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To show the power of multi-folder selections, a hypothetic backup example is constructed here. The example assumes a Probe main window layout containing two Folder Browsers.

Suppose we want to make a backup copy of all HTML and MS Word documents in the folder C:\My Project and its subfolders. We want to copy them to the folder H:\My Backup.

1. Point one Folder Browser to the target directory H:\My Backup.
2. In the companion Folder Browser, press Num-Plus to open the wildcard selection dialog (Numeric keypad, addition key).
3. Specify the filename wildcard *.htm,*.doc, and set the option Recursively select in subfolders, and then press OK. Probe now iterates recursively in all subfolders of H:\My Backup and selects files matching the wildcard.
4. To copy the files to the target directory, press keyboard accelerator F5. This brings up the File Operation Dialog.
5. In this dialog, make sure the setting Recursive selections is set in the Subfolders section of the dialog.
6. Press OK to start the operation. The files are now backed up to the H:\My Backup directory.

Using the pattern above, only the files in a certain folder structure matching the filename wildcard pattern are copied.