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This article will update you on how to create a new destination folder each time for the files you copy, while copying files in Windows.

Why new folders each time?

It is always advisable for multiple backups of your files. Data loss can happen in many ways; the most common causes are physical failure of your PC, accidental errors, theft, or even natural disasters.

Computer viruses too often delete or corrupt your data. Also, multiple versions of file backups are essential because users might need to restore a file from different points in time.

This is not directly possible with the Windows Xcopy tool.

You can therefore use an alternative software, Copywhiz to do that in an easier and faster way. It is really straightforward and can be understood even by a beginner.

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 in a new folder each time

Watch a short video on this feature:

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Video Transcription

1. Select the files from the Source folder and right-click on it 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 the current date to the folder name.

4. Once the variables are added, click on ‘Paste Now,’ and it will automatically create a new folder based on the current date.

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 taking backups.

Conclusion

Copywhiz is an alternative that lets you create a new destination folder (date-wise) for every file backup. This way, you can ensure that multiple versions of your backups are maintained. It uses Windows Task Scheduler to schedule your backups.

Configure Copywhiz to copy files at a particular time. Using Copywhiz’s scheduling capability, you can back up your files every week, every day, or even every hour.

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People who generally have the habit of taking multiple backups need to follow the lengthy process of copy, paste, copy, paste, and so on. This is not only tiring and boring but also very time-consuming. They would, therefore, want to copy the files and paste them all at once in all the destinations.

Let us find out how this is possible with the Windows Xcopy 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 to multiple destinations

Using Xcopy

The Xcopy command Xcopy Source [Destination] /s copies files including all the sub-folders. We will use the For loop to copy files to multiple destinations using this command.

For Ex: To copy the file “project.docx” into the folders “personal” and “office” we need to run the below command:

Xcopy /s
For %%a in (
“D:\backup\project.pdf”) do (
xcopy /s “%%~a” “d:\temp\personal”,”%%~a” “d:\temp\office”)

However, using Xcopy commands are confusing, especially for ordinary users.

Let me now show you an easier and straightforward way.

Using Copywhiz

Watch a short video that tells you how to do this:

For more tutorial videos, check out this page.

Video Transcription

1. Select the files you wish to copy from it’s Source folder and right-click on it and choose Copywhiz–>Copy as shown below:

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

3. Type the name of the folders in which you want the files to be copied and click on Paste Now.

4. The files will instantly copy to all your mentioned folders.

Not just that, Copywhiz even lets you copy files to multiple computers. This is especially useful when you want to share the same files to multiple systems.

You can even use date variables such as %year%, %month%, %day%, %hour% & %minute% as a part of the folder address to create new destination folders each time. That means you can create new folders instantly while copying and do not have to go to different destinations and create folders each time before copying.

This is wow!

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

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This post will show you how to exclude empty folders from the file copying process in Windows — thus making it a lot easier while copying all your important files.

Why would someone want to remove empty folders?

Removing the empty folders ensures that you don’t spend more time looking for files inside them. You keep the folder structure clean and relevant.

Let us find out how to do this using the Windows Xcopy 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 exclude empty folders

Using Xcopy

The Xcopy command Xcopy Source [Destination] /S copies directories and subdirectories except empty ones. This implies that all the folders will be copied except the empty ones.

For Ex: To copy all contents from the folder “projects” to the folder “backup” except the empty folders, the following command line will be used:

xcopy d:\projects e:\backup /S

This command will copy all the folders leaving out those with no files in them.

But these commands are not so easy. System administrators use it, but Xcopy is really hard for ordinary users.

Let me show an easier and straightforward way to do this.

Using Copywhiz

1. Select the files to be copied from the Source folder and right-click on it and choose Copywhiz–>Copy as shown below:

2. Go to the destination folder, right-click inside the folder and select Copywhiz–>Paste Advanced as shown below:

3. Copywhiz Window will open. Click on the ‘Advanced Settings’ button and select “Do not keep empty folders” and click ‘OK.’

4. Click on the “Paste Now” button. Your files would have been copied even before you go to the destination and check for them. This is the added advantage of high speed.

Conclusion

You now know how Copywhiz makes the whole process a lot more fun and easy in just a few clicks.

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

For more tutorial videos, click here .

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

Learn more about Copywhiz.

Download the free trial from here.

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Have a good day.

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This post will explain to you how to copy files from different folders located at different places, into a single folder or location, you want to keep them in.

Why copy everything in a single folder?

Want to share your favorite photos, music, and videos with your friend but have to copy the whole folder while sharing?

You have no option to do this since you fear that without that, you will have to go through the tiring process of going into each folder and search from the long list and select the ones you want one by one. Sounds tiring already.

This is why creating a single folder to store these files is needed. All files will go into a single folder without creating any sub-folders.

Let us look at this using the Windows Xcopy 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 in a single location

Using Xcopy

Xcopy Source [Destination] /s command lets us to Copy files from different locations to a single destination folder.

For Ex: To copy the files “project.docx” and “logo.png” to a single folder “saved pictures,” the following command line will be used:

For %%a in (
“D:\backup\project.docx”
“D:\project\logo.png”
) do (
xcopy /s “%%~a” “d:\pictures\saved pictures”
)

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

Let us look at a more straightforward and simple way to do this.

Using Copywhiz

Watch a short video that perfectly depicts this:

For more tutorial videos, check out this page.

Video Transcription

1. Select files to be copied from the Source folder and right-click on it 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 until now 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.

This is how Copywhiz lets you select multiple files from various folders and paste them in one desired folder in a very easy and fast manner.

Conclusion

This feature is handy when we have all our music/pictures scattered in different folders that we may want to bring into a single folder. Or we may want to pick only specific types of files & copy them all in one folder.

This also saves you a lot of time.

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 your time :)

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