need simple backup/move software for win 7

[Steve knight]

I spend way too much time with my cnc software moving between directories. Whne I have to save the t oolpaths for my cnc machine I have to go through to the right drive to save it. when I got to save the drawing I have to jump through dirs to get to the right one.
so it would be nice to have a app that took any file extensionin any of the directories I specify move it (or mirror) it to another hard drive. it needs to do it every time a file changes. any idea's free would be best but I would pay some too.

[Matt Meiser]

I'm not sure if it would do what you are looking for but Google Microsoft Sync Toy.

[Steve knight]

that might work. I forgot the target folder I don't want the directories repeated. I want all the files in different sub dirs to be placed in one directory without any sub folders.

[Steve knight]

lets make it simple. I want to pull all the files with a certain extension out of a selected directory and sub directories and move them to another directory/drive and not into matching sub directories but in one directory. this needs to happen upon a file change.

[Matt Meiser]

Do you need it to happen immediately or would within 5-10 minutes work? Or would doubleclicking an icon on the desktop to trigger it? I'm thinking a batch file could do this. You could schedule the batch file every 5-10 minutes and have a shortcut on the desktop when you need it to happen right now.

Is the list of source sub-directories fixed or does it vary?

You need to be careful with on change/on create stuff. File locking can be a problem and you want to make sure the app writing the file might not be done when you notice the file change. I wrote an app that detects a new file and streams the contents to a serial port for one of my customers and we had issues in testing with the files not being done yet.

[Steve knight]

the directories do change once in awhile. but the files are small like 3 megs is a large one.
what took care of a lot of is is in the same as window I had a app that let me add things to it so I could just click on the drive icon and be right there. but it only worked in the beta version of win 7.
maybe the easiest way is to make a directory to save the toolpaths that's in the main directory and have my other computer access that. what the program needs is default directories to save each thing.

[Chris Parks]

xplorer2 is a multi pane / tabbed file management app. The advantage is you can have many different drives open and move things as you want. A simple find function will find any extension in the parent and sub folders, I use the find function for this specific purpose finding thousands of files in a directory in one operation.
http://zabkat.com/