@ Endomondo,

The programs you mentioned are used to "sync" two sets of files (1 main folder to 1 main folder (and sub-folders)), one-way or bi-directional; I have both of them.

This program is different from what most people are experienced with regarding syncing in that it is designed to copy a file/set of files to multiple locations. You build a "source" list of files (add file(s)), and then you build a list of destination folders (add folders) where all of the source list is to be copied to. You can save source lists in a file, and likewise target folders in a file, to make it easy to have multiple ones if needed.

This is more of a distribution program than what we normally consider syncing. I am aware of only a couple programs that were designed for this purpose, and this one implemented it better. Sure, it keeps that set of file synced with the many destination folders, but it does not concern itself with any other files in those folders.

Example: you have a file/files that gets modified often, and that same file/files (e.g., library of routines/common documents) needs to be distributed to different clients/projects/websites along with several other files that are different for each project. With the software packages you mentioned, you would have to set up multiple sync operations that would leave other files in the destination alone (if not in the source), and you would have to execute each sync operation individually, unless the software had "grouping" functionality where you could kick off one main job and it do all the individual jobs. It is possible to do that with a sync program that has the "grouping" function, but the setting up each destination is extremely tedious, even if you can start by using a copy of the first one to create the others. There is also an issue if you need to add or remove and entry from the source side or the target side.

The Copy Files to Multiple Folders software simplifies that operation.

It is a very simple concept, but it took me years to find the ones I am familiar with. I am glad to see this one available to us today at no cost.

Simplicity itself to install, run and register the program. If you happen to backup a range of new files manually to several directories this program should make the process far easy and less time consuming- perhaps a specialist field but this company has some interesting new ideas and approaches if the last two day's offers have been anything to go by!