Windows 10: How do I replace all files in a folder with a single file

Hey!

I've been needing to do something for a while but I'm really struggling to get it done automatically. This also might sound really confusing because it's quite hard to get it into actual words, it makes sense in my head but its impossible to communicate.

Basically, I have a folder full of files with different names and each file is different, none are the same. What I need to do is replace every single one of those files with one singular separate file in a different folder so all the files in the previously mentioned folder have been replaced with this one file and are the same, but also ensuring that all the replaced files in the original folder keep their original names so they can be read by the system properly.
I've been doing it manually but there are over 2500 files in that folder and its taken hours of copying the name of one file in that folder, deleting the file and pasting the new file and name over to replace it.

I just need a way to bulk replace all of these files with a single external file without having them losing their original unique names and instead having XXXX_(copy) in its place

I really hope that makes sense because I'm on a time limit now and I appreciate any help I can get which saves me from hours of doing it manually and dying of boredom *Tongue

:)

 

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http://www.theeldergeek.com/file_list_generator.htm

EDIT: The .bat file will do what I want if it is in the folder I want to do it in, but the option I want to add is having the right click option that it shows.

 

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