Category: Copywhiz

Today you will learn about a quick shortcut using which Handy way to replace an existing file with another file keeping the file name same. With this feature, we reduce 5 long steps to just 2 quick steps. This is possible using the file copy 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.

Copy file and paste as another file in few steps

Before you proceed to read the steps, check this short video perfectly depicting this feature:

Steps:

1. Right-click on the file that needs to be copied and choose Copywhiz–>Copy from the menu as shown below:

2. Go to the destination folder, right-click on the file that needs to be replaced and select Copywhiz–>Paste Special.

3. Under the Paste Special, you will find the option ‘Paste as (new file -> old file)’ as shown below.

4. The old file will be replaced, keeping its name intact. You will be intimidated with a pop-up, and also, a sound plays indicating successful completion of a file copy task.

Conclusion

What took a lot of time earlier using the Windows file copy, Copywhiz does the same task in just a few clicks. It reduces all the extra steps and lets you copy one file as another file and also keeps the name of the old file unchanged.

It’s that simple and easy.

It is thus a convenient tool for file copy and automatically taking scheduled & incremental backups.

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This post will tell you how to view error logs for your file copying process using Copywhiz.

The need for an error log

We all often encounter errors when copying our files in Windows. We, at times, don’t understand where the error is or what exactly is the error. An error log (record of critical errors) is therefore necessary for such situations. This lists all your errors so that you can track down the cause.

Just use Copywhiz to do this.

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 show error log

Watch a short video depicting this feature:

1. Go to Advanced Settings after selecting your files in Copywhiz.

1. Click on the “General” Tab which is next to the Filter Tab.
2. By selecting the “Show log” option, all the errors will be instantly logged, i.e., shown as a list.

1. Click on ‘OK’ and Paste Now.

Copywhiz helps you solve one more problem you frequently encounter: disk full. It will show you how much space is to be set free to continue your file copying without any worries.

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This post will brief you on how to directly rename the file being copied when a file with the same name already exists in the destination folder. This can be magically done using the tool Copywhiz.

Getting an error pop up telling, “A file with the same name already exists” is common in your daily file copying process. Manually changing the name is OK when there are limited files. It is, however, not practical with a large number of files.

You should therefore try Copywhiz that lets you automatically rename the file being copied or the destination file. You can do this while the files are being copied or pre-configure it so that you are not interrupted.

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 rename source file during file name conflict

1. When an error message pops up, click on the Advanced Settings option of Copywhiz.

1. Click on the ‘General’ Tab which is next to the Filter Tab.
2. Under the File Replace options, select ‘Rename Source file’.

1. Click on OK and Paste Now.

This feature is a time saver and also very easy. File copying is no longer tiring all thanks to Copywhiz.

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

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This post will tell you how to copy files to your phone or tablet devices using Copywhiz.

Many of our Copywhiz users frequently ask us how to use Copywhiz to copy files to phone or tablet devices. Well, currently, phone or tablet devices are not directly supported by Copywhiz.

But we have an easy fix for this too. The trick here is to first copy all the required files in a temporary folder on a local hard drive and then move the temporary folder to your phone/tablet using regular copy paste. Why are we using Copywhiz? So that you can avail of its advanced filter features like copying by file type, file name, file size, or file date. Example: You may want to copy only the music files to your phone. So you would filter by .mp3.

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 follow:

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

1. Go to a local folder (temporary folder on your hard drive), click Copywhiz–> Paste Advanced. The Advanced Settings dialogue box will open. This can be done to configure the Advanced Settings options before pasting the files since you may want to filter out some files. Click “OK” when you are done.

1. Now, click on Paste Now button from Copywhiz window or Go to the local temporary folder and select em>Copywhiz–>Paste as shown below:

   

2. You now only have to move this local folder to your phone’s hard drive using the regular Windows File Explorer.
3. And ta-da! All the files you wanted are now in your phone or tablet.

It is really easy and comfortable. All this will be done in just a few steps. All thanks to Copywhiz.

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This post will tell you on how to copy files from various different locations and paste them in a single folder using Copywhiz.

