Looking for an advanced Windows Explorer program....

[StykFacE]

I will try and explain this as best as possible.

The situation is this: At my company we have a server that houses all of our job folders. Our active jobs usually last between 2-6 months, and then they get archived. Please click the images below to get an idea of our job numbering system:

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So here's the thing. We have an exact duplicate of this archive drive, and all the directories are the same. However, on this duplicate drive, it houses ONLY our AutoCAD files for our "drawing archive". On the original archive drive, it houses all Word/Excel documents, Outlook files, PDF's, and a few other file types that we use.



Now here's what I'm trying to accomplish.

Jobs that we've done that are 2 years old and older don't have the split archiving system, where one drive has only AutoCAD files and the other has the rest of our documents. It's actually rolled all into one job folder with everything mixed. Well, we are in the process of going to each job folder, cut/pasting the AutoCAD files over to the 2nd archiving drive and create all the folders for each job. Beings that we have literally thousands of jobs, this could take a while.

So I'm looking for an advanced Windows Explorer management software that can duplicate all the folders in a directory to a new directory, and only copy certain filetype extensions. All I'm wanting to grab is just the AutoCAD files which are a *.DWG file extension.

Is there something like this that exists? Thanks in advance for all who can help.

[StykFacE]

Bump.

Anyone out there know anything?

[EzyStvy]

Wouldn't a "sync'ing" type software do the trick?

I haven't used one in a long time....But as I recall, you tell it to compare two drives/folders/locations and it copies as needed.

[Statica]

Something like: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...o/synctoy.mspx

[StykFacE]

God I love this forum. That saved literally hours and hours worth of manual syncing. EzyStvy & Statica - I salute you. Worked like a charm.

I always say this: If you have to do something on a computer that's repetitive, there's probably something out there to make the job easier. Thanks again guys, mucho gracias.

[glc]

After the fact, you probably could have used a command prompt to do it.

move (path) *.dwg (new path)

DOS is still alive and kicking - it's just buried behind the scenes.