{"id":3181,"date":"2018-01-29T13:08:39","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T07:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conceptworld.com\/blog\/?p=3181"},"modified":"2024-06-10T17:45:56","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T12:15:56","slug":"copying-files-to-multiple-destination-folders-in-windows-using-an-xcopy-alternative-replacement-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conceptworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/copying-files-to-multiple-destination-folders-in-windows-using-an-xcopy-alternative-replacement-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Copying files and folders to multiple destination folders in Windows using an Xcopy alternative replacement tool"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Windows: Copy\/Backup files to multiple folders or computers in Windows using Copywhiz\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CCs5JR9kr5s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>People who generally have the habit of taking multiple backups need to follow the lengthy process of copy, paste, copy, paste, and so on. This is not only tiring and boring but also very time-consuming. They would, therefore, want to <strong>copy the files and paste them all at once in all the destinations<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let us find out how this is possible with the Windows <strong>Xcopy tool<\/strong>, and an <strong>alternative software,<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conceptworld.com\/Copywhiz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Copywhiz<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is Copywhiz?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conceptworld.com\/Copywhiz\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.conceptworld.com\/Copywhiz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Copywhiz<\/a> enhances your file-copy experience by letting you to have more flexibility &amp; control over the file copying and backup process. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conceptworld.com\/Copywhiz\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.conceptworld.com\/Copywhiz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Copywhiz<\/a> makes file copying a breeze: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Copy only new or modified files<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Easily pick files by name, extension, folder etc from bunch of folders<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Automatically organize files based on file attributes and metadata<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Copy files to multiple folders\/computers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Copy files from multiple folders and paste them at once<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sync files between source and destination<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pick files from multiple folders and compress in single .zip file<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Schedule file backups<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Verify copied files for data integrity<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Retain security attributes of files &amp; folders (ownership\/user access)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conceptworld.com\/Copywhiz\/Features\" target=\"_blank\">Several more hidden nuggets<\/a>&nbsp;designed to make your file-copy task easier.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Steps to copy files to multiple destinations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Using Xcopy<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The Xcopy command <strong>Xcopy Source [Destination] \/s<\/strong> copies files including all the sub-folders. We will use the For loop to copy files to multiple destinations using this command.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Ex: To copy the file &#8220;project.docx&#8221; into the folders &#8220;personal&#8221; and &#8220;office&#8221; we need to run the below command:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Xcopy \/s<br>For %%a in (<br>&#8220;D:\\backup\\project.pdf&#8221;) do (<br>xcopy \/s &#8220;%%~a&#8221; &#8220;d:\\temp\\personal&#8221;,&#8221;%%~a&#8221; &#8220;d:\\temp\\office&#8221;)<br><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>However, using Xcopy commands are confusing, especially for ordinary users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let me now show you an easier and straightforward way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Using Copywhiz<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch a short video that tells you how to do this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Windows: Copy\/Backup files to multiple folders or computers in Windows using Copywhiz\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CCs5JR9kr5s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For more tutorial videos, <a title=\"Copywhiz Tutorial Videos\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conceptworld.com\/Copywhiz\/Videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">check out this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Video Transcription<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>1. Select the files you wish to copy from it&#8217;s Source folder and right-click on it and choose <em>Copywhiz&#8211;&gt;Copy<\/em> as shown below:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conceptworld.com\/blog\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Copy-Files1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptworld.com\/blog\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Copy-Files.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2673\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conceptworld.com\/blog\/uploads\/2016\/09\/paste-advanced-new1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"571\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptworld.com\/blog\/uploads\/2016\/09\/paste-advanced-new1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2734\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conceptworld.com\/blog\/uploads\/2016\/09\/paste-advanced-new1.png 780w, https:\/\/www.conceptworld.com\/blog\/uploads\/2016\/09\/paste-advanced-new1-300x219.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>2. Go to the destination folder, right-click in it and select Copywhiz\u2013&gt;Paste Advanced. The advanced settings dialogue box will now open.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. Type the name of the folders in which you want the files to be copied and click on <em> Paste Now<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptworld.com\/blog\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screenshot_Copy_Files_To_Multiple_Folders.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4934\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conceptworld.com\/blog\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screenshot_Copy_Files_To_Multiple_Folders.png 550w, https:\/\/www.conceptworld.com\/blog\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screenshot_Copy_Files_To_Multiple_Folders-300x227.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>4. The files will instantly copy to all your mentioned folders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not just that, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conceptworld.com\/Copywhiz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Copywhiz<\/a> even lets you <strong>copy files to multiple computers<\/strong>. This is especially useful when you want to share the same files to multiple systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can even use date variables such as %year%, %month%, %day%, %hour% &amp; %minute% as a part of the folder address to create new destination folders each time. That means you can create new folders instantly while copying and do not have to go to different destinations and create folders each time before copying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is wow!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The most significant advantage of using Copywhiz is that you can take <strong>automatic backups of your files and folders<\/strong>! Read more about it here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-conceptworld-039-s-blog\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Bj5xS5SYg3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conceptworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/automatically-copy-files-in-background-at-specific-time-in-windows\/\">Automatically copy files &#038; folders in background at specific time in Windows<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Automatically copy files &#038; folders in background at specific time in Windows&#8221; &#8212; Conceptworld&#039;s Blog\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/automatically-copy-files-in-background-at-specific-time-in-windows\/embed\/#?secret=ZhDbYchEER#?secret=Bj5xS5SYg3\" data-secret=\"Bj5xS5SYg3\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Subscribe to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCULI5s6KJn-0iDIeqJRUWQA?view_as=subscriber\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube channel<\/a> for regular updates and interesting videos!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conceptworld.com\/Copywhiz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Learn more about<\/a> Copywhiz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Download the free trial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conceptworld.com\/Copywhiz\/Download\">from here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conceptworld.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">other cool products<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have a good day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks for taking the time to read :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People who generally have the habit of taking multiple backups need to follow the lengthy process of copy, paste, copy, paste, and so on. This is not only tiring and boring but also very time-consuming. They would, therefore, want to copy the files and paste them all at once in all the destinations. Let us &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conceptworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/copying-files-to-multiple-destination-folders-in-windows-using-an-xcopy-alternative-replacement-tool\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Copying files and folders to multiple destination folders in Windows using an Xcopy alternative replacement tool<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-3181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copywhiz","tag-xcopy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3181"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7677,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3181\/revisions\/7677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}