Questions about copying in the context of file managemenent and backing up.
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linux copy command no destination
I want to just copy some files and paste them somewhere else in another command. The reason is my source and my destination are on two different servers and I need to switch to a new server before ...
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How can i copy the files and folders from Domain1 TO Domain2 on a same Linux server using terminal command [closed]
Sorry. This is first time i am copying data from one domain to another domain on a same server.
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Windows command to copy file forcefully when that file is used by another process
I am copy a file using copy command. But its throwing some error.
copy /y ..\BuildLog.htm .
Error is : The process cannot access the file because its used by another process
XCOPY /Y is also ...
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Copying files cross the network
Two computer is connected via network cable. Comp A and CompB. CompA has 2 GB RAM and CompB has 4 GB RAM. I am trying to copy 50GB data(1 file not many files) from CompB to CompA.
1) Make the ...
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Unable to copy embedding link generated by Mathematica / Ubuntu
Mathematica offers export to a format they call Computed Document Format (CDF) - it is basically a player for the notebooks you work in that environment.
One way to use them is to embed it on a web ...
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Copy in use files with security Permissions
Is there a free Windows utility that will let me copy folders and sub folder contents with their NTFS security permissions and let me copy in use files?
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Mac app: want to copy system files out of the protected location, and failed [closed]
In my Mac program, I want to copy the file located in /private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/users/xx.plist to another disc.
Presumably it will failed, and it is.
I use the api of ...
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Unix command for recursively copying files
I need a unix command for the following:
Directory Structure
/project
/images
/products
/cup.jpg
/laptop.jpg
/designs
/alpha.jpg
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Large files fail on transfer
When transferring files larger than ~17GB to/from a Windows Storage Server 2008, user gets error along the lines of "Could not complete transfer, do you want to try again?" Trying again always fails. ...
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Duplicate SCSI HHD to SATA SSD
I got the Cavalry Dual Bay SATA Hard Drive Duplicator Docking Station and it works great when I Clone/Duplicate SATA Hard Drives but I have a couple of SCSI HHDs that I want to Clone/Duplicate but the ...
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How can i automatically (silently) copy files off removable devices?
I'm looking for a way to automatically have my computer copy all files (or specific files based on extension) from removable devices plugged in (USB sticks/HDDs/phones etc) to a designated folder on ...
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Copy all files from one place to another whilst keeping group permissions
I'm trying to copy files from one place to another, I am using this:
cp -R /from/ /to/
However, whilst this is keeping the standard permissions, it is setting the group permissions to 0 0 ...
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What is the difference between manually copying emails/ folders from one PST file to another within Outlook, vs. using the “Export” option?
What is the difference between simply copying the contents from one Outlook PST file to another within Outlook, and using the "Export" tool in Outlook to do this?
Does one yield better results than ...
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Windows 8 hides / data copied from a Windows 7 computer. Or am I losing my mind?
I've had this happen two different times:
1) I backed up a client's hard drive to my large backup drive.
2) I do initial Windows 8 setup on new Laptop.
3) I pull the hard drive from the Windows 8 ...
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Transfer files from Ubuntu Server to Windows
I have a webpage in a Ubuntu Server, and I use ssh to connect to it. Now I'm looking for a solution to transfer files (indeed, to transfer the backups generated there automatically) to my Windows ...
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Copy files on Mac by using regular expression
I have close to hundreds of .fastq files in different subfolders under a shared drive along with many big files such as .bam files. I want to copy only the .fastq files to another location in a same ...
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Copy files with a certain extension into a folder
I want to find all the PDF files from the computer and put them into a folder.
So far, I have this:
mkdir d:\test
chcp 65001
d:
FOR /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('dir /s /b *.pdf') DO copy "%%a" d:\test\
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Automatically copy a folder when it gets updated
I am working on a project on my hard drive F, but my Dropbox-Folder is on my hard drive D. Now I want, that everytime I save something in the folder on hard drive F, that it get's automatically copied ...
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XCOPY not copying directories
I am trying to copy one directory to another directory. It seems I can copy a file but directories won't copy.
Running this at cmd:
XCOPY C:\Drivers C:\Users\lenovo\Desktop
Gives
0 File(s) ...
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Pattern matching for directory path
Can I use pattern matching with the copy or move command?
What I wanted to do is copy the file a.txt from D:\1\2\datehere\a.txt to another folder let us say D:\new.
The problem is that the source ...
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What is the exact capacity of 1000GB HDD?
1 GiB = 1024 * 1024 * 1024 bytes
1 GB = 1000 * 1000 * 1000 bytes
That is easy!
I don't want to talk about this!
I have laptop which should have (according to seller) 1000 GB. That is 1000 000 000 ...
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How to prevent file copy, restricted by file size?
I am the administrator of about 800 PC under Windows XP/7 with Active Directory.
To limit the exchange of Divx, I'm looking for a software which prevents the copy of all file of more than 400 MB.
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File copy slow from desktop
When I copy a large file like 5GB+ from one server share to another server share using my desktop, why is it so much slower than if I login to the server and copy it to the very same place? I mean I ...
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how to throttle file copy
I need to duplicate a 3TB disk by copying from one to another. They're housed in separate docks (no fan). It will take at least 8hrs to copy this much data through USB 2.0 and im concerned about disks ...
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App / Script to get extra confirmation before copying files to a folder in Windows
Anyone know any app to give me an extra confirmation (would be great with a custom message) before copying / overwriting files in a directory in Windows?
I need this so i do not copy new code to a ...
