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Lazy man's question about file copying
Just finished setting up a new W7 system and I want to selectively copy a large number of Word docs.
My new system's main drive is a 240Gb SSD (which I'm trying to keep uncluttered) and I've mounted three other regular SATA HDDs that contain archived collections of documents.
An 'Everything' search of my system reveals around 30,000 Word docs that are stored on the three support drives.
Many docs are duplicates. For example, because of past backups, and subsequent backups of backups, there might be 4 or 5 copies of file 'XYZ.doc' in these archives.
My aim is to locate just ONE copy of each duplicated doc and copy it to a new folder on my SSD.
Question: Does anyone know of software that could make this process as simple as possible?
Obviously, I can manually locate the files with 'Everything' or Windows search, but I don't want to have to deal with every file individually. Even if there are 5 duplicates of each file, there are still 6,000 files to locate and copy.
Hey, what I'm asking might be impossible, but if you don't ask, you don't get