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.
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.
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.
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.
Hope you all are enjoying using Notezilla sticky notes on your PCs and Phones.
Thank you for all the positive responses and good ratings of the app.
Sometime back, we added a new feature to Notezilla. You can now reply to the sender of a sticky note directly from the sticky note.
After receiving a Notezilla sticky note from your contacts, reply to them directly from the note instead of postponing it for later through the mail, call or other sources.
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
This article will cover details of all the changes we made in the new update.
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
What’s New?
Faster sync of sticky notes across all devices: Yes, you read that right! Notezilla on Windows now syncs every minute. This improved frequency gives the advantage of faster updates on all the other devices too. Receiving sticky notes from your contacts is also faster now. It will help improve productivity and efficiency of tasks.
Hide notes on Show Desktop (Win+D): Your desktop sticky notes will no longer disappear when using the “Show Desktop” (Win+D) feature of Windows. Using the newly added “Hide notes on Show Desktop” (Win+D) feature, if you disable this particular option, then the sticky notes will always remain visible on your desktop when using the “Show Desktop” (Win+D) feature. A small yet convenient feature.
Blank sticky notes deleted permanently: Unlike the earlier version where a blank note deleted was sent to the trash folder/memo board, the new version permanently deletes blank notes. The trash memoboard doesn’t fill up unnecessarily.
Default Hotkeys now modified: The default hotkeys of Notezilla have been modified as they were conflicting with shortcut keys of other popular apps like Windows. You can now use the Hotkeys along with other apps, without any disturbance.
Product Notifications: Product news, updates and offers will be shown from within the app, automatically when needed.
Sticky note skins with better gradient: The “Classic Gradient” skin has better gradient now. It improves the look of your sticky note making it more attractive.
We have improved
We have fixed many bugs since our previous version based on suggestions and feedback from users because we believe in consistently improving over time.
Updated app skin for “Due Date Window”: The overall look of the app has improved to make it more comfortable to read the dates inside the ‘Set Due Date’ window and making it easier to set reminders to your Notezilla sticky notes.
Easier formatting of checklist sticky notes: Earlier’ when a checklist note was updated from the phone, the format (strike-through) of that note on Windows desktop was frequently lost after sync. This problem will no longer occur. We have also improved the checklist feature in our mobile apps.
Other bugs fixed:
Day light saving issue fixed.
The first 2 columns of a memoboard sometimes lost the icons after sync. This is fixed.
The trash prompt message did not appear on top of the sticky note when trashed from reminder window in the earlier version. This is fixed.
Improved usability and User Interface in many prominent areas.
You can check out the latest update by downloading and installing it from here.
Also, this new update is free for all our existing customers.
We hope you love Notezilla even more after trying out the update. Feedback and suggestions invited.
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:
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, 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.
Also enable the option “Paste all files to a single folder”.
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”.
Your files will be copied to the destination folder all at once and also automatically deleted from the source folder.
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.
Excluding certain folders when copying files has several advantages. You can save disk space, get rid of unwanted and temporary files, and save time in copying & backing up of files. Also, handling a smaller file set is much more comfortable.
Let us see how to do this 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.
An image depicting one of the features of Copywhiz
Steps to exclude specific folders when copying files
Using Robocopy
Robocopy Source Destination/XD dirs [dirs]… command lets us to specify a list of directories (folders) containing strings to be excluded. These strings are not entered directly in the command switch. They are one or more text files that list the strings to be excluded.
For Ex: To copy files from “projects” folder to the folder “backup”, by excluding certain type of folders, say, the ones having your personal information, the following command line will be used:
But these Robocopy commands are not straightforward. System administrators may be able to use it. Robocopy is quite difficult for ordinary users. Instead, let me show you a more comfortable and faster way to do this.
Using Copywhiz
Watch a short video describing 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 then select the “Exclude folders” option. 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.
4. Click on “OK” and then “Paste Now” to complete file copying.
Conclusion
Copywhiz lets you choose which type of files to copy and which to ignore – i.e, it lets you to do ‘Selective File Copy’. Pick only those files and folders that are important and avoid the ones not required with Copywhiz. Easily filter files by name, extension, folder, etc. from a bunch of folders.
Complete big file copy tasks with just a few clicks and save manual effort with Copywhiz.
The biggest advantage of using Copywhiz is that you can take automatic backups of your files and folders! Read more about it here:
This post will tell you how to send a sticky note to other PC (computers) in Windows using it’s IP address. We will be using Notezilla for this purpose.
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
Send sticky notes through LAN
One really helpful feature of Notezilla is that you can send sticky notes to any contact across the globe. Your contact may be in the same network (LAN) or over the Internet. You can also send sticky notes to a group of contacts at once.
This is easier and faster than communication through the mail. Also, to maintain privacy & security, the sticky notes will be sent internally over the local network using the recipient’s computer name or IP address.
Sending notes through the computer name is a good option when you have a lot of computers to send notes. But what if you don’t know the names of all the computers? Just specify the IP address. You may even want to send the note to a particular computer rather than one specific person. You are thereby ensuring that the note reaches the computer regardless of who is using it.
Watch a short video that shows how you can do this:
To send a Notezilla sticky note using the IP address:
Select a sticky note in Notezilla, right click on its title/toolbar and choose ‘Send To->Computer’ from the menu.
