones (Android, iOS, iPhone, iPad, Windows Phone etc).

What is Notezilla?

Notezilla is a professional, elegant & highly rated sticky notes app for Windows & Phones (Android, iOS, iPhone, iPad etc). You can also access your sticky notes from a Mac.

Notezilla helps you organize various tiny bits of information you would need through out your life. It keeps all your notes, tasks & reminders handy where ever you are. With sticky notes, you hardly have to put effort to take notes, set reminders, etc. Quickly jot down & move on with your task at hand.

Here are some features of Notezilla:

Sticky notes with reminders
Attach sticky notes to websites, documents, folders & apps
Organize sticky notes inside folders to keep your Windows desktop clean.
Pin sticky notes on top of other apps
Sync sticky notes between Windows, Android, iPhone, iPad
Add pictures inside sticky notes
Checklist sticky notes
Lock sticky notes (password protect)
Markdown support
Send notes over local network (LAN) or across the globe
Tag sticky notes
Fully transparent sticky notes
Dark mode

Searching for text

Sticky notes in Notezilla are not designed only for writing short notes. You can even use them as an alternative to Notepad. Notezilla allows you to work on sticky notes that are as wide as your display monitor. This way, you can use sticky notes to also store large content such as reference material, web snippets, scripts, drafts, etc. You don’t have to worry about saving your collected data to separate files.

While you store large content into the notes, you may find it difficult to manually search for a particular word or keyword in the long note. Say, you want to replace or remove a specific term but can’t find it.

Now is when Notezilla will help you. You just have to press the “Ctrl+F” key from within a sticky note. A search box will automatically open wherein you can type the text you are looking for. The search results will highlight in the note. You can even right-click inside a sticky note and select the “Find” option to do the same.
The results filter as and when you keep typing.

Here is a short video incorporating this feature:

If the word you are looking for is repeated several times in the note, click on the right-facing arrow, and the next place where it appears highlights.

Notezilla thus saves a lot of your time and efforts on searching for text.

So how about giving it a try today. It perfectly boosts your productivity!

The best part of Notezilla is that it can sync notes between your mobile and PC or laptop! Therefore, you have the exact notes at both places! Try the sync feature today! You will surely love it.

Learn more about Notezilla.

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for interesting videos.

Check out our other cool products.

Have a good day!

Thanks :)

Perform incremental file backup in Windows using Copywhiz

Taking regular backups of your files is a really good habit.

But do you take advantage of incremental backups when backing up your files?

The Incremental Backup concept

An incremental backup is a type of backup that only copies files that have changed since the previous backup.

For example, if a full backup is performed today, the next incremental backup will only take all changed files since today’s backup. This helps reduce the time spent on taking backups and avoiding the repetition of files with the same content.

In this post, we will show you how to do incremental backup using Copywhiz.

What is Copywhiz?

Copywhiz enhances your file-copy experience by letting you to have more flexibility & control over the file copying and backup process.

Here is how Copywhiz makes file copying a breeze:

Copy only new or modified files
Easily pick files by name, extension, folder etc from bunch of folders
Automatically organize files based on file attributes and metadata
Copy files to multiple folders/computers
Copy files from multiple folders and paste them at once
Sync files between source and destination
Pick files from multiple folders and compress in single .zip file
Schedule file backups
Verify copied files for data integrity
Retain security attributes of files & folders (ownership/user access)
Several more hidden nuggets designed to make your file-copy task easier.

Steps to perform incremental backup

Here is a small video depicting the feature:

Go to Windows File Explorer, select the files from the source folder, right-click and choose Copywhiz–>Copy as shown below:

Right-click inside the destination folder where you wish to copy the files and select Copywhiz–>Paste Advanced:

Copywhiz Window will open. Click on ‘Advanced Settings’ button and select “Automatically identify & paste only new or modified files” and click ‘OK’:

Click on “Paste Now,” and your files copy instantly. You can click on “Paste later” so that your files will be scheduled for copying later. Useful for backups.

That’s it. Incremental backups is very straightforward using Copywhiz.

For more tutorial videos, check out this page and our YouTube channel too.

Learn more about Copywhiz. Download the free trial from here.

Check out our other cool products.

Have a good day.

Thanks for your time :)

Copy only files newer than the day/date you want in Windows using a Robocopy alternative replacement tool

We often spend a lot of our precious time in copying the same set of files every day or every few days to take backups. It would be very convenient if we could copy only those files that have been newly added or recently modified after a particular day or date.

