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Any method/command/software to perform a relative file move?
I'll explain what's what I'm trying to do.
From a project with thousands of files, we want to remove many of them matching a pattern, but we want to store a backup. We are looking for a method to ...
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du which counts number of files/directories rather than size
I am trying to clean up a hard drive which has all kinds of crap on it accumulated over the years. du has helped reduce disk usage, but the whole thing is still unwieldily not due to the total size, ...
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Change the filestructure in linux
I am currently using manjaro and I have the following problem.
My root partition is 7gb and my home partition is 100gb big. Now packages always get installed on the root partition.
I tried to resize ...
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Reflecting changes to a file in a different location
I have five different folders which share a number of common data files between them. That is to say that the same data file may be present in more than one of the above mentioned folders. Each of ...
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how do I on OSX copy a folder from an external drive to my hard drive and only add the new files?
say I have on the external drive:
A/file1.txt
B/file2.txt
B/file3.txt
and on my hard drive I have:
A/file1.txt
B/file2.txt
I would like to drag and drop the whole folder over to the hard drive ...
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Are there File Managers where I can show connections between files in the same directory?
Without creating new directories, is there a file manager that can illustrate relationships between files/folders in the same directory?
For example, I would like to turn something like this:
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Continuously copy all file changes from one folder to another on change (Windows)
I'm working on a massive Java web application which is kept under centralized version control, but the source files are used to build and run the actual server, which then copies all the files I work ...
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File manager that uses tags/labels instead of folders for GNU/Linux
I love the way emails are organized in GMail. I have long wanted something similar for my local files. The ability to have one file located under multiple hierarchies is a great advantage, and links ...
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Explorer / browser for offline file system [closed]
I am looking for an application that browses an offline representation of a file system with a representation as close as possible to Windows Explorer (or another file browser). Ideally It should ...
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1answer
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Why chrome use a temporary file and then rename it when downloading files? [closed]
I'm now impelmenting a simple download utility. I don't know why chrome need a temporary file when downloading from the Internet and then rename it, instead of downloading the file directly with its ...
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Does this file format exist?
Is there a file format that handles the following use case...
I'd like to create a tar file (or whatever - I'm just using tar here b/c it's a well known file format for containing multiple files) ...
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1answer
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Naming a file so it appears at the top when listing files
What I want to do is make it so a particular file is listed at the top when using ls or browsing via file manager like Nautilus. I want this to work without any system configuration as the files will ...
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Copy a single file from main directory recursively across all directories within
I'm on a dedicated server using CentOS, and on this server I have 5000+ directories in one main directory.
In the main directory I have an index.php. I would like to copy this index.php into all ...
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How are files and folders moved on most filesystems?
Some file synchronization programs can detect when a file is moved (as opposed to a file being deleted and another being created). How does this affect synchronization performance? Do they unlink the ...
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How do I preserve date and time when moving single files?
How can I preserve the date and time information when I move files to another disk drive?
I would like to preserve the last modified date and time, and also the creation date and time. I want to ...
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Restructure The C:\ Directory Without Affecting Programs
I'm want to do some tweaking to my PC's file hierarchy, but just moving folders and files around disables programs that depend on certain files to be in certain hard-coded addresses.
One solution ...
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Should file names contain multiple periods?
I often name files using a convention such that I incorporate a version number at the end, similar to "Some Deliverable - v0.1.docx". Sometimes when colleagues make changes and send back revised ...
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lwp-rget changes file format automatically to .bin?
I'm trying to recursively get an html page to get everything that's there and save it to my directory.
Lwp-rget from perl allows me to do this but I'm having the problem that its getting all the ...
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1answer
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Does a file system like WinFS actually exist?
Did anyone actually release a relational file system like WinFS? I'm aware that different parts of WinFS got implemented into different products but does a relational file system like Microsoft ...
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Moving files but retaining tabbles
I've started using tabbles for file management. Unfortunately after tagging well over 100 files I discovered that as soon as I move the file it loses all of it's tags!
Is there any way to ...
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1answer
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Recover partially download file auto deleted by Chrome
Where can I find partially completed download file (from chrome ) on my system as(chrome and chromium) it delete them in event of interruption (NET ISSUE).
I need the file so that I complete download ...
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Bluetooth filesystem sync?
Does such software exist?
What I'd like to do is keep a set of files updated between two machines using bluetooth so that I may edit them on both computers, and changes get automatically ...
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How can I organise files in a disconnected manner?
I know that cloud and syncing solutions are popular now, but I've got a scenario where I would like to work with files in a disconnected manner (i.e. without a network connection back to the computer ...
