How to do the equivalent of dragging & dropping a single directory using Acronis
I would like to know how to copy a particular directory using Acronis True Image in which the copy has precisely the same file structure & file types as the original. In other words, how can I get Acronis to perform essentially the equivalent of dragging & dropping a particular directory - not the entire drive. In a normal drag and drop, the process often stops for reasons such as long file name, etc. How would I accomplish this with Acronis without it stopping if there were a file with too long a name?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Apart from the obvious question of 'why not just drag and drop' :) , if you make a files and folders backup you can explore it and drag it to a new location. This does of course mean you have to make a tib container file which is why I'm not sure what you are thinking about using True image for. If you could explain what and why you need to do this, some other ideas or suggestions might spring up.
The dragging & dropping process often stops for one of a variety of reasons. A good example is if the process encounters a file name that is too long. So I wish to use drag & drop only on small backups or file transfers. Otherwise, I might start a drag & drop that will last a couple of hours, only to find out that it stopped 15 minutes into the process.
In other words, I need something which will perform the process of dragging & dropping, but will NOT stop if it encounters a problem file. Can Acronis do this?
No, this isn't what True Image is designed to do, I'm still unclear why you are thinking of using an imaging or file backup program to drag and drop. I feel I'm missing something that might make for a more helpful reply.
Are you wanting to have a backup of some files and folders that you can add and remove files by drag and drop? If that is the case, there is the Sync function but this is a two way sync so might not be what you are looking for. With a complete disk or partition image you can mount th eimage as a virtual drive in writable mode and then add and remove files, but this will cause the archive location to grow as TI 2013 has to reimage the differences between the base and the state of the image after what you have just altered.
True Image will stop with an error message if there is a disk corruption problem or if making a files and folders backup if the file is locked by a program.
No, this isn't what True Image is designed to do, I'm still unclear why you are thinking of using an imaging or file backup program to drag and drop. I feel I'm missing something that might make for a more helpful reply.
Are you wanting to have a backup of some files and folders that you can add and remove files by drag and drop? If that is the case, there is the Sync function but this is a two way sync so might not be what you are looking for. With a complete disk or partition image you can mount th eimage as a virtual drive in writable mode and then add and remove files, but this will cause the archive location to grow as TI 2013 has to reimage the differences between the base and the state of the image after what you have just altered.
True Image will stop with an error message if there is a disk corruption problem or if making a files and folders backup if the file is locked by a program.
How exactly does the Sync function differ from a drag and drop?
If the Sync function encounters a file which has too long a name, will it still copy it?
The reason I need my backup in the proper file directory as opposed to some kind of backup file is because I'm backing up to an external drive which I may need to access quickly from another computer.
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I tried a Sync on two directories in which 99% of the files were identical. I duplicated a directory (about 1.0 GB of photo files) from an external drive (we'll call this directory A) onto my computer drive (we'll call this duplicated directory 'B'). Then I put some miscellaneous files in 'A' and some different miscellaneous files in 'B'. Then I renamed 'A'. I then did a sync between 'A' and 'B'. When I looked at the directories after performing the Sync, the contents of the directories is precisely the same as before the sync. This begs the question what is the purpose of a Sync?