A ‘Computers’ window will be displayed. Click on the ‘Manage Computers’ button to add a new computer or edit the existing ones.
Click on the ‘Add Computer’ button and add computer details in the text box. The format will be – First name, Last name, computer name. Here, instead of the computer name, you can specify IP address also.
Click on ‘Next -> Finish’ and finally select the ‘Send Now’ option.
Your sticky notes will be instantly sent to the computer(s).
Allow Notezilla through Windows Firewall
Here are some points to ensure that the sticky note reaches successfully on another PC.
Notezilla should be installed on another PC also to receive the sticky note.
If you are sending a note from Computer A to Computer B. Then Computer A should have Computer B in its computers list. It ensures that the firewall is configured correctly. On Computer B, go to a sticky note and select “Send To Computers” and ensure that you have added Computer A. Only then you must attempt to send the note from Computer A to Computer B.
To troubleshoot further, make sure to configure your PC firewall to allow the running of Notezilla. The firewall on the PC might sometimes not allow to send or receive notes.
You can search ‘firewall’ in the Windows search box, and you will see “Allow an app through Windows Firewall.” Choose this option and enable Notezilla. If Notezilla is not listed, then click on ‘Allow another app’ and add Notezilla.
If you are using any other Firewall tool (usually included with Anti-Virus software), then you will have to configure that firewall.
Make sure you do this on both sending and receiving computer.
This way your contacts will receive the sticky note right on their desktop if they are a Notezilla user. If not, they will receive the note as an email. The note will reach safely even if the receiving computer is turned off.
This video will tell you how to sync and access Internet bookmarks and history from all the major browsers like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and Internet Explorer all in a single place using RecentX.
What is RecentX?
RecentX is a smart launcher for Windows designed to make your computing life joyful. Here are some of the many cool things you can do with RecentX:
Effortlessly access any file, folder or program on Windows in less than 5 seconds!
Assign tags to frequently used files/folders. Makes things even faster.
Integrates with Windows File open/save window so that you don’t have to navigate any folder when opening or saving a document.
It has a clipboard manager too that remembers all the text & pictures copied to a clipboard so that you can quickly pick & paste them again.
RecentX keeps a record of your browser bookmarks and history and lists them out for you. You can also open a bookmark/website in any browser of your choice.
This is how you can do it:
Transcription
Open the “Websites” window of RecentX. All your website history and bookmarks will be listed there.
You can even toggle between bookmarks and history by using the F7 button.
To understand how this works, let’s first check the bookmarks in your browser(s).
Now let’s launch these bookmarks directly from RecentX. Just type a few keywords in the search box, and the bookmarks will be listed. They will be filtered as you keep typing them.
To open a website in any browser, right-click on it from the list and select “Open With” and choose the desired browser.
To further enhance your browsing experience, you can add tags to websites you frequently visit. This way you can access them easily using the tags assigned.
You no longer need to access your Internet browser’s cluttered bookmarks and history menus.
File copy occupies a lot of our time and effort every day. While this is manageable for limited files but not when there are multiple files (sometimes running to thousands).
It takes a lot of time and effort to find, sort, select, and copy files. Also, if the file with the same name already exists, it becomes even more tiring to find it and replace it with the latest version of that file. It is therefore wiser to copy only new or modified files.
It would be best if you left out the idea of doing this manually. You can try doing this using commands like Robocopy or Xcopy. Or use a file copy software that will do it easily and quickly for you. But not every software offers this feature, and even if it does, it cannot with the required flexibility and speed.
We therefore bring a file copy software that will do it for you in just a few minutes: Copywhiz. Using Copywhiz, copy only files that have been recently modified, leaving out the older ones completely.
Let us first see how to do this using Robocopy and then using Copywhiz, so that you can decide it yourself.
What is Copywhiz?
Copywhiz enhances your file-copy experience by letting you to have more flexibility & control over the file copying and backup process.
Steps to copy only changed files (new and modified)
Using Robocopy
The Robocopy command Robocopy Source [Destination] /XO :[YYYYMMDD] copies all Source files changed on or after the specified date only. This command-line option allows you to update files that have changed.
For Ex: To copy all the files in the directory ‘E:data’ that are modified on or after 1 st January 2018 to the folder ‘E:\backup’, the following command line will be used:
However, commands like Robocopy are not that easy. System administrators may be able to use it. But ordinary users will find it difficult. Instead, I will show you how to do it very quickly/easily using Copywhiz.
Using Copywhiz
Here is a short video that depicts how to do it easily in Windows using Copywhiz:
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. Right-click inside the destination folder where you wish to copy the files and select Copywhiz–>Paste Advanced.
3. Copywhiz Window will open. Click on the ‘Advanced Settings’ button and select “Automatically identify & paste only new or modified files” and click ‘OK.’
4. If the same folder already exists in the destination, then only new or modified files will be replaced, and the others are skipped, saving a lot of time.
Copywhiz automatically detects new & changed files making the whole process very quick.
Alternatively, you can copy files based on specific dates (date modified, date created, date accessed).
To Conclude
What could take several hours if done manually, Copywhiz completes it in few seconds! Specify the file date type and date range so that the files are copied based on the date criteria.
This feature is handy while sharing/uploading only recently modified files or even to pick the latest music/pictures from multiple folders.
The most significant advantage of using Copywhiz is that you can take automatic backups of your files and folders! Read more about it here:
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.
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.
