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Does Robocopy Keep a Log File by Default?
I copied a huge number of files using Robocopy, and recived a note at the end that two files failed. I didn't set a switch to save a log file.
Is there a log file saved in a default location ...
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What is the benefit of copy over xcopy on the command line?
I know that xcopy has more options however is there some benefit to using copy rather than xcopy?
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How can I copy files from A to B, only including files that exist in B?
Maybe could be hard to explain, but I'll!
I'm on Windows 7 Professional, and this is my scenario :
Folder "Asd" (C:\) Folder "Asd" (D:\)
File 1 File 1
File 2 ...
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How can I copy a file on a network share using a different login with powershell or batch file?
I have a file in a shared location that I want to copy over to my local harddrive. However I will not be running as a user that has access to the share. So I want to be able to authenticate under a ...
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Verifying if two mirrored copies of disc are same or not?
I have two sets of discs which are mirrored copies of each other. Does an algorithm exist which could verify if the copy made is same as the original?
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Is GNOME2 “File operations” dialog customizable?
When I drag and drop some directory in my GNOME2 desktop environment ( and specifically on Debian 6.0.3 ), a "File operations" window appear and informs me about the progress, average transfer rate, ...
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Clone External Hard Drive Without Leaving a Record on the Drive Itself
I have an external hard drive which I need to make an exact copy of, but I need to do so without leaving any trace of the operation on the original drive.
I'm primarily a Mac user, but I suspect the ...
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Productivity tool to copy non copyable text from screen in a single step
Is there any tool with functionality of a screen capture and OCR in a single step, which sends the text selected to the clipboard.
If you are familiar with wordweb , what I mean is more like its ...
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shell scripting: iterating through directories and moving/renaming files
(FYI, I have very little shell scripting knowledge)
I have a ton of files and directories that look something like
-root
-dir1/a.txt
-dir2/a.txt
-dir3/b.txt
-dir4/b.txt
-dir5/c.txt
I would ...
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How to retrieve files to local machine when logged in to SSH?
I know that you can grab files with scp like this:
scp user@remote_machine:/path/to/source /path/to/destination
However, I'd like to know if there is an easier way to do this, when I'm already ...
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Copying files across computers in different networks using scp Mac Lion
I forgot how to do this and I found this other StackOverflow post about it but now I'm getting this error:
ssh: connect to host xx.xx.xx.xx port 22: Permission denied lost
connection
I am ...
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getting “Invalid Parameter #10” when attempting to copy folder using robocopy
I'm trying to copy a folder on my internal hard drive to my external hard drive using robocopy with the following command:
robocopy "source folder" "destination folder" *.* /E /DCOPY:T /COPYALL ...
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Copy files from SD Card
I have a brand new 4GB SanDisc SD card.
With lot of personal files. (jpg, exe, zip, rar, doc...)
When I insert card in my notebook internal reader... first I get this message.
Then, if I want to ...
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Copy parts of W7 registry?
I'm reinstalling Windows 7 tomorrow and to save myself some downloading and installing I wanted to copy my games. This won't just work, as some info is probably saved in the registry. This is why I ...
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copy same file into multiple directories - permission denied error
Please help me in solving the below issue:
I want copy a file say info.txt into multiples directories and their sub-directories .
I used this command:
go to parent directory.
find . -type d -exec ...
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How to avoid XCopy run into the error: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process?
I am xcopying data from my local directory to a shared windows drive. Once in a while i get an issue where in the middle of copying i see the following error:
The process cannot access the file ...
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Can I stop a netcat tar pipe and continue later without overriding existing files?
I'm trying to copy a lot of files from my NAS to my server, about 2TB.
I found that using a netcat tar pipe to copy the directories go's pretty fast about 40mb/s.
It seems to work faster than rsync ...
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How to paste table from MS Excel to Wolfram Mathematica?
When I am pasting a region from MS Excel, which contains multiple numbers, to Mathematica, I am getting just a long plain sequence of digits, i.e. one integer number in Mathematica.
How to have a ...
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Cannot copy large file from external hard drive to hard drive
I have a large file on an external hard drive (about 10 GB. Exactly 10,543,768 KB). On my Windows XP machine, my C drive is showing me that I have 19.7 GB free.
I drag the file to my desktop and ...
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Make fastcopy default copy operation
Can I make Fastcopy default copy operation to replace window copy, like what Teracopy does ?
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Copying files using PuTTy (not PSCP or anything else, just PuTTy)
I read bazillion questions on similar topic but they always mean "PSCP" when saying "PuTTy". The thing is I am in an environment where I am not allowed to use anything else than either PuTTy or ...
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Freeware Backup utility - with shadow copy ability?
I search for a free software that can use Shadow Copy.
In XP I can use Cobian, but in Win2008/x64 that Shadow Copy cannot accessable.
With Windows Backup I have problem that I have only one HDD.
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Why does one network transfer completely outdo another, only slightly different transfer?
The systems:
Del Optiplex w/ 1GB eth card , win7
mini-itx system, jetway nf98, intel i3,1 GB onboard eth card, crux w/ 2.6.33.7 custom
The network:
cat 5e or 6 all around. systems are less than a ...
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Copy contents of a folder, but none of its subfolders?
I'm using the explorer bar (the bar to the left of the main folder/files section in an explorer window) to show folders.
I don't have access to open any of the folders, themselves (at least none on ...
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How can I export my extensions in Chrome 15?
In Google Chrome 15, how can I export my extensions to another computer?
This question doesn't apply to Chrome version 15.
