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│ │ Quick Directory │ Hints and Tips │ │
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│ Quick Directory Jim Olsen - SUPERWARE │
│ Shareware Version 1.32 PO Box 1291 │
│ Copyright, 1993. Naugatuck, CT 06770 │
│ All Rights Reserved. (203) 723 - 0014 │
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└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Copyright 1993, Jim Olsen SUPERWARE. All Rights Reserved.
QuickDir Hints and Tips ----------------------------------- Page 1
- In this tutorial, I will be informally going through some
of the main ways I use QuickDir.
- Since I'll be teaching you from my experience, You'll
be an advanced QuickDir user in no time at all.
- First, I'll list some of the major ways I use QuickDir.
Then, I'll tell you the details.
The Major Ways I Use QuickDir - Jim Olsen, Author.
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1. Quickly Change Dos Directories.
2. Copy Files To Diskette.
3. See what's on a diskette.
4. Using QuickDir for Backup.
5. Editing and Viewing Files.
6. Searching for a Filename.
7. Cleaning Up the Hard Drive.
Copyright 1993, Jim Olsen SUPERWARE. All Rights Reserved.
QuickDir Hints and Tips ----------------------------------- Page 2
#1 - Quickly Changing Dos Directories
-------------------------------------
DOS directories can get quite large. One of my
directories is called:
C:\WIN\WORDPROC\RESUME\RESMAIL\QUICKDIR.
You can use QuickDir to easily change to that directory.
Here's how:
- Type 'QD QUICKDIR'
- QuickDir initializes and highlights the first directory
starting with QUICKDIR.
- If the directory is not correct, press the 'N'ext Key.
- Keep using 'N' until the proper directory is found.
- Use the 'Q'uit key to quit and change to directory.
- Note: Using ESCAPE to quit will bypass dir change.
#2 - Copy Files To Diskette.
----------------------------
If you use diskette as your primary backup or file
transfer medium, QuickDir has many advantages over
other copy software.
You can use 'Verify' to automaticly verify
that the diskette write was indeed good. Rather than
just scanning the newly written file, QuickDir actually
reads the file, performing a copy without any output file.
If your file selection list contains more files than
can fit on a single diskette, QuickDir will ask if you
want to use a new diskette.
Here's how I use QuickDir to copy files to diskette:
- Decide what you want to copy.
- If it's an entire directory and subdirectories,
use 'C' from the directory tree display.
- If it's selected files from a single directory,
tag the files and use 'C' from the file display.
- If it's a single file, use 'C' from the file
display.
- Hint: If you are making multiple floppy disks with
the same contents, it is easier to set up some
TEMPORARY directories on your hard disk and then
use option 'C' from the directory tree to create
a disk.
- When creating a floppy always use 'VERIFY=Y' to
make sure that the disk can be read.
Copyright 1993, Jim Olsen SUPERWARE. All Rights Reserved.
QuickDir Hints and Tips ----------------------------------- Page 3
#3 - Seeing What's on a Diskette.
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Whenever I get a diskette from any source, I put it in
the floppy drive and use 'QD A:' or 'QD B:'.
That enables me to see what's on the diskette, as well
as copy or unzip the files to the hard drive.
#4 - Using QuickDir for Backup.
-------------------------------
It's a good thing to do daily backup of parts of your
hard drive. Particularly, any files that are updated
daily should have their own directory structure, such
as spreadsheet, database and word processor. The
directory should NOT be part of the software directory
structure. If it data is separated from software,
backup is much easier.
Although the system presented here is not as automated
as some of the backup software I've seen, in my opinion
it is easier to use, since it backs up an entire
directory to a single floppy, overlaying the previous
backup. Restores are very easy since all that needs to
be done is unarchive the diskette. Most backup software
works at the file level. To restore a single directory
requires inserting many different disks, since the files
were created at different times.
Here's how to make backup using QuickDir.
1. - Design the directory tree structure so that the most
common backup directories have a single 'parent'.
2. - I recommend ARJ for backup, because it never allows
a file to grow bigger than a diskette.
3. - Go into the parent directory and TAG all files.
4. - Use 'O' for cOmpress.
5. - Specify the hard drive for output directory.
Daily backups are saved on hard drive and floppy.
6. - Call the filename '[DIRNAME].ARJ' (the directory name).
7. - In ARJ options, turn on 'Add all Subdir' and 'Volume'
size of diskette.
8. - Let Arj make the archive.
9. - Copy the archive to floppy, using verify to make
sure the backup is readable.
10.- You may want to leave daily backups on the hard
drive for quicker restore.
11.- Software backups are done infrequently, and are
deleted from the hard drive when I see the verify
successfully ended.
Copyright 1993, Jim Olsen SUPERWARE. All Rights Reserved.
QuickDir Hints and Tips ----------------------------------- Page 4
#4 - Using QuickDir for Backup. Continued.
-------------------------------
Basing the backup on directories, and doing it manually
without a backup utility has worked well for me.
When a restore is required, I have all the files on 1
or more diskettes, wrapped together. Changed information
is compressed on the hard drive and also on a floppy.
Please tell me if you do backups this way. Perhaps I can
automate the procedure if enough people reque