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[Anatoly Larkin]

I have been looking for this everywhere for some time, and then thought, perhaps, someone might have actually written a script that can do this "rename sync" thing already.

So, on my local drive I have a folder C:\PRODUCTS\ that contains many different subfolders, each with mutliple subfolders, eventually pointing to files: Images, Audio, Video, etc. A kind of hierarchical organization, if you will.
Of course, I archive all of this to my external archive drive, so as to back everything up, as well as freeing up local drive space, by deleting the local copies of the files that I am not currently using.

I do use a "synchronization program" that would compare data on my local drive and the external drive and then copy any new files from my local hard drive (that are not already on the external one). So far so good.

But what often happens is that I decide to rename a folder or a file on my local drive to give it a better name. Of course, then what happens is that I need to make a note of this rename and before running the synchronization utility rename all the folders on my external drive.

This is, needless to say, tedious - it's like doing everything twice (which is exactly what this is).

What I need is an automatic generation of a "renaming" batch file as I go through and manually (or not manually) rename files or folders in my local tree. I could then simply run this batch file next time I connect my external drive and would be sure that my folder/file names are still in sync (and after that I could synchronize the actual file changes).

As an example, if I decide to rename my C:\PRODUCTS\AudioData\ to C:\PRODUCTS\AudioData_Music\, I would do that by working in an explorer-type window, navigate to that folder, press F2, enter the new name, and in the same time the batch file, c:\rename.bat, would get an append in the form of

[engunneer]

better sync tools will handle those changes for you. I might recommend Microsoft's SyncToy, which does work quite nicely. There are other auto backup solutions, but I have not researched them.

Of course, you can also do what you want with AHK, but that is up to you.
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[Anatoly Larkin]

Tried SyncToy - can't trust it.
There are cases where it will not recognize that the renamed folder is the same folder.
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