jcb@wucs1.wustl.edu (James Christopher Beard) (02/12/91)
BACKGROUND: I work on certain documents on more than one Macintosh. This involves keeping the current version of those documents on floppies. But for data security, I also want to keep copies of the files on the computers' hard disks. (And sometimes a file that I end up working on in various places gets its start on a hard disk.) Updating the various disks becomes a headache. Which brings me to the QUESTION: Is there a copying utility for the Mac that can be told to overwrite only OLDER versions of a file? The Finder's copy routine warns you about overwriting files, but gives no clue about whether the one about to be overwritten is older, newer, or the same as the one about to overwrite it. I would like a copying or updating program that could be told to overwrite all older files, or one that, when it warns you about potential overwriting, displays the timestamps and sizes of the two relevant files, so that you have some basis on which to answer the question. Does such a thing exist? James Beard beard@informatics.wustl.edu