Copy security attributes along with files/folders in Windows

With Copywhiz file copy/backup app, it is now possible to retain the security attributes (user access/ownership) of files/folders when copying them.

This means that the destination files and folders will also have the same security attributes as the source files and folders.

I will show you how to do it in Copywhiz. Before that you may want to know more about 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.

How to ensure security settings are retained when your files/folders are copied?

Before copying files in Copywhiz, just go to Advanced Settings and choose the option “Retain security attributes of files & folders” as shown below.

That’s it. It is so simple. No need for learn advance complicated command line parameter switches. You will love it when you discover how much time and tedious effort Copywhiz can save.

Below is a short video for your reference:

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Copy only specific types of files to a single folder without sub-folders in Windows

Copywhiz offers you more flexibility when copying files by letting you copy all or specific files to a single folder without any sub-folders. This is extremely useful when you want to bring files from several folders into a single folder.

With just few clicks you will see the magic.

Advanced Settings in 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.

This post will show you how to Copy only specific types of files to a single folder without sub-folders. Here’s a short video covering this feature:

Video Transcript:

  1. In this video, at John’s office PC there are his personal files are mixed with his work related files. We will copy only his personal files to another folder and also automatically delete them from the office folder.
  2. Select all the files, right-click and copy using Copywhiz.
  3. Go to the destination folder, right-click and choose Copywhiz Paste Advanced.
  4. The Copywhiz main window will open. Click on the Advanced Settings button.
  5. Under the “Include Files” box, type the name or extension of files to copy.
  6. Enable the option “Paste all files to a single folder”
  7. Click on OK. And back to the Copywhiz main window, under the paste options select, “Paste and delete original”.
  8. Click on “Paste now”.
  9. You will see the files were successfully moved and have automatically been deleted from the source folder as well.

That’s it! This feature helps us save our time by automatically deleting files from the source folder once they are copied to the destination folder.

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Copy files created, modified in the last X days using Copywhiz for Windows

In this post, we will find/backup/copy files that were created/modified/accessed in the last X days, from a large set of files using Copywhiz for Windows. Before copying the files you can preview which files will be copied when specifying the number of days or a date range in Advanced Settings window.

Option to specify number of days or date range

What is Copywhiz?

Enhance your file-copy experience with Copywhiz as it lets you to have more flexibility & more 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
  • Several more hidden nuggets designed to make your file-copy task easier.

Here is a short video that shows how to achieve the above mentioned feature:

Video Transcript:

  1. In this video, we will copy which files were created/modified/accessed in the past X days.
  2. Select the folder, right-click and add it to Copywhiz.
  3. Go to the destination folder, right-click and choose Copywhiz Paste Advanced.
  4. In the Source Tab, go to the ‘Paste by date’ section.
  5. Select the criteria and mention the number of days.
  6. As in the video shown, you can see the preview.
  7. We can mention a date range as well.

Copywhiz is an advanced file copy and backup tool. It makes it so easy to find files which have been recently created/modified/accessed.

Conclusion

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Have a good day!

Thanks for reading :)

Automatically backup files into new compressed file (.zip) each time using Copywhiz

Automatically create new .zip file based on current date/time each time you backup them. Create new version of backups each time. To compress files from various folders is a tedious task but now Copywhiz allows to compress them all into a single .zip file so easily.

Name the zip file based on current date/time so that a new file is created each time.

Create a new zip file for every file backup

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.

Here is a short video that shows how to achieve this:

Video Transcription:

  1. In this video, we will copy and compress files into a new zip file.
  2. Right click and select files into Copywhiz.
  3. Paste the files here, right click and select Copywhiz “Paste Advanced” option.
  4. Choose the option “Paste as compressed zip file”
  5. Type the zip file name and click “Paste now” button.
  6. As you see in the video, we added date time place holder so that the current date time is added to the zip file name.
  7. And new zip file is created with the current date and time in its name.
  8. A new zip file will be created every time you run this project.

An another great feature of Copywhiz allows us to schedule any task by choosing the Paste Later option.

Why Copywhiz?

