HELP! Duplicate (outdated) files appear!

[ilsonoro]

I´ve built a new computer for my wife and (yeah, I know I´m stupid) installed Win7 on it because been using it (build7100) for a while and it runs smooth, fast and stable.
But I´ve copied all her "old hard drive" work´s files to a flash drive and then copied it to the new Win7 machine.
On the old machine she created files inside a folder and a day later she separed (moved) those files in different sub folders to make them more organized.
But when copied to the new Win7 machine suddenly she noticed that the files now are duplicated, inside the original folder and inside the sub folders. It´s as if the old version of the files (the one that where outside the sub folder) suddenly appeared on the original folder, AND on the sub folders (but obviosly they have differend "modified" date stamp, differing only in one day, as she created and moved those files with one day difference). Hope I´ve made myself enogh clear.....
Thanks in advance!

 

[Avien]

Not sure what to say. It could have been a misclick with the mouse while holding ctrl, there might have been some system restore thingy going on, or something else i cant think of. Have you made sure you have hidden files not shown and the files that she moved are in fact the files and not shortcuts?

 

[ilsonoro]

Not sure what to say. It could have been a misclick with the mouse while holding ctrl, there might have been some system restore thingy going on, or something else i cant think of. Have you made sure you have hidden files not shown and the files that she moved are in fact the files and not shortcuts?

No misclick posible as I copied them with "Send To>Kingston Data Traveler". Never done a system restore. It´s so strange.... now my wife wants to go back to XP cos she says that she can´t trust Win7....

 

[Avien]

Have you tried deleting the duplicated again that aren't organized and seeing if they reappear? I am assuming the 7100 was a clean install as well.

 

[ilsonoro]

Have you tried deleting the duplicated again that aren't organized and seeing if they reappear? I am assuming the 7100 was a clean install as well.

When I delete them they dont appear again (thank god).
And yes, it was a clean fresh install.

 

[Avien]

Have you tried restarting the computer since you deleted them to make sure they are not coming back?

 

[ilsonoro]

Have you tried restarting the computer since you deleted them to make sure they are not coming back?

Yep.

 

[Avien]

Glad it is working correctly now. Now you don't have to go back to XP.

 

[zigzag3143]

Dup FIles

The files are exactly the same in contents? You want to "organize" them in folders so there is only 1 copy of each? There are several apps that will match the contents of one folder to another so you could pour the folder (and all sub folders) to another location where the folder structure would be the same and the contents would contain only 1 of each file. Is that right?

You could check out folder match and folder clone. Both do that really easily

If I misunderstood and you want to do something else let me know

Good luck

Ken

 

[ilsonoro]

Glad it is working correctly now. Now you don't have to go back to XP.

Yeah, it's working ok (or at least it seems) but anyway I have now to figure out wich file was at folder root level and wich one was not there before......

 

[ilsonoro]

The files are exactly the same in contents? You want to "organize" them in folders so there is only 1 copy of each? There are several apps that will match the contents of one folder to another so you could pour the folder (and all sub folders) to another location where the folder structure would be the same and the contents would contain only 1 of each file. Is that right?

You could check out folder match and folder clone. Both do that really easily

If I misunderstood and you want to do something else let me know

Good luck

Ken

Actually let's say I have a root folder (on the "old" PC), let's call it "IN PROGRESS"
Now I create a number of documents, lets say 10 docs.
At the day after that I move files 1, 3, 6, 8 & 9 to an "IN PROGRESS" sub folder called "READY TO PRINT", and leave 2 & 5 on the root and move 4, 7 & 10 to another folder called "READY TO SEND".
I copy then the "IN PROGRESS" folder to a Kingston flash drive via "Send To" command under the right click menu.
Then copy those files to the new "Win7"PC. And then my wife discovered that now she has al the files not only in their corresponding folder, they are in the "in progress" root folder, but this ones has the modified date set to the day before I've moved them.

So, putting aside the assle to order all of them now and check wich ones have been trully modified and wich ones not, I really hope that i'll never happens again!

 

[zigzag3143]

dup files

Ouch

I assume you want the newest version of each. BTW that sounds an aweful lot like groupware. Where every one works on the same doc and it stays sync'ed etc.

My condolences for the organizational nightmare. I've been thru a couple of those myself.

Ken

 

[Avien]

Sounds like a problem with the flash drive? You only copy "IN PROGRESS" yet all the others appear with it, even though you did not copy them specifically?

 

[ilsonoro]

Sounds like a problem with the flash drive? You only copy "IN PROGRESS" yet all the others appear with it, even though you did not copy them specifically?

Yes. To meake it clearer, I´ve right clicked on IN PROGRESS and then SEND TO (on the right click context menu) and just selected Kingston.