Deletion is the removal of a particular piece of data from specific location(s).
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How to delete active logins in ie9
How to delete active Logins in ie9?? I want all logins to be cleared on closing the browser(ie9). Can anyone help me out??
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Delete un-wanted files from a folder based on file type
I need help on finding a tool to delete certain files with a specific file types from a directory on Windows.
Lets say I have a folder with 500 files, 150 files with extension .pdf, and 350 with ...
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Can I rename a file that is open on Windows XP?
I want to programatically rename a file and it could be open. It's a log file. When I was testing my code the rename part didn't work because the log file TestPro.log was open by the TAF (Test ...
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Why am I unable to delete this file/folder? [closed]
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How do I delete a file that is in use by another process?
When I tried to delete a file or folder on my Windows 7 computer I received the following messages:
Can ...
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How to delete Windows directory from old hard drive?
I recently installed a new faster hard driver on my computer, and I am using the old drive as secondary. I am running Windows 7 Pro, and it won't let me delete the Windows directory off of the old ...
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How can I permanently delete messages from gmail?
For privacy reasons, I want to permanently delete a lot of mail from gmail. I've downloaded it using IMAP. However, when I try to delete the mail, it keeps coming back. This happens even when I delete ...
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Delete rows in Excel based on returned value in row cell
I have a worksheet in Excel with values in some rows in column B that have been returned as zero (0) but still have a formula in the cell. I want to be able to delete just these rows using a macro.
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Windows XP takes too long to fail deleting an open file
Don't get me wrong: deleting a file is normally superfast.
However, if the file is in use, Windows will choke on it for exactly five seconds before displaying a message box indicating failure (access ...
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How to completely delete a wireless network?
I created a network from hostel wi-fi using the router pin number. Creating a private network is not allowed in my hostel. I have to remove the network, using the manage wireless networks option I can ...
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How to remove an infinitely recurring directory tree?
On one of our Windows 2003 file servers somehow someone or something managed to create infinitely recurring directory trees within some of the users' home folders, and they can't be deleted.
You wind ...
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Root Can't Delete Folder It Owns
Platform: CentOS 6.2 Shell: tcsh
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Brian Swift has pointed out a workable solution. ...
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Delete huge number of files on Windows
I have a directory that contains millions of sub-directory and trillions of files. And now I have to clear it. Saying trillion, I'm not talking about file size, but the number of files.
I've tried ...
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removing sites from the network icon in the system tray
With a lot of traveling to various hotels with free Wi-Fi I have collected a number of sites in the system tray when I clicked on the network icon. I doubt highly that I will return to these hotels ...
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Is there a way to see the deleted file “trace”?
I want to check if someone/something deleted files in our server (Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2) even beyond the deletion in the recycle bin. Is there any way I can view the trace of the deleted ...
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Cannot delete an empty directory in OSX
This post is a little lengthy, sorry. The short version is: I have a directory that I can't delete. Terminal gives, "input/output error," when I try to interact with it. I've scanned the disk for ...
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Can I delete a GPG keyring specified with --keyring while stream is currently being encrypted?
I have a project where I am encrypting a stream like so:
some_command | gpg --keyring tempkeyring.gpg --recipient "person" --output filename.gpg --encrypt
So while the stream is taking place and ...
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Completely remove user account and create another with same name in Windows 7
Here's my question simply and then the details in case they help to get me an appropriate answer.
Question: How can I completely and permanently delete a user account in Windows 7 so that I can ...
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How do you make zsh meta-delete behave like bash? (To make it delete a word instead of the entire path.)
Bash's meta-delete will remove one path component instead of the entire path. How do you get zsh to behave like that?
I found this, which seems to work. Is this the right thing to do?
One of the ...
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How do I recursively delete all files or folders whose names match a pattern in Windows?
For the file example, I would like to delete all files matching .+?[a-f0-9]{4}.html (i.e. any html file ending in a four digit hexadecimal). So paged47c.html would be deleted, but page.html would ...
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How do I delete everything on a partition, except for Windows? [closed]
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How can I free up some space in my C: drive?
I am running Windows 8 on a seperate partition right now, and want to delete everything on my old partition that contains ...
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Will deleting partitions affect my hard drive in any way?
I installed a Suse partition of around 200 Gigabytes on my hard drive, primarily running Windows 7. I am sick of Suse's crap, and just want to get rid of the OS and get that partition back for ...
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are archive files still encrypted after deletion?
I'm just curious. It seems that they should be but I googled the question and didn't get a straight answer. If you delete a file it only gets marked as free space on the hard drive and is easily ...
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OS X deletes all files and doesn't send them to the Trash first
Recently I found that when I delete a file, it asks for my password and then it will delete the file permanently without going into the Trash first.
Any way to change that, so that I could retrieve ...
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Delete until character is found
In my text editor, I would like to define a keyboard shortcut (say, CTRL-D) with "delete until character is found" functionality. For example, if the cursor is placed before the "H" of this text:
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thunderbird deleting my emails from the pop3 server
I am using thunderbird with yahoo pop3 account in thunderbird i have made the " leave the messaege on servier " checked but still my emails are being deleted from the yahoo servier.
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Can't delete ._Icon from Dropbox in Windows
I used Dropbox on mac recently and that Synced some files with windows. Now I'm not using a mac anymore and there's a file named ._Icon that refuses to go away.