This is a tedious task if done manually. Therefore let us look at how this is possible using Robocopy and an alternative software Copywhiz, which does the same thing in a much user friendly manner.

What is Copywhiz?

Copywhiz enhances your file-copy experience by letting you to have more flexibility & control over the file copying and backup process.

Here is how Copywhiz makes file copying a breeze:

Copy only new or modified files
Easily pick files by name, extension, folder etc from bunch of folders
Automatically organize files based on file attributes and metadata
Copy files to multiple folders/computers
Copy files from multiple folders and paste them at once
Sync files between source and destination
Pick files from multiple folders and compress in single .zip file
Schedule file backups
Verify copied files for data integrity
Retain security attributes of files & folders (ownership/user access)
Several more hidden nuggets designed to make your file-copy task easier.

An image depicting one of the features of Copywhiz

Steps to copy newer files based on date

Using Robocopy

The Robocopy command Robocopy Source [Destination] /maxage:n (where n can be the number of days or date of format YYYYMMDD) copies all source files that are newer than the date specified.

For Ex: To copy all the files in the directory ‘E:\data’ that have been added or modified on or after 1st JAN 2018 to the folder ‘E:\backup’, the following command line will be used:

Robocopy / E:\data E:\backup/MAXAGE:20180101

However, these commands are quite confusing and difficult to understand. It is, therefore, advisable to use Copywhiz, which is faster and more straightforward.

Using Copywhiz:

Watch a short video that perfectly depicts this feature:

Video Transcription

1. Right-click on the folder from which only new or modified files need to be copied and choose Copywhiz–>Copy from the menu as shown below:

2. Go to the destination folder, right-click on it and select Copywhiz–>Paste Advanced. The advanced settings dialogue box will open.

3. Select the date option, as shown in the picture below.

Conclusion

This feature is handy while sharing/uploading only recently modified files, taking backups of just new and modified files, especially when there are several files to copy. Thus, Copywhiz proves to save a lot of time and effort and thereby increase productivity.

The most significant advantage of using Copywhiz is that you can take automatic backups of your files and folders! Read more about it here:

Automatically copy files & folders in background at specific time in Windows

Learn more about Copywhiz.

Download the free trial from here.

For more tutorial videos, click here .

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for regular updates and interesting videos!

Check out our other cool products.

Have a good day.

Thanks for reading till the end :)

Copying and filtering files based on their size in Windows using a Robocopy alternative replacement tool

During our file copy, we would sometimes not want files that are too large, or sometimes we may require only large files to be copied. Whatever may be the case, the basic idea is to select the files you want to copy only based on their sizes.

Wouldn’t it be great if you could do that without much time and effort? Instead of copying all the files and later deleting the ones not required, you can just skip copying files not required altogether.

This post will show you how to copy files only of the size (small or large) you want, allowing you to exclude files not needed. Let us look at how this is possible with Windows Robocopy tool and an alternative software Copywhiz.

What is Copywhiz?

Copywhiz enhances your file-copy experience by letting you to have more flexibility & control over the file copying and backup process.

Here is how Copywhiz makes file copying a breeze:

Copy only new or modified files
Easily pick files by name, extension, folder etc from bunch of folders
Automatically organize files based on file attributes and metadata
Copy files to multiple folders/computers
Copy files from multiple folders and paste them at once
Sync files between source and destination
Pick files from multiple folders and compress in single .zip file
Schedule file backups
Verify copied files for data integrity
Retain security attributes of files & folders (ownership/user access)
Several more hidden nuggets designed to make your file-copy task easier.

Steps to copy files based on size

Using Robocopy

The Robocopy command Robocopy source [destination] /max:n lets you set the maximum limit on a file size. Which means files larger than the mentioned size would not be copied.

Similarly, the command Robocopy source [destination] /min:n lets you set the minimum file size limit so that files smaller than the mentioned size would not be copied.

For e.x: to exclude files larger than 10 KB when copying files from “projects” folder to “backup” folder, you will apply the following command :

Robocopy d:\temp\projects e:\backup /xf max:10kb

Similarly for ex: to exclude files smaller than 10 KB when copying files from “projects” folder to “backup” folder , you will apply the Command :

Robocopy d:\temp\projects e:\backup /xf min:10kb

However, these Robocopy commands are quite difficult to understand and use by ordinary users. Only system administrators find it easy.

Let me show you a more comfortable and straightforward method.

