Copying: Creating Multiple Copies

Creating Multiple Copies of Files and Folders

Available in both Explore Views and Virtual Folders

Create up to one thousand copies at a time

FileBoss can create up to a thousand copies of each selected item. If a selected item is a folder FileBoss can create up to one thousand copies of that folder and all its contents.

Example: Creating a thousand files in a thousand folders

•	Create an empty folder

•	Create one file or copy one file to that new folder

•	Select the new file and use the Actions \| Duplicate... command from the main menu to create 999 copies of that file (as explained below)

•	Navigate up to the parent folder and select the new folder that contains the 1,000 files

•	Use the Actions \| Duplicate... command again to create 1,000 copies of that folder. (You might want to brew a cup of tea while FileBoss works its magic.)

There will now be 1,000 folders each containing 1,000 files. One million total.

Example: Creating one million files in one folder

•	Create an empty folder

•	Create one file or copy one file to that new folder

•	Select the new file and use the Actions \| Duplicate... command from the main menu to create 999 copies of that file (as explained below)

•	Select the 1,000 files files in that folder and again use the Actions \| Duplicate... command from the main menu to create 999 copies of each of the 1,000 files. (You might want to go and get a cup of coffee while FileBoss does your bidding.)

There will now be 1,000,000 files in the original folder.

Renaming New Files

When FileBoss spins out more than one copy of a file or folder it will add a sequential number to each file according to a pattern you specify.

If you want specific, individual names for each one simply:

Select the newly created files

Use the Actions | Rename | Quick Rename... command from the main menu (or press Ctrl+Shift+R) to start renaming the files one by one (each filename will be displayed in a special small dialog).

The Duplicate Command Center

When you duplicate files and folders a dialog will appear allowing you to specify how the duplicate files will be named. The choices you make here - just like almost all dialogs in FileBoss - will be saved even when FileBoss is closed.

Most significant for creating multiple copies is the Number of Copies field at the bottom of the dialog:

Number of Copies

Specifies how many copies of the file / folder will be made. The maximum number of copies is 1,000. So if 1,000 items are selected and this is set to 1,000 then 1,000,000 items will be created! If one or more of the selected items are a folder many more than 1,000,000 items can be created.

When creating a large number of files (in excess of 500,000) always be aware of special problems affecting large file systems.

For complete information on all the fields and options available in this dialog see Duplicating Files or Duplicating Folders.

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Copying: Creating Multiple Copies

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