Questions tagged [file-management]
Methods by which files are managed and organized. Could refer to file management by the OS or by a third party application.
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File Deduplication and Filtering
I had to run a TestDisk file recovery software on one of my drives. The result was a little over 16,000 files who's names are basically an alpha numeric string. Many of these files contain duplicate ...
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Service to execute series of commands on selected folders to eliminate issues with .DS_Store files in Finder
I'm trying to perform a complex operation on a selected directory and all subdirectories (recursively) in Finder using a Service I can assign to a keyboard shortcut.
First off, when simply issuing ...
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Is there a way to prevent a specific .exe from opening files from a specific folder in Win10?
We run multiple versions of a CAD program (Solidworks) on our computers (necessary for client work). Files created in newer versions of the program can't be opened in older versions. This also means ...
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Sharing files using file manager apps server does not work windows 11
I tried solution here but did not work. I used to create a server in any file manager and access the address like this http://192.168.1.5:5241 in Chrome without any problem but now the browser keep ...
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How to delete files from one folder based on another folder?
I have a folder with JPGs that are "good" ones. I then have a folder with ALL of the JPGs + their RAW file. How can I delete the JPG+RAW files based on the files in the good folder?
Even if ...
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Windows 10 File Property of a PowerPoint 365 document : How to recover missing author?
Author is blank (File Explorer view) in File Property of a PowerPoint 365 document.
Is it possible to recover missing author ?
Auditing is not enabled in said Document.
Thanks Ahead!
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Tracking file structure
git is good for tracking plain text and source code, but not for big or binary files.
What is an efficient way of tracking file structure? By that I mean just their names not content. (This is helpful ...
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How do I remove duplicates that have a difference of one word?
I have a folder with thousands of zip files, many of which are the same but for different countries. E.g. I would have three files called:
File 1 (USA)
File 1 (World)
File 1 (Europe)
How can I make ...
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Why does Windows magically "couple" some files like this?
I saved a webpage in my browser as HTML. It saved not only a HTML file, but also a directory with various image files and whatnot.
So I deleted the dir, since I only wanted the HTML file.
Windows ...
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Unable to delete a file that I am able to see and rename, showing file not found error on windows 10
I am unbale to delete a folder 'abc' neither it's inside folder 'history'. It shows 'Item not found' error.
However, if i try to rename these files, I am able to do so.
Moreover, even if i shred it ...
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Windows 10 ignoring case in filename
I tried to transfer two files from a computer cluster named test_A.txt and test_a.txt onto my windows 10 computer. I can only transfer one unless I rename or overwrite the other file.
If I run this ...
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Wha can't I move my Documents folder?
I'm running out of space on my C drive, so I started moving my data folders to my hdd. To do this, I opened file explorer, right clicked the folder (e.g. "My Videos") and changed the ...
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How to copy (in clipboard) detailed information of a file?
I'm working with Windows-10.
I have just worked quite a lot to get ShortSha information in the details of a compiled file. Now I would like to copy that information into clipboard but this seems not ...
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Linux how to move n files out of nested subodirectories from a directory to another one
I have a directory invasive/ which contains 60000 files. I want to move only 1000 files out of nested sub-directories from invasive/ to invasive2/
I tried to do the following:
find invasive/ -type f -...
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Windows Unable to delete file with reserved name
I git-cloned a repo for Linux divers(ath10k) having files named aux.h and aux.c.
Quoting the answer here,
MS-DOS Device Driver names cannot be used as file names in Windows. As
a result, we are ...
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How to remove group and others permission in Windows 10
How to remove group and others permissions in Windows 10, such that end result will be similar to chmod go= -R ~? I can execute the Linux command even though I am not a superuser/admin and I am not ...
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how to fill-in absolute path filename in mc?
Please, I cannot figure out how to fill-in absolute path filename in mc (Midnight commander)? I am familiar with ALT+ENTER to drop the filename onto the line, but that is just the relative filename, I ...
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Windows is not finding my file what to do?
Here is my list of files
Here is the result of search
Also crossposted to https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-files/windows-is-not-finding-my-file/49909b75-da38-4f94-...
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What is "Copy all NTFS Permissions" during copy files and folders with "Total Commander"
I am using windows os as my device.
I want to copy all files and folders from my internal hard drive to external one using Total commander program.
The reason of using Total commander is copy long ...
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Is there a written definition for line count of a text file? [closed]
Is there a definition or definitions for line count of a file?
A command like wc -l data.txt would only count the amount of newline characters.
But this ignores scenarios such as where contents are ...