I am not able to delete it, nor am I ...
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cvs delete project (module) and reclaim space
We have modules under CVSROOT that were created a while ago, but no more required/ever used or needed. They are just sitting there are consuming disk space.
Is it safe to physically delete this ...
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how show “Delete From Library Only - Delete From Library And My Computer” dialog box in windows media player 12
how can i show "Delete From Library Only - Delete From Library And My Computer" dialog box in windows media player 12?
i could n't find a way in options menu!
i checked do n't show this message again ...
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How to delete visible Desktop.ini, Thumbs.db and album art from My Music
How do I delete album art, desktop.ini, and thumbs.db from my music folder in Windows 7? I can see all of these files because I took the hard drive from my old computer and put it in my new one. It ...
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Stop outlook from automatically deleting items
I use the "Deleted Items" folder in Outlook 2010 as an archive, so I want all my deleted items to stay in this folder.
However, every so often (ever 2 weeks, maybe?), I can see some items from this ...
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Delete files that don't exist in another directory
I have two directories, such that directory B is at least a complete mirror of A. For example:
A/
directory1/
file1
directory2/
file2
file3
B/
directory1/
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When I delete files in Windows 7 they are not immediately deleted, do I have malware?
When installing software and in explorer.exe files don't show up as deleted! However, when I try and delete them again (with shift-delete), explorer says that "this file has already been deleted". ...
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I cannot delete blank folder which I created
Disclaimer: I don't have english version of W7, I'll try to guess the right captions, but they may not be always accurate. Sorry for that.
I have a blank folder which I previously created and I want ...
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Periodically delete .torrent files from a specified directory?
How do I make this happen? A scheduled batch file seems like it might work but I have no idea how. I appreciate any help!
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Windows 7 Unable To Delete Folder in “Programs Files”
I am trying to delete the folder in C:\Program Files\McAfee\VirusScan\Current as a member of the computer’s Administrators group. This is a standalone computer, so no domain or anything.
The original ...
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Remove all “deleted” files in Git
Is there a better solution for removing manually-removed files from the Git repository than my current error-prone command ?
git status | grep deleted: | cut -d: -f2 | xargs git rm
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Win7 delete hard link [closed]
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One hardlink is locked. How do I remove the other?
It seems I can not delete a hard link that points to a file that is being used. Is there a way around this, or am I ...
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Script to keep specific directories that contains a .txt file and deletes the files from the other directories without the specific .txt file
I am almost done with the script but this outputs directories. What I would like is to have an output of files. Anyway one of you guys wanna help me out? :)
#!bin/bash
( find /testftp/* -type d ;
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Used the internet and deleted history (Internet Explorer). Can anyone find out still that I used it? What can they still find out?
As the question states: I used the internet on a shared machine and deleted history (Internet Explorer), which deletes all of the following:
I do not want anyone to know that I used the internet ...
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Used the internet and deleted history (Internet Explorer). Can anyone find out still that I used it? What can they still find out?
As the question states: I used the internet on a shared machine and deleted history (Internet Explorer), which deletes all of the following: http://i41.tinypic.com/adoor7.png. I do not want anyone to ...
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Rsync : delete remote files after transfer
A little question : How can I delete some files after (or during) the transfer with rsync tool ?
rsync -e ssh -avl --delete-after --stats --progress --exclude-from 'exludes.txt' source/ ...
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How can I use the find command to remove directories without eliminating certain subdirectories?
I am trying to modify the following command in a script that removes directories based on age.
Example directories would be the following:
/a/b/c/2011/11/11
/a/b/c/2011/11/11/12-ACD-1234
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How to disable the creation of Thumbs.db file? [closed]
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What are Thumbs.db files for? How can I prevent them from being created?
I am using Windows XP. Everytime I delete a folder which contains Thumbs.db file, I get a ...
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Can't delete file because the item is in use [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
A file is still in use when trying to empty the Trash – how can I remove it?
I recently downloaded Python, got confused, and deleted it. Everything went fine, until I ...
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Cant delete files that “do not exist” even though they show up on my hard drive
There are three videos that I downloaded to my default download directory. I moved them to a different directory where I put all my videos, however a copy of the files still show up in my download ...
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Windows Batch recursive delete old files
I'm looking for a function in batch that recursive delets all files/folders older than X Days from a given path.
Is there a Fast and easy snippet that could be placed in a batch function?
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How to use Terminal to delete all .svn folders recursively?
what command can I type into Terminal so that I can:
delete all .svn folders within a folder (and from all subdirectories)
but not delete anything else
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Deleting C:\Windows\Installer\ files safely on Windows 7 after running WinDirStat hard drive space usage report [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Windows 7 and large Installer Folder
Has anyone successfully deleted the Windows Installer files successfully before? They are taking up 35.1% of my total hard drive ...
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Something keeps deleting my downloaded files
I have been using utorrent for years now and recently I was surprised that I had 24GB free. I thought that was because I deleted some unused apps, but after awhile, I noticed my Torrents folder was ...
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Cannot delete file in OS X
I have a file in trash, and I cannot delete it. Before you ask me to STFW, no, the file is not locked :-/
The file is a symbolic link to nothing (target is deleted). Here is the output of ls -lO on ...