Copywhiz really saves your time and efforts in organizing and moving files. It is also easy to understand and use.

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

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Schedule file copy with repeat options in Copywhiz for Windows

Copywhiz can automatically copy, backup or replicate files at a particular time. Yes you’ve heard it right! Now Copywhiz can schedule file copy or take backup automatically making it so simple and hassle free.

To schedule automatic backups of files, we just have to save them as a Copywhiz project. You can then select the “Paste later” option to schedule a backup of the project.

Schedule your file copy/backup. Repeat backup every few hours/days/weeks.

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.

Here is a short video that depicts the scheduling feature perfectly:

Video Transcription:

  1. This video shows us how to take automatic file back ups at specific time.
  2. Right click and select files into Copywhiz.
  3. Paste the files here, right click and select Copywhiz “Paste Advanced” option.
  4. As you can see in the video, add %date% in the destination folder address, to automatically create a new destination folder each time based on the current date.
  5. add additional folders from here then.
  6. Click on “Paste now”.
  7. To schedule automatic backups of these files, save them as a Copywhiz project.
  8. Then select the option “Paste Later” to schedule this project.
  9. Set the preferred frequency of the backup and then Copywhiz will now automatically take backups.

Automatically schedule backups of files into a new dated folder each time in Windows using Copywhiz. Easy to take incremental backups by scheduling only new & modified files

Why Copywhiz?

Copywhiz really saves your time and efforts in organizing and moving files. It is also easy to understand and use.

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

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Copy files by date, type, file name and file size in Windows using Copywhiz

This post is regarding the feature of Copywhiz which allows us to copy files by date, type, name and size. It makes copying or backing up files so easy where we can segregate files to copy as per our requirements.

Include exclude files/folders by different attributes

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.

Here is a short video that depicts it perfectly:

Video Transcription:

  1. Let’s copy files by date, type, name and size.
  2. As you see in the video, we have multiple folders with many files in them.
  3. Right click and select files into Copywhiz.
  4. Paste the files here, right click and select Copywhiz “Paste Advanced” option.
  5. From the Copywhiz main window open the ‘Advanced Settings’ and select the Source tab.
  6. In the ‘include files’ box, enter the extension ‘.mp3’ to copy only Music files.
  7. Copywhiz shows a Preview that all documents will be excluded and only Music files will be copied.
  8. Click on “Paste now”.
  9. And you see we have pasted only the Mp3 files now.

Copywhiz now allows us to schedule the task by choosing ‘Paste Later’. There are so many new and interesting features which makes copy pasting so easy to use. In this post you can learn to copy particular type of files.

Why Copywhiz?

Copywhiz really saves your time and efforts in organizing and moving files. It is also easy to understand and use.

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

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Copy files to multiple folders or computers in Windows

Hey! This post is all about this new exciting feature which is so helpful and time saving. We can easily copy files to multiple locations (folders or computers) in just few easy steps using Copywhiz for Windows. Isn’t it amazing ?

An image depicting one of the features of Copywhiz:

As you can see in the above image here, select the files using Copywhiz and choose multiple destinations folders. You can also click on the “Add” button or just drag and drop the folder here directly from Windows File Explorer.

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.

Here is a short video that depicts it perfectly:

Video Transciption

  1. Let’s replicate or keep multiple backup copies of the same files automatically, at different locations.
  2. Right click and select files into Copywhiz.
  3. Paste the files here, right click and select Copywhiz “Paste Advanced” option.
  4. Copywhiz main window will open where copied files are listed.
  5. As you can see, current folder already appears in the destination folders.
  6. Add additional folders here by clicking on the “Add” button. Or just drag and drop the folder address directly from Windows file explorer.
  7. Click on “Paste now”.
  8. As shown in the video, the files are being copied simultaneously to both destinations.
  9. The “Paste later” option will let you run this project at specific time.

Copywhiz has really come out with an amazing feature where this way you can replicate or keep multiple backup copies of the same files/folders automatically, at different locations.

Why Copywhiz?

Copywhiz really saves your time and efforts in organizing and moving files. It is also easy to understand and use.

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

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Have a good day!

