[Typo3] Easy way to copy whole directories and paste them?

[A-san]

Alex Heizer wrote:
> A-san wrote:
> 
>> I want to create three pretty much identicaly subsites.  I have 
>> created one of the subsites.  How can I make a copy of the subsite 
>> with all its inner directories and pages and paste them easily?
>>
>> I'd rather do this instead of copy/pasting each page individually.
>>
> you should be able to copy and paste the pages recursively, so if you 
> copy/paste the first page of the subsite, it will keep the entire tree. 
> If you get an error when you try to copy/paste recursively, go into 
> "Setup" in the "User" section of the left menu, select your username, 
> then change the "Recursive Copy" value. Set it higher than the number of 
> levels of pages in the tree (8 is usually high enough) and save the 
> settings.
> 
> As for the directories in the Filelist, it won't let you copy/paste a 
> top-level directory into the same place because the directory name it's 
> trying to paste will be the same as an existing directory. So instead, 
> if the copy directory is /fileadmin/subsite/, make a new directory 
> first, named /fileadmin/subsite2/, then copy /fileadmin/subsite/'s 
> contents into the /fileadmin/subsite2/ directory. It helps if you 
> structure your directories in /fileadmin/subsite/ so that you only have 
> one or two subdirectories to copy, such as /fileadmin/subsite/home/ and 
> /fileadmin/subsite/templates/, with everything under it's respective 
> subdirectory.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Alex

Thank you alex, changing the settings worked perfectly. :)