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Steve Freides
If I am working on Autocad files, I have to be careful about how I move
things or my drawing will lose the ability to find the other drawings on
which it depends. I also have been known to mess up a file I've taken home
from the network, therefore I am looking for a good way to do the following:
1. Take a folder from my network which has drawing and sub-folders in it -
copy that folder to my local drive on the laptop to work on it over the
weekend. This works OK now - copying an entire folder seems to preserve the
relationship between files, so I keep all the needed drawings in sub-folders
of the main folder for each project I'm working on.
2. On Monday morning, return the entire folder/project to the network, but
have the files/folders on the network backed up and/or renamed first, e.g.,
if my project is in a folder called MyProject, then what I want to happen
when I redock my laptop at work is:
* The folder MyProject gets renamed/copied to MyProject.BAK. (MyProject.BAK
could be deleted if it already exists.)
* The folder from my laptop would be copied onto the network and become the
new MyProject folder.
This would let me have a backup readily available in case, e.g., I messed
something up while working at home.
Is such functionality built into WindowsXP already, or is this something
that needs to be written as a program, or is there a product I can buy to do
this?
Thanks in advance.
-S-
things or my drawing will lose the ability to find the other drawings on
which it depends. I also have been known to mess up a file I've taken home
from the network, therefore I am looking for a good way to do the following:
1. Take a folder from my network which has drawing and sub-folders in it -
copy that folder to my local drive on the laptop to work on it over the
weekend. This works OK now - copying an entire folder seems to preserve the
relationship between files, so I keep all the needed drawings in sub-folders
of the main folder for each project I'm working on.
2. On Monday morning, return the entire folder/project to the network, but
have the files/folders on the network backed up and/or renamed first, e.g.,
if my project is in a folder called MyProject, then what I want to happen
when I redock my laptop at work is:
* The folder MyProject gets renamed/copied to MyProject.BAK. (MyProject.BAK
could be deleted if it already exists.)
* The folder from my laptop would be copied onto the network and become the
new MyProject folder.
This would let me have a backup readily available in case, e.g., I messed
something up while working at home.
Is such functionality built into WindowsXP already, or is this something
that needs to be written as a program, or is there a product I can buy to do
this?
Thanks in advance.
-S-