Enhance your copy/pasting: Piky Basket 2.0

Piky Basket 2.0
http://www.conceptworld.com/Piky/piky_features.asp

There are a lot of fun little copy/paste tools, ranging from the awesome SendTo PowerToys to a huge variety (in function, complexity and usefulness) of other tools.

Piky Basket is a fun program that assists you with copying & pasting by giving you an option to drop your files into a "basket", a separate entity than your clipboard - thus giving you some freedom from the fear of overwriting your clipboard with something else as you work throughout the day...

It also has a 'Command Prompt here' feature, which gives you the ability to escape to a command window using that path as the working folder...a nice addition, but not necessary.

The items are stacked into a "basket" (think 'queue'). You have the ability then later on to copy or move or copy all of these files later on as a set, rather than one at a time. Also, you can paste a list of filenames - however, you cannot paste this list from the basket, per se - you can only copy a pathname listing as you have the files selected. This would be a nice feature to add (hint, hint)...

Once installed, it will put itself into your right-click context menu. To add items to the basket, right click on a file or folder> 'Piky Basket'> 'Drop into the basket'. Your action is confirmed by a few cheesy wav files. Thankfully, you can go into preferences to turn these off, but it would be nice to have the ability to modify these to something a little less annoying.

Side note:

I'd like to see the ability to add text strings to my Basket - this would be good for compiling notes as I'm working on a document.

Problems? Only one...

The only problem I noticed is if you copied a series of files into a basket, then deleted one of those files from your system, Piky Basket isn't smart enough to know not to copy/move the file when asked. As a result, it will give you an error, which will most likely prevent you from copying/moving the rest of the files in the basket that were added after it. The fix? Empty the basket and try it again. It would be nice if Piky Basket just trudged on through and notified you after the fact that the file wasn't in the source location any longer.

Admittedly, the program is no frills, but you can't fault an app for simplicity...! Non-existent file copy issue aside, Piky Basket is a fun and useful little add-on to Windows that can make your file copying/pasting just that much easier.