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Avoid file system cache during read/write to flash memory
Is there a way to do kind of a direct i/o to the flash part on a portable consumer electronic device like iPhone etc. I want to do this to characterize the flash part performance and completely want ...
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syncing files on different machines [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Syncing Tool Between 2 Folders
How do you sync files in a two different folders, on two different computers, on the same network, so that when one is added or updated to ...
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Subdirectory naming convention [closed]
I have a big directory of data/code that I am reorganizing following these useful guidelines. As a result I will create a lot of subdirectories. I would like to standardize the subdirectory names with ...
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Show windows folder/programs increasing/downloading the most data in the past?
On the road I'm using smartphone-tethering to connect my Windows 7 Notebook to internet. Mobile connection speed is decreased from 3G to ISDN after distinct data volume, so you have to keep an eye on ...
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windows folder with millions of files not responding
I am using windows 7 64-bit on q6600 with 4gb ram.
I have a folder with 2 million files which are 10kB on average.
windows 7 explorer stops responding when I open the folder.
how can I overcome ...
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size 0byte file created on desktop
I have a empty folder by the name dev that was somehow created on my Windows7 laptop.It contains a file by the name nul.It has size 0 Bytes and both the folder and the file are hidden and read-only.I ...
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How can I set the file menu to always show details?
How can I set the file menu to always show details of files?
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Alternative to CTRL selecting a bunch of files
I am moving several images from a folder to another in the Nautilus file manager. I am doing this by holding the CTRL key and clicking the images I want. Everytime I forget to hold CTRL the current ...
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Is it possible to allow users to create files/folders and prevent deleting folders?
I have a Windows 7 computer that has several users. I have a parent folder that is shared with the users. I want certain users to be able to create files/folders within this parent folder. However, I ...
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Looking for batch automation program to reorganize/move/sort files into a new folder/directory structure based on file name content (Windows)
I have music files that already have artist name and title in the file name. However the files are currently not well organised in folders.
I don't require audio-fingerprinting.
Is there a program ...
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How to store and preserve lots of data?
I have many DVDs with movies and games, they are getting old and dusty, some of them are damaged. And I have more than 300 GB of general files in my PC. I want to store and preserve all of my data and ...
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How to remove files based on their extension using ssh
I need to removed files in my folders that ends in .txt using ssh. This is what I have tried so far:
find /models/ -name *.txt" -type d -exec rm -rf {} \;
Inside these main folder model I have ...
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How can I move files from 2-level folders to 1-level folder
I have a bunch of files stored in a file directory as such
root_folder
-- folder1
--folder1_2
--bunch of files here
-- folder2
--folder2_2
--bunch of files here
-- ...
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Move Folders Containing Certain File
I'm trying to sort out a bunch of folders in Windows 7. I have a bunch of folders and some contain a file index.txt and some don't. What I want to do is move the folders that do have index.txt into a ...
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Ebook management: alternatives to Calibre that catalog/access files in their original location
I am looking for something like Calibre that allows me to access and assign tags to existing pdf or other ebook files without having to modify/move/copy any of them, on Windows. This is because many ...
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How to tell full path of file on Mac?
I have a text file opened up in TextEdit, and I can't seem to figure out the full path of the file.
Also, if I search for the file in spotlight, it doesn't seem to tell me the full path of the file ...
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Custom attributes for files/folders in Windows 7 possible?
Is there any way to tag folders/files in Windows 7 with custom attributes, that would be applicable to any file format (not stored within a file)?
For example, to create artificial folders (allowing ...
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Is there a Windows GUI application that can perform file management functions on my Linux box?
Is there anything like an FTP program available that will allow me more control over file management on my Linux box?
I'd like to be able to do things like create archives and unzip archives. At the ...
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What is the fastest way to mirror a directory tree on a DVD to a local hard disk in Windows 7
Recently I had DVD with a folder that contained over 83,000 files and folders. When I went to mirror this folder onto a local harddrive with ROBOCOPY I quickly discovered that more than an hour had ...
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Track File Usage in Windows 7
I'm looking for a utlity to track what files are being accessed on a given drive. I've got a drive of files that are accessed by other users, but trying to determine what to delete is difficult as I ...
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File systems in UNIX vs. Windows vs. Mac OS [closed]
Do the current Windows and Mac OS file systems (FAT, NTFS, HFS+) use bit tables and bit vectors for part of doing free space management for file management or is this concept only related to modern ...
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How to tell app to convert files per subdirectory?
I have a question similar to this one : Copy directory structure without copying files, on Mac OS X
Assuming a similarly annoying directory structure (A/B/C/file.end), i want to feed that into a ...
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Arrange videos by date although some aren't in folders?
I have some videos in folders and some aren't in folders so when I want to arrange by "date modified" the ones without folders stay in a bunch at the top in order and the ones in folders stay ...
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Extracting .rar files in Windows with current datetime
One thing I like about Windows zip files is that the extracted files automatically have the current time (as opposed to the original time). I have yet to find a way to apply the same for extracted ...
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Moving one large archive, or many individual files and folders?
Is it faster to move files between media in large pieces (i.e. many files and folders within an archive) or move them file-by-file? Is there a significant difference, considering that the file ...