I'm trying to copy an extension that no longer exists in the webstore.
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My copy & paste no longer works on my laptop [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
copy and paste in windows XP just stops working
I have already done full AV and malware scans and I am clear. Using mouse right-click and/or keyboard commands it gives ...
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How to perform a low level disk copy? (Migrate Windows system from one disk to the other)
Currently, I have a SSD on my computer, I install my OS Windows 7 on it. Unfortunately, it's capability is too small (32GB), it gets full easily, I need to clean up files periodically, it's quite ...
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How to access single files from partially broken disk?
My laptop fell down and now I cannot start it. BIOS Hard drive tests shows "Error Code: 0000 Read Verification Failed" on the 0% of the test.
I need to copy data from the disk and thus I took it off ...
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Backup DVD to External Harddrive on Mac
I used to use DVD Decrypter, and now very rarely use DVD Shrink. DVD Decrypter is my favourite of the two. However, DVD Decrypter is now woefully out of date, and I own a Macbook Pro now anyway.
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xcopy files and directory
I have a folder named "C:\Jobs\job#1" , "C:\Jobs\job#2" "C:\Jobs\job#3" etc and a lot of directories and sub-directories under it.
I want to get the all the directories under Jobs and xcopy them to ...
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My hard drive is slow and just gets slower during copy processes
Today I purchased a brand new backup hard drive (2tb Western Digital Elements, USB 2.0) and when I copy files to it from my laptop (Toshiba Satellite l300 with 7200rpm Western Digital Black 500GB HDD) ...
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GParted stuck applying operations after copying partition between two disks
I'm copying a partition I had on a virtual disk (VirtualBox) to a real disk. I ran GParted on the virtual machine and copied the main partition (12.98 GiB) over to the new disk, and during the copy I ...
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How to copy & paste from a cell in Libre Office Calc
I have an Excel format spreadsheet that was sent to me by a colleague. It's a list of test usernames for an app we're building.
When I try to copy one of the usernames or passwords from the cell in ...
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How do I copy a file/folder from another user's home directory in Linux?
I want to copy a file/folder from another user's home directory to my home directory in Linux.
I cannot access his directory, because it says permission denied. I'm 100% sure that a file can be ...
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Copy text from within the batch file to a new text file
I am trying to copy the line below to a new text file using a batch file. The line is given below:
objIEA.Navigate ...
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How to prevent long file name error copying from an external drive?
I have an external hard drive with many files (800 GB). I want to copy the entire contents of the external hard drive to my local drive. get many errors about long file name or long file path. ...
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Multi-core and copy speed
What i want to do is to copy 500K of files.
I want to copy within server from one destination to another.It includes emails mostly so many small files.
Its over 23 GB only but takes so long (over ...
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Software for quickly copying large amounts of data over LAN?
I'm looking for some software for copying large amounts of data from a Mac OS X machine to a Windows 7 machine over a Cat5e cable with IPv4 connectivity?
Another way I could ask this question is ...
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How can I copy binary data in Windows (preferably with Notepad++)?
I want to duplicate some binary data (not in code, but by hand). The normal Ctrl+C doesn't work in my editor (Notepad++), it copies data only up to the first NUL char. Is there any workaround?
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How to disable copy in shared folder
I am trying to make folder that everyone can view and can't copy,modify.
For all answers.I thinking about specially ms office files.
I tried following methods
Software
- copy protect
- anti ...
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cannot make multiple copies from ADF tray with a canon mx340
I have an canon mx340 muti-function printer. I put 6 pages to be copied in the adf tray hit copy then black or color and it says thst i cannot scan in the adf tray. I need some direction please -this ...
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Copying to and from USB flash drives is slow
I am using an HP DM4, i5 with 4 GB RAM, and a 500 GB HDD with Windows 7 Home Premium on it. I have installed Norton Internet Security 2011.
Since a few months ago, I'm experiencing problems while ...
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How to copy files and create hardlinks instead of copying when files are identical
Are there any tools for Windows that can
copy one dir to another
read copied content
generate MD5
if the current file is identical to a previously copied one, create a hardlink in destination dir ...
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Tool/Utility for copying one file inside another
I'm looking for Tool/Utility with which I could copy one file inside another, but with option to specify target location in second file. And it must overwrite overlapping content not insert.
for ...
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How to copy one file to a folder and all its subfolders in Windows 7?
How do I copy one file to a folder and all its subfolders in Windows 7?
For example:
file.txt
will be copied to
folder/file.txt
folder/sub1/file.txt
folder/sub2/file.txt
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Trying to copy only files with three-char name, but this is copying anything smaller
I'm using 'copy' in a console window in Windows XP Pro (So I'm using DOS commands basically)
I have files with three characters plus an extension and files with two chars plus an extension. I have ...
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Can I copy a CD in Windows 7 without 3rd party software?
Does Windows 7 have a function to copy CDs?
I know I can rip data CDs by just copying their contents to a folder, and audio CDs using the Media Player.
I know I can write data CDs directly through ...
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Copy data from PC secretly to USB /Portable Hard disk?
Can you name any free ware by using which you can copy specific data automatically when you plug in the USB or Portable Hard Drive secretly without alerting the Anti Virus or Malware ?
I know one ...
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Make a local copy of a vbulletin forum
could someone recommend a piece of software that let's me make a copy of a vbulletin forum on a website?
I am a member and would like to make an offline copy... the issue I have is that is requires ...
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How to copy a file from unix to windows machine, from commandline
How to copy a file from unix machine to windows machine, from commandline.
