CopyDrop

(for Macintosh OS X 10.4.x and 10.5.x)

Welcome to the CopyDrop home page. CopyDrop was written by Emmett Gray, the editor of Film Scouts.

CopyDrop is distributed as shareware. The unpaid version is fully functional, but has a built-in startup delay. This delay can be avoided by buying a registration code (from Kagi) for $10.00 US.

The concept of CopyDrop is to make it possible to use the Finder to drag and drop folders, volumes, and files in order to make "smart" copies of them, meaning that identical items already in the destination are not re-copied, saving time. There are two modes, "replace" and "merge". In "replace" mode, any items existing only in the destination will be removed such that the result will be a destination identical to the source. In "merge" mode, unique items in the destination are untouched such that the destination contains all files that were previously there (and not in the source) plus every file in the source.

Copydrop was written to fill the void left by the demise of the Classic application "CopyAgent", for which there is no OS X version.

Version 1.3.3, released June 18 2008, is a Leopard-compatible universal binary which runs on all Macs. This version adds the ability to exclude files by file type (1.e. extension) from a copy operation.