CopyFile - new files only

[pauljohn]

1st - I love this program!

2nd - the question
I have 2 directories, 1 local & 1 on a server.
Every day the local dir has 4 or so new files added to it.
Those need to be copied to the server.
I have a script running the program to pull the new info already.
The program pulling the new data looks at the old data 1st to see what it needs to download.
So I can't just delete everything first or I get 40 files. 36 of them I already have.
I've tried just using the server directory and not storing local, but it runs to slow.
I just want the new files copied to the server and I can schedule that for 3am when no one is at the office.
Right now I just do CopyFile and set it to Overwrite.
That will just get slower and slower as the year progresses.

Let>CF_OVERWRITE=1
CopyFile>C:\Users\me\Desktop\store\4\*.*,q:\store\004\
CopyFile>C:\Users\me\Desktop\store\38\*.*,q:\store\038\
CopyFile>C:\Users\me\Desktop\store\73\*.*,q:\store\073\
CopyFile>C:\Users\me\Desktop\store\79\*.*,q:\store\079\
... there are 40 folders in total

Not sure if this will be useful or not...
This is an example of the file names in the folders:
2010-01-20.407.1.xml.gz, 2010-01-20.407.2.xml.gz
2 files for each date plus current.1.xml.gz and current.2.xml.gz

I've search the forums for anything similar and haven't found it yet.
Thank you,
PJ

[JRL]

You could use DOS xcopy. Open a command prompt and type in "xcopy /?" to see xcopy help. Something like this might work

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//Get today's date information
GetDate>date
//DOS wants the separater to be a hyphen
StringReplace>date,/,-,date

Let>rp_wait=1
Let>rp_windowmode=0
Run>cmd /c xcopy c:\test\*.* c:\tester\ /c /y /d:%date%

If you want yesterday's date add one line.

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//Get today's date information
GetDate>date
//use the Sub> function to go back one day
Sub>date,1
//DOS wants the separater to be a hyphen
StringReplace>date,/,-,date

Let>rp_wait=1
Let>rp_windowmode=0
Run>cmd /c xcopy c:\test\*.* c:\tester\ /c /y /d:%date%

[Marcus Tettmar]

Hi,

Some possible options:

1. You could use a File Event Trigger (Macro Properties - Trigger)

2. Instead of copying with wildcards use a GetFileList to get a list of files in the folder. Loop through each one and do an IfFileExists on the destination. If it exists, don't copy, only copy if it does not exist.

[pauljohn]

I never even thought about a batch file. LOL

I think I'll try the GetFileList and see what I can do.
I may be back again

Thank you
PJ