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; About Profiles
Second Copy maintains information about "what to copy", "where to copy" and "when to copy" in a "Profile".
Second Copy compares files in the source and destination folders and compares their timestamps to see which files have changed. Then it copies only the new or changed files.
Click the Show Log button or select Log from the View menu to see Second Copy log.
If there was an error during the last copy process you will see a red E on the profile icon. It will get reset next time the profile completes successfully.
To reset an error icon, right click on a profile and select Reset error flag.
You can drag and drop files and folders from Explorer to create a new profile.
Click right mouse button on a profile to see menu options.
You can save space by compressing files. Select Custom setup and go to the "How" page to set the options.
To temporarily disable a periodic profile, right click on it and set it to manual. To resume schedule, right click on the profile again and uncheck the manual flag.
To exit Second Copy, right click on the icon in system tray and select Exit.
Hold the mouse over the progress bar to see which file is being copied.
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You can save older versions of files in an Archive folder if you are not using compression. Go to the "How" page of the profile wizard to define a location.
To view details of all profiles in the main window click the Details button on the toolbar.
You can separate your backups by days, weeks, etc. by using the Directory Macro Expansion feature of Second Copy.
For incremental backups turn on archive bit option on the Advanced Properties page.
; New tips added by Sudha Pethe on October 12, 1999
You can organize profiles by category in profile groups.
To create a new profile group, right click on the (All Profiles) tab and select New Profile Group.
Profile groups are listed as tabs after (All Profiles) tab.
You can set the order of profile groups by right clicking on any of the profile group tab and selecting Reorder Tabs.
You can set the position of profile groups tabs by right clicking on any of the profile group tab and selecting Tab Position.
To add a new profile to a particular group, select the desired group first and then select File | New Profile.
To set the size of the log file, select Edit | Options, and on the General tab type the desired size of the log file in kilobytes.
If you do not want the deleted files to be moved to the Recycle Bin, uncheck the corresponding box from Edit | Options menu under the Copy tab.
You can create a setup disk for Second Copy by selecting the option under Tools menu.
Hold the mouse pointer over the tool bar buttons to display their descriptions.
The status bar displays the number of existing profiles under selected group, the next scheduled profile and the time of its execution.
Before clearing the log file, you can save it to a separate file for future reference by clicking on the Save As button.
To copy files across multiple floppy disks, select the 'Span files across multiple removable disks' option under the Advanced Properties of the "How?" section.
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