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Tool for managing file routing on Windows XP
I would like to be able to see when a file is created/read/edited, and be able to reroute thoughs events to a new location the next time that transaction is executed to another local file path.
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1answer
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What was scientifically shown to support productivity when structural organizing/accessing file and folders? [closed]
My Personal Information Management problem
I have gathered terabytes of data but it has became a habit to store files and folders to the same folder, that folder could be kind of seen as a Inbox ...
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1answer
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How to create folder actions on OS X that run when the folder is “opened”
I want to create a folder action that is run every time a folder is opened, instead of only when files are added to the folder. From what I've found online, there doesn't seem to be a way; is there or ...
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How can I make multiple physical hard drives appear as a single partition?
I'm writing a basic media server where people can upload/download my content. I have 8 2TB hard drives where I would like to store their uploaded files. Problem is navigating a file system that I want ...
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Magic Number of Linux partitions
I want to know the magic number of the current partitions and also the procedure of changing the magic number for the file system types.
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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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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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A 0 byte file is 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 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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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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How the files in Windows 7's HD looks like duplicated, even when accessed via Ubuntu?
I have my "Downloads" folder in Windows 7, and I have dual boot with Ubuntu. So I mounted the Windows 7's partition of the HD to copy the files from my "Downloads" folder, and I discovered that there ...
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Graphical File Browsing [closed]
I am looking for a tool that can show me a graphical representation of my file system/file structure. Rather than the "normal" tree structure that we're all used to, I want to be able to visually see ...
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Windows File System Analysis [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Best program to visualize file system usage on Windows?
I am looking for a FREE tool to perform analyses on the NTFS file system of my Windows 7 PC. I want to easily see ...
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Media meta file system for windows
I have a large assortment of media that is currently arranged using folders. As the library has grown I've started to notice that folders aren't the best at conveying meaning. Also as the number of ...
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How Can I Create a NTFS Directory Redirect in Windows 7 Enterprise?
I am using DeepFreeze to keep my C:\ drive from getting corrupted, but I need the "C:\Users" directory to be redirected (like a virtual directory or alias) to "D:\Users" so that basic changes to user ...
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Moving a File While It's In Use — How Does it work?
I've noticed that on non-windows OS.... ie linux/mac i can do things like:
- Send a zip to a friend over aim
- Delete the file while it's in transfer
And the transfer does not fail.
Or, I can do ...
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Why are files not accessible from Windows 7 while accessible from XP?
I have a removable hard drive formatted to NTFS and hooked into a media streamer. When I unplug the drive from the streamer and plug it into my windows 7 system (the same one I used one format that ...
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Under Windows 7, how can I delete a folder whose name ends with “…”?
A friend with Windows 7 somehow managed to create a folder on her computer whose name ends with "...".
Normally, Windows won't let you create folders with names ending like that. I really don't know ...
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how to move a lot of folders into a sub-folder in linux?
There are too many files [*] in a certain folder. I'd like to move some of them into a sub-folder. How can I:
move first 3000 files or folders into another folder, or
move files older than 3 months ...
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Labelling/tagging windows files [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Where to find a tag based file manager?
Anybody knows of a system that adds full support of file labelling / tagging to windows (vs the specific-file-types-restricted ...
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2answers
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Why do different du versions report different file sizes?
at our organization we have a windows file server, which I use to store a large number of files. This file server is mounted using smbmount on 2 clusters.
Cluster A runs CentOS 4.8, and du version ...
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Consistent Windows 7 File Chooser
When you go to choose a file in Windows 7 from an application there are a variety of different file chooser windows that can come up. I have included examples below.
A large file chooser brought up ...
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Windows 7 Admin Accounts
On Vista, I was having trouble installing or using certain online games and some other software. It seemed that although the account I was using was classified as an Admin account, some software ...
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Are there any issues with having huge folders?
My site requires 10,000+ 1-2 seconds mp3 clips, saved as individual files. They are each about 12Kb in size.
Are there any potential issues with storing them all in one huge folder as word_1.mp3, ...
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GNOME File Management Framework
Over the years I have, like most of you I'm sure, amassed a personal collection of many thousands of files, which for just as long I've either been meaning to organize or have in a very rudimentary ...
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Why does .DMG copy slower than .JPG?
Pretty short story, I just wondered what was at play here. I have a windows 7 box with NTFS on it. I don't have any application that can open/read/anything .dmg on that PC. I have a 7GB CD image in ...
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List all files in all subfolders
In windows, is there any way to get a list of all files in a folder, including all the files within all the subfolders?