Using Copywhiz

Watch a short video depicting this feature:

Video Transcription

1. Select files using Windows Explorer, right-click on them and choose Copywhiz->Copy from the menu as shown below :

2. Go to the destination folder, right-click inside the folder and select Copywhiz–>Paste special–>Paste files by name or type as shown below:

3. The Advanced Settings dialog box will open. You can include or exclude files/folders to be copied by typing /selecting file size. You can also preview the list of files that will be copied and files that will be skipped by clicking on the Preview button. After confirming, press the OK button in the Advanced Settings dialog box. All the required files will be copied successfully.

4. Click on “OK” and then “Paste Now”. Your files are instantly.

Conclusion

As you have seen above, when copying files using Copywhiz, you can exclude or include specific types of files/folders. You gain more control over what is copied. With a few clicks, you complete big file copy tasks & save manual effort.

You can avoid files that are not required, like those files that occupy too much space and only pick essential files.

The most significant advantage of using Copywhiz is that you can take automatic backups of your files and folders!

Silently copy files in Windows without showing error popup message box

One thing about Windows file copy is that it will continuously need your attention if there are duplicate files if a file is in use or if there is any other error.

When you are seriously working on an important task (while a background file copy is going on) and suddenly, if an error popup box appears, the whole flow of work gets disturbed. We have to stop working and attend to these messages. This is why you would wish to stop those messages from popping up or let the error get resolved silently without disturbing your work.

Here I will show how you can use Copywhiz to suppress all the message prompts, error boxes and continue with file copy. Later you can verify the error log to check if there are any errors. It is beneficial when taking backups and when you wish to copy files silently.

What is Copywhiz?

Copywhiz enhances your file-copy experience by letting you to have more flexibility & control over the file copying and backup process.

Here is how Copywhiz makes file copying a breeze:

Copy only new or modified files
Easily pick files by name, extension, folder etc from bunch of folders
Automatically organize files based on file attributes and metadata
Copy files to multiple folders/computers
Copy files from multiple folders and paste them at once
Sync files between source and destination
Pick files from multiple folders and compress in single .zip file
Schedule file backups
Verify copied files for data integrity
Retain security attributes of files & folders (ownership/user access)
Several more hidden nuggets designed to make your file-copy task easier.

Steps to silently copy files in Windows

The most common message you get is that a file already exists with the same name. Copywhiz can replace duplicate files automatically once pre-configured. Also, it will show you a list of errors (if any) after the file copy operation is complete.

Watch a short video describing this feature:

Go to Windows File Explorer, select the files from the source folder, right-click and choose Copywhiz–>Copy as shown below:
Go to the destination folder, right-click and choose Copywhiz–> Paste Advanced. The advanced settings dialogue box will open.
Select the “General” tab and enable the option “Run silently”. This option ensures that you are not asked any questions when copying files. Duplicate files will be replaced automatically by default, and all the errors log to a separate file.

Click on OK and then Paste Now.

For more tutorial videos, check out this page.

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more such interesting videos.

Learn more about Copywhiz. Download the free trial from here.

Have a good day.

Thanks for staying with us :)

Copy files and folders quickly from multiple folders into a single folder in Windows

Many times we have all our music and pictures scattered in different folders that we may want to store into a single folder. You might want to pick only specific types of files and copy all of them in one folder. Say your favorite songs and personal pictures.

But you always have to follow the tedious process of copy, paste, copy, paste and repeat it several times, which is very time-consuming.

This post will explain how to copy files from different folders in different places into a single folder or destination.

It can be done easily using Copywhiz

What is Copywhiz?

Copywhiz enhances your file-copy experience by letting you to have more flexibility & control over the file copying and backup process.

Here is how Copywhiz makes file copying a breeze:

Copy only new or modified files
Easily pick files by name, extension, folder etc from bunch of folders
Automatically organize files based on file attributes and metadata
Copy files to multiple folders/computers
Copy files from multiple folders and paste them at once
Sync files between source and destination
Pick files from multiple folders and compress in single .zip file
Schedule file backups
Verify copied files for data integrity
Retain security attributes of files & folders (ownership/user access)
Several more hidden nuggets designed to make your file-copy task easier.

Steps to quickly copy files from multiple folders into single folder

Watch a short video on this feature:

1. Go to Windows File Explorer, select the files/folders, right-click and choose Copywhiz–>Copy as shown below:
<src=”https: www.conceptworld.com=”” blog=”” uploads=”” 2016=”” 09=”” copy-files1.jpg”=””></src=”https:>

2. Keep adding files from different folders by selecting them, right-clicking, and choosing “Copy (Add to queue)” from the Copywhiz menu. You can see the total number of files copied until now in the “Show items” menu.