Calling COmputer Gurus, need tech help

I've already googled and have not gotten one website yet that has an answer for me and I'm beginning to doubt there's a way to do it.


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How can I save 1 file under multiple file names at once?[/u2258924948][/b2258924948]

I've tried everything, please help cry

You can't. Not all at once. Why would you want to do such a thing, anyway?

After you've saved it once, you can just copy it a bunch of times and rename it. Go to Explorer, select the saved file, and hit Ctrl-C. Then hit Ctrl-V repeatedly, making "Copy (x) of XXXX.XXX" as many times as you need. Then rename the copies. I think that's about as automated as you're going to get it.

[quotece0a07cda8="dmorris68"]You can't. Not all at once. Why would you want to do such a thing, anyway?

After you've saved it once, you can just copy it a bunch of times and rename it. Go to Explorer, select the saved file, and hit Ctrl-C. Then hit Ctrl-V repeatedly, making "Copy (x) of XXXX.XXX" as many times as you need. Then rename the copies. I think that's about as automated as you're going to get it.[/quotece0a07cda8]

thanks + karma you really are the tech guru around here. yeah that's what I thought since pages and pages and different searches through google wasn't giving me any answers.

That just duplicates the file to split the file you can use a number of utilities like winrar.

[quote546fd2c6d7="Allen626"]That just duplicates the file to split the file you can use a number of utilities like winrar.[/quote546fd2c6d7]

I don't need to split the file

Say I have File A

I want to save File A as File B, File C, and File D. but I want to do this all at the same time.

How many do you want to do? You could probaly make a simple bat script or program to do it to multiple files a lot but the copy paste method is probaly the best for what I assume you are trying to do.

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That's just another batch rename utility, which I'm not sure is what he's looking for. Unless he has a sequence he wants to use to name all the copies, that wouldn't gain him anything.

I'm still curious as to why you want to save the same file to many different names? I'm just wondering if there isn't a better way to accomplish what you're trying to do...

I don't get what he wants to do. WinRAR will split a large file into a lot of small ones so it can be sent in pieces...

[quote3bdb392617="Wolfeman"]I don't get what he wants to do. WinRAR will split a large file into a lot of small ones so it can be sent in pieces...[/quote3bdb392617]
It seems he wanted an automatic way to save a single file multiple times with different filenames. In other words, copy it multiple times. No software (that I know of) that "saves" files will let you save it X times with different names (unless you manually do "Save As..." multiple times). So his choice is pretty much limited to saving it once, then copying the file multiple times.

[quoteb43b1cea86="dmorris68"][quoteb43b1cea86="Wolfeman"]I don't get what he wants to do. WinRAR will split a large file into a lot of small ones so it can be sent in pieces...[/quoteb43b1cea86]
It seems he wanted an automatic way to save a single file multiple times with different filenames. In other words, copy it multiple times. No software (that I know of) that "saves" files will let you save it X times with different names (unless you manually do "Save As..." multiple times). So his choice is pretty much limited to saving it once, then copying the file multiple times.[/quoteb43b1cea86]

yeah, there's no way, and I did it the difficult way mentioned above, "save as" multiple times, so much that I think the click save motion has become part of my muscle memory. lol lol

Let's see if I could clear it up what I needed, Okay Say I have this file 1
file 1 has the words "blah blah" written in it

I want to save file1 with the names File A, File B, and File C. but imagine doing that for the entire alphabet.

Of course, it'd be a cinch if I could do that all at once but Word doesn't allow that. So I have to save file 1 first as File A, then go up and "save as" File B and so on.

Honestly, if you really have a need to make that many copies and want to learn some programming (assuming you don't already know), it would be pretty trivial to whip up a little Windows VBScript or even a batch/cmd file to take a filename as input, then generate a bunch of copies with sequential names or something. Unless each name needs to be very unique, this would be the way to go. Of course if this is a one-time thing and not something you'd be doing often, then there's not much point.

That sounds so fun to just like make little scripts to do this stuff for you. I'm taking "Basic Programming" in school next year, so I'll be able to learn all this stuff......

[quote316ac49a3e="OldManWrigley"]That sounds so fun to just like make little scripts to do this stuff for you. I'm taking "Basic Programming" in school next year, so I'll be able to learn all this stuff......[/quote316ac49a3e]

it is pretty cool, but you might not learn them in a class. ive taken programming for 3 years and the only place i ever learned to make scripts was at work heh. pretty useful tho

kyks, glad to see you still lurk around...

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