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Linux - How can I copy text by selecting it, and automatically send it to an application I choose?
I'm browsing the web searching for some information and copying some of them in kile for LaTeX editing.
The way I do this is selecting with the mouse the text i'm interested in, move to the workspace ...
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How to copy only new files AND only those that are modified after a certain date?
I would like to copy files from one drive to another, but I only want to copy source files that are newer than the destination file. BUT, I also want to only copy source files that have been changed ...
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How do I copy and synchronize my files from WinXP to Win8?
I'm trying to migrate my files from WinXP to Win8, but they use different paths. WinXP uses C:\Documents and Settings and Win8 uses C:\Users. Plus, WinXP uses Chloe\My Documents\My Music, while Win8 ...
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How do I ignore errors with Unison?
I'm trying to synchronize two directories using Unison, however if it encounters a file with an error, then it skips the entire directory! I don't believe it should skip the whole directory, and ...
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How do I copy the results of a calculation without copying the formula behind it? Open Office Calc
How do I copy and paste only the results of a calculation without copying the formula behind it? I'm learning to use Open Office Calc. I remember other spreadsheets that had a values function, or ...
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Copy one list of files to another
I have a list of files extracted from a table in a SQL database. The file can be either a delimited text file or an excel spreadsheet, whichever works best.
The file looks like this
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Windows - Check if copy is in progress via command line
I was wondering, is there any way to know via the command line in windows if a copy is in progress?
I'm writing a batch script to automatically shutdown all the computers on my network but we do ...
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Copying Tables from a Website
I have difficulty making an Excel-readable file from a table on a Website.
The problems very specific to my question are:
I have to use IE 7 to access the site.
Excel is installed in another ...
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Outlook crashing when copying calendar entries between calendars
I have a user who manages multiple calendars. There are times that she wants to copy a calendar entry from one calendar and put it into another calendar. When she does it, her Outlook crashes. This ...
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using dd to copy partition to another partition, while using physical drive
I'm not sure how to explain this in the subject better, so the "question" may not be right. But here goes. I have three hard drives. Drive A is a 320GB drive, Drive B is a 80 GB Drive, and Drive C is ...
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How to insert empty rows in Excel 2013 when I have copied rows in my clipboard?
This seems like something which should be painfully simple to do but I can't figure it out. So with an empty clipboard I can right click on a row header and say insert row, no problem, it inserts a ...
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Using rsync to recursively copy a directory while excluding a sub-directory but including a file in a sub-directory of the excluded sub-directory
I have a file tree that looks as such:
in
├── file1
├── dir1
└── dir2
├── dir3
│ ├──── file2
│ └──── junk1
├── junk2
└── junk3
I want to create a sibling of in which looks ...
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Explorer.exe Shutdown when copy or cut files and folders
I'v a problem with my Windows 7 Pro
that is when i copy or cut any file from any folder to another it crashes and close then relaunch explorer.exe
how could i solve this problem ?
any help?
Thanks
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Copy only files that don't exist regardless of file name?
My dropbox account apparently renames all auto uploaded images. I'm about to clear my phone and I would like to verify that all images are in the dropbox folder before deleting them.
If they had their ...
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Can I use HDD Raw Copy to clone a partially used HDD to a _smaller_ HDD?
I have a 500G HDD that came with my Mac. About 30 GB are currently used.
I want to replace the 500G HDD with a 256G solid state one. I'm running HDD Raw Copy to do this.
It didn't complain about ...
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batch - copy files to few computers over lan
I would like to copy \some\files to \computer1 \computer2 and \computer3 or better to c:\computerlist.txt
How to do some loops in batch files?
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How can I show values in the formula bar instead of cell references?
Here is what I have in my worksheet:
A1=2 B1=3 C1=A1+B1
I want the actual cell to show 5 but when I copy C1 I want the formula in the cell to show =2+3, not =A1+B1 or 5 is there a way to do ...
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How to use Robocopy to copy a folder structure into all (sub)folders located under one directory?
Is there anyway for me to quickly take an empty folder structure I have created on my desktop and copy it to 488 other folders all located on a network drive but in the same folder?
My primary ...
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copy single big file to multiple smaller harddrives
If I got a single 1200gb file and need to create a backup / copy it using 3 500GB harddrives, what's the best way to do this using linux?
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Copied C drive contents to external HDD, half of the content is not there, but content size says otherwise
I copied my C drive onto an external HDD. The folder which holds this shows that it has about 20GB of data.
However, when I open the folder, and check the sum of all contents, it only adds up to about ...
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Unix: copy files sequentially
As far as I remeber, long time ago I've been using such a thing: in total commander I pressed F2 in copy dialoge - added "copy task" into a "Copy queue". And so, all those files have been copied ...
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Move all sibling folders into one folder
I apologize that this seems like such a dumb question, but I can't afford to screw it up.
I have a bunch of folders like so:
/users/me/foo/oops1
/users/me/foo/oops2
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Copy all files in a folder which have the same name as files in a separate folder
Let me explain:
I am going through a huge icon set, and choosing the icons I like. I have chosen maybe 250 out of 3000 icons. The way the icons are split up are like this:
Icons
-> 16x16
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applications that monitor clipboard access
Whenever I press CTRL+X on a folder in Windows 7, it shows me that it is cutting it out (it's a little whiter then before) but then after 1 second, it's out of the clipboard, just gone.
That's why I ...
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File name too long to copy but doesn't say which one
I was copying a bunch of files but wasn't able to copy some because there name was too long. Is there an easy way to shorten the names or can I at least know the path to where the file name becomes ...
