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24th September 2005, 20:59 | #1 | Link |
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Backing up small files only
I'm trying to backup all my video work -- much of it AVISynth but also projects in DVD authoring programs, etc. It's getting to be a bit of a nightmare because I have way too many files -- circa 250 AVISynth scripts alone. I can't back everything up because there are a lot of semi-large files, often (but not always) video files generated from scripts. This is all split across a number of directories.
My question is this: is there an easy way to back up the small files only, preserving the directory structure? More specifically, can anyone think of the way in which I can select files from smallest upwards to fit e.g. exactly 700 MB? (Even better would be to forced inclusion of certain relatively large file types, such as Excel worksheets... but this is perhaps getting unrealistic.) Thanks! M. |
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25th September 2005, 00:50 | #3 | Link | |
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27th September 2005, 17:09 | #5 | Link |
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@Doobie,
Thank you... it's a clever idea. Unfortunately, when I try selecting that many files, explorer.exe crashes... it has happened twice now but I will try and find workaround, because the method seems worth pursuing. @setarip_old, There is rather too much data to manage it like that unless there really is no alternative... @Shinigami-Sama, There doesn't seem to be any way to filter files by size? |
29th September 2005, 00:43 | #8 | Link |
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Shinigami-Sama, unfortunately the search terms are too common -- they bring up all sorts of unrelated material.
movax, when I selected that many files, explorer.exe crashed before I could drag them into WinRAR. |
29th September 2005, 04:48 | #10 | Link |
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I hope this isn't too obvious but, how about creating the directory using the DOS command. You can create a text file of your directory sorted by size. For example (in the DOS command mode) type: dir/os >directory.txt
This will list all of your files in the directory that you type this command with the smallest file listed first.
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