zimerman@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Jacob Ben-david Zimmerman) (08/01/90)
Hello all. My question is as follows. If I have a number of floppies, each of which contains a number of folders which contains subfolders and files and so on, *if there are duplicate folder paths on the floppies,* can I merge them all into one structure on a hard drive? For example, let's say I have two disks. On each disk is the folder "test." Inside test on disk one is another folder, perhaps named "result", and a file, named file1. On disk two, there is, inside the folder "test" a folder named "results1" and another file named file2. Is there a way (without manually shoveling around all these objects) to copy them to a HD such that I have *one* folder named "test" containing both result and results1 as well as file1 and file2? If I simply dragcopy everything, test will be replaced by the new test every time I drag over a new version of it. The reason for asking this is that I have a client who recovered his HD using SUM II for the Mac. It put all of his files/folders in the correct paths, but on thirty+ floppies. He was a bit obsessive about his folders, having hundreds of them and thousands of files, and would like to know if he can recover his file hierarchy without manually dragging around all those files. Also, he has trouble telling apart some of them other than by their folder placement (for example, he might have ten different Quicken files named January, or some such, that he differentiates among by their (ex) folder position.) So, does anyone know of a way to do this, or should I tell him he's stuck with manipulating all these files manually, which would take him several days at least? Thanks for any help you can give me. -JBZimmerman! ___________ |-Here comes your father. || | -Henry V || ||acob Zimmerman!+> <zimerman@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> INTERNET === | <zimerman@PUCC> BITnet