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Is there a way to use * in the destination of cp, mv, etc?
On DOS/Windows Shell (shhh) you can do this kind of thing:
ren *.doc *.txt
copy my-precious-document.doc *-backup.doc
Is there a way to do this is the Linux (including OS X) world? It's a very ...
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How to drag-select multiple files in Mac OS X?
Here's what I do know:
I can click to select a file
I can click SHIFT to select a range
I can use COMMAND to add or subtract from and existing selection
I can select by clicking on an empty space and ...
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How to retrieve teamviewer permanent password?
For some reason I can not change the permament password associated with a teamviewer installation, but I need to retrieve it...
I looked into HKCU\Software\Teamviewer but without result...
Where ...
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How could I transfer files to a PC, but not allow to download them again?
I'm looking for suggestions on setting up a Windows 7 PC so that a remote worker can upload any type of file TO the PC, but must never be able to download or transfer any files from the PC, including ...
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Using the right folder for the right job. Article link, please? [closed]
There are specific folders designed for specific tasks. /var/www holds your web sites, /usr/bin contains files to run your applications...yet I still find myself putting nearly all of my work in ~. Is ...
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How do I monitor the size of a file?
Is there a program that constantly checks a certain file size on hard drive, like every 5 minutes or something?
If the file size stops increasing, I would run some action X (X set by the user – like ...
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FileZilla as local files manager - comparing files and directories on local disks
Is there a way to open local directory instead of server directory?
Do you know if there is some plugin to make it avaible?
I would like to use FileZilla as local file manager just to compare ...
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Moved Word 2007 .docx to a newly created “Word Docs” SUBfolder within Documents libary… now they won't open
The error box TITLE is wierdly the document's full path name, titled: "C:\Users\Me\Documents\Word Docs\file name.docx" with an error message inside the popup dialog box: "There was a problem sending ...
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Is there a free solution for watching a folder for changes and copying specific files on change?
What I want isn't very much and I can't seem to find any free software to do it for me. I really don't want to make my own program seeing as this seems like a common scenario.
Watch a specific ...
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Which remote file managers for Windows don't require port forwarding?
You should be able to connect to the host computer easily and access all the harddisk, usb-sticks and network drives remotely, without needing to use port forwarding on the router (so no FTP). I do ...
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Windows 7 strange large files and missing capacity
i need your help.
In
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Windows\System32
i found this
file __rar_01.006
and it's size is 1,7GB!!! can i delete it?
and more:
if i trying ...
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“Access is denied” warning message when trying to view C:\Users\All Users\Desktop
When I try to access C:\Users\All Users\Desktop, it gives me "Access is denied", even though I'm using an administrator account.
So what I did was I right click the folder >> Properties >> Security.
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How to get file in the order that the user moved them?
I have a user that "sorted" a network folder full of photo by dragging each photo and dropping it before another photo. He did not rename the file at all. On his Windows XP, the Windows Explorer shows ...
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Opensource duplicate finder for directories?
Is there an open source tool that will tell me if two directories have byte-for-byte identical content? I need a tool that confirms if two directories are the same. A listing of files that I need to ...
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Utility to browse recent files in Windows?
Does anyone have a suggestion for a recent files browser utility for Windows?
I'm looking for something like NirSoft's RecentFilesView:
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/recent_files_view.html
But I ...
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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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Restore file dates by contents comparison
I have two folders A and B that contain files and other folders (no links though).
B has a bit more up to date conent (extra files, modified files etc).
However, B has wrong file modification dates ...
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combing ftp, skydrive and file hosting program [closed]
Here is what I want to do:
I have a bunch of my files on my computer.
I have a bunch of my homework/notes (latex files) in my school
account which is accessible through ftp.
I want to keep history ...
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Windows 7 - Always select the “bigger” file when merging directories?
Is it possible to only merge/move/copy the larger file when merging two directories of the same name in Windows 7?
My specific scenario is merging two music libraries from old machines onto a new ...
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What are users doing that cause .lnk files to be created on a fileserver
Looking to do hard drive cleanup and I am finding huge amounts of shortcuts on the fileserver created by a few different users.
I wonder if there is something about their computer's setup, or their ...
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Enable “file location” column in OS X search results?
In Windows there is a nice option to have "in folder" as a column option. Is this possible with OS X?
Here is a search results window on OS X:
And here it is on Windows:
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How does a file have NO EXTENSION?
Take for instance:
cat /etc/passwd
Why doesn't this file have an extension such as .txt, .dat, etc? Or does an extension exist, but it's just being hidden?
Does this apply strictly to Unix-like ...
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Which compression program/algorithm produces the smallest archive file?
I have a directory full of avi files. I'd like to compress this directory into an archive of the smallest possible size. What compression software would produce the smallest archive file?
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What does the computer have to do to move some files around?
I was trying to move some files into a folder (E: to E: so i'm pretty sure it's moving and not copying) but it's taking like minutes just to move some 60k files. I was under the impression that file ...
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Concatenating files from multiple subdirectories
Say I have a directory structure that looks like this:
file1.txt
folder1/
file2.txt
folder2/
file3.txt
How can I concatenate file1.txt, file2.txt, and file3.txt into a single file?
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