The Copy Files job entry allows you to copy one or more files or folders. Let's see this step in action. Assume that you have a folder with a set of files, and you want to copy them to three folders depending on their extensions: you have one folder for text files, another for Excel files, and the last one for the rest of the files.
You will need a directory named sampleFiles
containing a set of files with different extensions, including .txt
and .xls
. You will also need three destination directories, named txtFiles
, xlsFiles
, and OtherFiles
.
Perform the following steps:
Create a new job and drop a Start job entry into the canvas.
Add a Copy Files job entry. In this entry, you will add the directions for copying the files into the three available destination folders. Double-click on the entry to open it.
In the File/Folder source textbox, type or browse for the
sampleFiles
folder. In the File/Folder destination textbox, type or browse...