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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: motorollin on November 30, 2006, 06:25:42 PM

Title: Copy all icons and keep drawer structure
Post by: motorollin on November 30, 2006, 06:25:42 PM

When I get my A4000 I will be reinstalling OS3.9. On my A1200 I have spent a lot of time customising my Workbench icons with Powericons. I would like to find a way to copy all of the .info files and keep the folder structure, which I can then copy on to my new 3.9 installation on the A4000 and it will replace all of the systems icons in all of the drawers (and sub-drawers) on the Workbench installation. Is there any way to do this?

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moto

Title: Re: Copy all icons and keep drawer structure
Post by: adolescent on November 30, 2006, 06:27:50 PM

Can't you just do COPY #?.info ALL CLONE

Title: Re: Copy all icons and keep drawer structure
Post by: motorollin on November 30, 2006, 06:30:32 PM

Dunno, can I? :-)

I'm guessing the ALL command will make it recurse in to subdirectories. Will it recreated the drawers as required? E.g. if I do 'COPY SYS:#?.info RAM:Sys/ ALL CLONE', will I get a DEVS drawer in RAM:Sys with the correct icon, and within that all of the drawers in DEVS: with the correct icons and so on.

Sorry but my AmigaDOS isn't as good as it used to be :-)

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moto

Title: Re: Copy all icons and keep drawer structure
Post by: stopthegop on November 30, 2006, 06:59:06 PM

Moto:

There is a program called "multiren" (multi-rename) that should do this.  Its got options to filter like "directories only", "files only", "files and directories", or just ".info files only".  You can select multiple paths and, of course, select and deselect subdirectories.  Make the selections of files you want converted.  Save this list as "motosicons2bchanged".  Apply the rename command to all your selected icon files (I think you use #? to mask, i.e. #?.info->#?.old).  Not sure, something like that..  Then copy the new .info files.  Theres a few multi-renaming tools on aminet..  I think thats what you need for this..  

Title: Re: Copy all icons and keep drawer structure
Post by: adolescent on November 30, 2006, 07:01:11 PM

Well, it didn't work (sorry).  But, LHA (or LZX probably) will do what you want, and package everything up nice for you.

lha -r a ram:sysicons.lha sys:#?.info

Title: Re: Copy all icons and keep drawer structure
Post by: motorollin on November 30, 2006, 07:14:32 PM

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adolescent wrote:
lha -r a ram:sysicons.lha sys:#?.info

Yep, that worked. Thanks :-)

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moto

Title: Re: Copy all icons and keep drawer structure
Post by: jmbattle on December 01, 2006, 02:40:56 AM

Yes, back in the day I used to do something similar to exchange icon sets on AIAB.

Cheers,
James