Merge Directories
Many people may have several backup copies of files. Possibly on external disk drives, or different directories. In order to save disk space, it cold be useful to merge these, but in doing so, there is a danger that previous file versions are overwritten and lost.
CnW FM feature will merge in an intellegent way. Files will be compared for contents, and not just size. If a file is different the new 'master' file will be the one withe the newest date, and older version will be renamed such as file_name[20240531].ext. Optionally, the original duplicated file will be deleted (not implemented yet). The [..] syntax is the date [YYYYMMDD]
The operation is very simple, just select the two directories (or drives) to be merged. To be slightly safer, it will only process files within the same directory structure. This means we will mix files from different sources. An example could be a jpg called img_1234.jpg from directory March 2024 will not be confused with the same name file from February 2021.
Example
Disk A
File1.docx, 98234 bytes, date 4 June 2024
Disk B
File1.docx , 98200 bytes, date 15 Sept 2025
Final result
File1.docx, 98200 bytes, 15th September
File1[20240604.docx] bytes 98234, Date 4 June 2024
This feature is currently under development - beta version March 2026.