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Continue file copy/backup even if an error occurs when using Copywhiz

This post is regarding a new feature of copying files/backup even if an error messages occurs, we finally have the option to skip on error and proceed with file copy from the same point.

We have seen many times during our file copy we are often prompted with error messages that abruptly stop the file copy task. Copywhiz finally offers to continue file copying even if error occurs.

An image depicting one of the features of Copywhiz

As the image represents here, it can be tiresome to see an error during file copy now Copywhiz here does not just stop on error it allows you retry or skip that particular file and continue with the file copy.

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 watch this video to learn how:

Video Transcription:

  1. Let’s copy these set of files to another folder.
  2. Right click and select files into Copywhiz.
  3. Before pasting files into destination folder we will delete a file from the source folder.
  4. We will now paste the files to destination folder.
  5. As expected, we shall get an error message as we deleted a file from the source folder.
  6. In the error message pop up. We now have the option to retry copying, skip copying this file or cancel the whole copy task.
  7. We can choose to automatically skip every time when this type of error occurs.
  8. After copying files, Copywhiz generates a log with list of errors.

Copywhiz now gives us full control on your file copy. Extremely useful in quickly organizing, grouping, separating all kinds of documents and files.

Conclusion

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

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Have a good day!

Thanks for reading :)

Adjust file copying speed to improve system performance

Here is a new and a very exciting feature of Copywhiz where you can improve the performance of your PC by adjusting the file copy speed of Copywhiz.

Copying a large set of files uses high level of CPU energy and slows down the system. Improve system performance when copying several large files by adjusting the file copy speed in Windows PC using Copywhiz.

An image depicting one of the features of Copywhiz:

With Copywhiz file copy tool, you can improve the performance of your PC by adjusting the file copy speed.

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.

Here is a short video on this feature:

Video Transcription:

  1. We will start by copying files. Select the files, right click and copy using Copywhiz.
  2. We will now paste these files in the destination folder.
  3. Right click and choose Copywhiz Paste.
  4. Let’s pause file copy, in the options tab here, we have the option to change the speed of this file copy task.
  5. We will slow down the speed one level to improve system performance.
  6. We will now resume the file copy from the same position.
  7. You can see in the video the files are now being copied slower than before.
  8. The files are copied productively.

It’s so convenient to use this app as it makes copy paste so easy and time saving.

Closing comments

This is a really handy feature and very easy to understand and use.

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Save a list of files as copywhiz project and copy same set of files later using Copywhiz

Save files you frequently copy, as a Copywhiz Project, to repeatedly copy them in future without browsing the files.

An image depicting one of the features of Copywhiz:

This helps us to re-run the project anytime in future. This saves a lot of time and we do not have to keep copying the same set of files again and again.

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.

Once you have saved a project you can copy the same set of files whenever required. We work on the same set of files and to take backup each time is tedious and time consuming. So here is the solution.

Here is a short video that shows how to achieve this:

Video Transcription

  1. In this video, we will save list of files as Copywhiz project which we can re-run the project anytime in future.
  2. Copy some files from the folder. Select the files, right click and use Copywhiz to copy them.
  3. Paste the files here, right click and select Copywhiz “Paste Advanced” option.
  4. Copywhiz main window will open where copied files are listed.
  5. To save these files as a Copywhiz project, click on the file menu and choose the ‘Save’ option.
  6. Name your project and save it, for future use.
  7. Now paste the files by clicking “Paste Now”.
  8. Now we will copy the same set of files in a different folder using the Copywhiz project which we saved.
  9. Go to the second destination, right click and run Copywhiz.
  10. Open the file menu again and browse for the copywhiz project saved.
  11. Choose your project and click on ‘Open’ button.
  12. Specify or browse the new destination and paste the files.
  13. The same set of files are again copied in the second folder!

That’s it. This feature is very useful and less time consuming.

Why Copywhiz?

Copywhiz really saves your time and efforts in organizing and moving files. It is also easy to understand and use.

You can also schedule automatic file backups and take incremental backups using Copywhiz.

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

For short tutorial videos, Check out this page.

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Have a good day!

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