Use a CSV map
Run a map you made or edited
Run a Move/Copy map: the same file browse and pick writes when you plan or run. Plan in the GUI, change where things land in Excel, then load it here - or write one from the template. Best when the destination layout comes from a spreadsheet.
What it does
- Exactly which items go where, in a file you can review, share and keep.
- The same run again next month, because the file is the definition.
How it runs
- Get a map. Plan the run with browse and pick, or download the template. Both are the same format.
- Edit it. The first row (Initial) names the source and destination sites. Each row under it is a folder to make or an item to copy or move, with where it lands.
- Load it. The rows are checked and listed before anything runs. A file that isn't a run map is refused, not guessed at.
- It runs. Exactly the rows you were shown, from a fresh copy saved with your other run maps, on the same loader and engine as every Move/Copy - so it can be resumed, checked or undone.
How it works
The CSV method loads a run map, not a format of its own: the same columns browse and pick writes. Its first row names the source and destination sites, and each row under it names an operation, its source and where it lands. The file is checked before anything runs, and a file that is not a run map is refused. What runs is a fresh copy of exactly the rows you were shown, saved beside your other run maps; the file you loaded is not changed.
It runs on the same engine as a resume, so a row the map already records as complete is not done again, and progress, undo and Check results work exactly as for any other run. A row whose source or destination cannot be resolved fails on its own and the rest of the map carries on.
What you need
- Write access to the destination, and read access to the source. For a move, write access to the source too.
What it will not do
- One source site and one destination site per map - the two the Initial row names. Rows may use any library in them.
- A typo in a path is a failed row rather than a wrong write: each row reports its own failure and the rest carry on.