The only things I can find on duplicating files is how to remove them. What I can't figure out is how to make them!

For example, I want to make an identical duplicate of my Contacts folder and all its contents to put onto another computer. I also want it to stay where it is.

If I use drop box, it removes it from the original computer, which is not what I want.

With a text file I was able to just select all, copy, then open a new file and paste it all in, thus creating a duplicate. On a mac, you always get a choice to duplicate, anything, whatever you have selected. There *must* be something equivalent on a PC, mustn't there?

With regards to simply duplicating any single file, is there an easier way that the way I described above?

Thank you!

LG

You might want to start by telling us what email system you are using and how you are accessing your mail

In order to help you effectively we need to know exactly what email system you are using.  You can see the differences here

I'm sorry, W&D -- but what does this have to do with email?

Thank you.

LG

Your contacts exist on an email system.  By themselves you cannot use them.  We need to know which email system.  Is it in a browser, and email client, MS Office, win 8 mail app, etc

The ball is in your court

Just select what you want to duplicate and do ctrl-c followed by ctrl-v and you'll end up with file.extension and file - copy.extension. Simple

Dave

• Marked as answer by lotusgreen 11 hours 14 minutes ago

They never mention emails.

Dave! Holy Cow! How easy! How effective! Thank you!

(P.S. This isn't an email list of contacts.)

Dave -- I started on a PC about a year ago after over 20 years on a Mac. I essentially taught myself the new workings of the new-to-me system, and when I couldn't do something the Mac way I'd just figure some kind of work-around or learn how it should be done. This is the very first thing in this whole year which I did not figure out, neither the right way nor a workaround. It's so very simple, and, once you know, obvious, and in fact probably the same thing happens when one presses the duplicate key on the Mac, but I never knew.

I wonder how many other things I've missed!

Lily