When copying lots of files, you always have to copy, then paste, again copy and paste and keep going on. It gets so tiring, boring, and not to forget too time-consuming. With Copywhiz, keep copying files (selecting files) and paste them all at once. You can copy, copy, copy, and paste altogether.

This option is the best when all your files are scattered in different places.

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 from multiple destinations and paste in a single destination

Watch a short video telling more about this feature :

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

2. Keep adding files from different folders by clicking on “Copy (Add to queue).” You can see the total number of files copied so far in the “show items” menu.

3. Right-click inside the destination folder where you wish to copy the files and select Copywhiz–>Paste . You could even use ctrl+shift+v.

4. All the files copied will be pasted in the destination folder all at once.

Once you get used to copying files this way using Copywhiz, the usual lengthy process you used to do will feel so ridiculous.

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When copying files in Windows, it can save a lot of time if you can skip identical files. When both source and destination files are the same. This can be done using a powerful file copy/backup tool for Windows called Copywhiz.

In addition to this you can rename the source or destination file using Copywhiz. Here is a video if you want to know more:

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 skip identical files

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

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

3.Click on the ‘General’ Tab which is next to the Filter Tab.

4. Under the File Replace options, select ‘Skip if both files are identical.’ This option skips all those files that already have files similar to them.

5. Click on ‘OK’ and ‘Paste Now’

It not only saves disk space by skipping extra files to be copied but also saves a lot of your time and effort. All thanks to Copywhiz.

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This post will tell you how to take a backup of your important files, each time into different folder in Windows. Using Copywhiz, cool file copy and backup app for Windows.

An essential feature of a file backup tool is to take backup in a separate folder every time. This ensures that you have multiple versions of the same file set for safety.

Copywhiz can help you do this.

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 a short video depicting this feature:

Steps to copy files to a new folder each time:

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

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

3. Copywhiz window will open with the destination folder already selected. You can suffix the destination folder with %date% or %datetime% to add current date to the folder name. This way, you can later find them using the date created.

4. Once the variables are added, click on ‘OK’ and ‘Paste Now,’ and a new folder will automatically be created based on the current date/time you specified.

5. You can save the selected files as a Copywhiz project and schedule a backup of the same set of files by clicking on the ‘Paste later (Schedule)’ button. Once clicked, the following Window will appear that will let you set your preferred backup frequency. After setting your preferred frequency, click on ‘Schedule Now’ so that Copywhiz automatically runs the projects at a specified time for creating multiple copies.

With Copywhiz, the copies will be created from time to time automatically even after you modify the files later on. You can create copies of your files every week, every day, or even every hour. You now have a complete file backup solution.

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This post will tell how to delete certain files from specific folders without much efforts and time.

I recently came across an old folder on my system, which had a lot of my old songs and essential pictures. I don’t need the songs — just the photos.

I now had two options:

1. Go to each folder of the whole folder tree, and manually delete all the pictures.

2. Use Copywhiz, a file copy app for Windows.

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.

The trick is moving specific types of files (only pictures in our case) to another folder. Moving means deleting from the source folder after copying it to the destination folder. Later we can delete the destination folder. This way, we are achieving our goal to eliminate specific types of files from the whole folder tree.

Steps to delete specific type of files

Here is a short video depicting this feature:

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, click Copywhiz–> Paste Advanced. The Copywhiz main window will open. Click on the Advanced Settings tab and type the name or type of files to copy under “Include Files.” (in our case, the file extension of the pictures)

   Tip: You can even preview the files that will be copied before actually copying them to stay safe. Just click on the “Preview” button in the bottom right corner.

   

3. Also enable the option “Paste all files to a single folder”.
   

   

4. Click OK. You will come back to the Copywhiz main window. Under the paste options, select, “Paste and delete original (move).” Click on “Paste Now”.

   

5. Your files will be copied to the destination folder all at once and also automatically deleted from the source folder.
6. You can now delete the destination folder since the files not required are all in that. So the source folder will be left with only the files you require.

Through this method, your important files are left untouched, and all the unwanted files deleted together! Thus Copywhiz easily helped copy my files from a large number of folders and sub-folders. Thus saving me from the tedious task of scrolling through multiple files and folders.

Learn more about Copywhiz. You can download the free trial from here.

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