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Question about foobar copying and skipping of files |
Oct 12 2012, 02:23
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Hi everybody, and sorry if this has been asked before.
Is there a way for foobar to skip a file during a batch copy operation if the file already exists in the destination directory ? Long version below : I have about 45.000 files in my music library, all of them stored in a secure & crypted NAS. I need to keep in my laptop an ever-evolving playlist of about 1.500 files (FLAC and mp3). This weights about 20 GB. Everytime I need to update the laptop contents, I have to erase everything in the laptop and copy the whole 1500 files again, which takes more than an hour (for crypting reasons), even if I have only added/changed a few files. I'd love if the "copy" function of foobar could just skip a file if the file already exists, without stopping the whole operation. Can this be achieved in some way, and how ? Thanks in advance. This post has been edited by wcs13: Oct 12 2012, 02:26 |
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Oct 12 2012, 05:01
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QUOTE I'd love if the "copy" function of foobar could just skip a file if the file already exists, without stopping the whole operation. When I use File Operations to copy or move a file, I use strings to create the destination file name. Example: %genre%\%album artist%\'['%date%']' %album%\Track #$num(%discnumber%,2)$num(%tracknumber%,2) If the destination file already exists, it's skipped. It doesn't stop the entire copy/move process. I don't know what you're doing wrong. |
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