Put Away Files and Folders

Archive & Restore lets you put files and folders away into other folders on your hard drive, a file server on a local area network or on disks. The access will then be preserved by administrable archives with search capabilities and links so you can restore them easily as needed.

The program adds an Archive In command to the context menu of a file or folder in Explorer. In a submenu, you can choose the archive where you want to put away the selected items:

Context menu for archiving a file or folder

This will happen in both Explorer and in dialog boxes used for opening or saving a file. If you see files or folders there, you can move them into an archive with a few simple clicks of the mouse.

Before archiving starts, you will get a dialog box:

Dialog box for putting away files and folders

If you enter any notes here, they will be saved in the archive. Because searching these notes is possible, you can input key words here to help find files and folders later.

Links offer another method to access archived objects. For example, if you create a link in a folder from where you have put away a file, access to this file will remain in that original place. Such a link is only a few bytes in size. To avoid clutter, links are collected in link files.

If you link to a folder, you will be able to open it. Archived objects therein will be listed and can be restored or opened with their associated application.

Archive & Restore will extend the shell of the Windows operating system that you can use with Explorer. There are particular levels for archives and disks and files and folders will be grouped by changeable archiving periods.

With Archive & Restore, you can save files on hard drives as well as disks. The program will manage disks; if you want to open or restore a particular file, you will be prompted to insert the appropriate disk. Archive & Restore will then maintain the read-only attribute of the original file, e.g. if you restore files from a CD-ROM not all of them will be write protected because of this.

Many archiving parameters are properties of the archives themselves and need not be entered again and again. For example, once you define for an archive, that files should always be stored uncompressed and in an unchanged format.

If you try to archive a file that is already open with another program, Archive & Restore lets you close that file and try again or just skip it. If you cancel, however, this will lead to a definite state: all files will be archived or none at all -- the program will not archive only one part while leaving the rest in its original place.

The program will also offer some comfort during restoring in that a file will already exist at the destination.

Archive & Restore will not create a single file, e.g. in ZIP format. For each archiving process, one folder will be created and all files stored separately therein -- optionally uncompressed, so you will be able to access them directly in the archive or through a local search engine.



	Searching in archives



	Links collected in a file



	Shell extension with Explorer

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