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Software to copy search results to another folder?


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Hello,

I was looking for a program to automate a bit of handwork here...

I have a server with plenty of HDDs, and i want to backup all of my docx scattered across multiple partitions/drives/folders to an external drive (folder tree is not really required, its just for backing up).

Up till now what i did is open up "My Computer" then search *.docx and as after it finishes i could select all of the results and copy them to my external drive.

Any chance there's a free program to do the above in scheduled intervals effortlessly? Thanks for any answers!

p.s i could just make a batch file with multiple xcopy's and put it in scheduled tasks, but i'd like something more elegant...:-P

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If you know a bit of c# you could use search everything http://voidtools.com as a faster means of searching for your *.docx files along with the api to search and copy the files or use a simple batch script like this

xcopy c:\*.docx f:\ /S /H /C

That should find all .docx files on C drive and copy them over to F drive (preserving folder structure)

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