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Automatically send certain filetypes to preset location
So the workflow I'm going for is saving the active webpage as .MHTML using a keystroke and make it go into a pre-set save location, so there's no interruption to browsing. I can easily get the .MHTML ...
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what is the equivalent of ctrl+h (find and replace) in cmd command line
I need instructions specific to the command line (Windows 10) to modify a text file, by replacing a word with another word I thought of the for loop but I did not find a command to modify a file text?
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bash move file relative to its position
As the title says, can I move a file relative to its current position?
Let's assume I am in the root directory, with the following file structure:
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├──home
└──user
├──Documents
└──...
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How can I prevent a program from mapping files?
I have some programs which use big files (writing to them mainly) and whenever they're running my computer almost runs out of memory because those big files are in memory (shown by Sysinternals RAMmap)...
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In Windows 10, where is a mounted folder's contents actually stored?
Question 1)
Let's say I have a mounted folder to my D: drive in C:\Users\Me\Documents\Homework.
Let's say I save a file in there called Assignment1.txt.
Is the file location of Assignment1.txt ...
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Keep the Favorite File/Folder on Top in Windows File Explorer
Windows Quick Access feature allows to set some folders as favorites and it shows up on the top on the left hand sidebar.
However, often, you are working on some folders and you would like to "...
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How to delete Config.msi
I'm having trouble deleting folder E:\Config.msi on Windows 11, and according to various websites I've read, this file is sometimes leftover after an application installation and is safe to remove.
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Looking for a file based on date created and the file type on Windows 10
I am looking for a file on my PC, but I have no idea what it is called. All I know is its file extension and the date it was created. How can I locate it on Windows 10?
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Remove ALL User generated Files from Windows 10
I have a question about file/program handling in windows 10.
My Problem is that i will leave my company at the end of the month and want to clean out my windows user account. I know when i delete the ...
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Batch file to recursively mux .mp4 and .srt from different folders
There is a new trend in torrents to release TV and Movies as x265 .mp4 with .srt subs in a separate folder, following this folder structure:
Season1\title1.mp4
Season1\title2.mp4
Season1\title3.mp4
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Recover files deleted with rm under msys2
I was using a bash terminal under msys2.
I have accidentally removed some user files with rm, under ~/MyDir.
Do I have any higher chances of recovering them as compared to files removed with rm under ...
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Find all files with given extension which are in folder with files with another extension
I want to clean automatically created backup *.bak files created by certain program. These files could be everywhere. There are also *.bak files which I want to keep.
All *.bak files which I want to ...
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Find out which process has locked a file or folder in Windows Server 2016 in the past
Does Windows Server 2016 have any logging available for which process has locked a file in the past? For example, if a process is failing while trying to access a file because that file is locked by ...
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Remote server: no such file or directory
Remote server shows some files (.csv) in a particular directory but I cannot open those files or delete them. I have tried using Windows File Manager, FileZilla and also Command Prompt using ssh. When ...
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How is it possible that the "created" timestamp for a file is later than the "last modified" one?
I discovered this while looking at the file properties in File Explorer in Windows 10 for some old .wav sound files I recorded using my voice with a microphone using Audacity and never modified since.
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Page Cache not Fully Released
I tried to release all page cache pages. First, I checked its current size. cat /proc/meminfo|head shows:
MemTotal: 11703912 kB
MemFree: 5637568 kB
MemAvailable: 7114944 kB
Buffers: ...
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How to filter files based on tag on OSX under a folder
In the finder, I can easily tag a file and access all files with a certain tag from the sidebar. However, is there any way to find all files with a certain tag under a given folder? Otherwise, I have ...
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Need to refresh Windows folder view using F5
I use Windows 10 with all updates done. When I create a folder, change the name of a file or move files between folders, I have to press the F5 button to make the changes visible.
This anomaly doesn't ...
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Does Windows end a file transfer after an RDP session times out?
If a large local file transfer (intra-system) needs to happen in an environment where RDP will time out if there is no user interaction, can one expect the file transfer to continue after RDP ...
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Copy subdirectories with the same name in windows 10
On my Windows machine, S drive, under the OF folder I have the following structure :
S://OF
├── FolderA
│ └── FolderA1
│ └── FolderA2
│ └── FolderX
| └── myFolder
│...
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New files not being compressed in a compressed folder in Windows 10 [closed]
After marking folder as compressed in Windows 10, new files are not being compressed.
Steps:
create a folder on your desktop and then right click -> properties -> advanced -> enable "...
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Powershell Rename-Item repeats if the number of files is large
(I'm just going to post every path here. It feels awkwardly intimate but what harm could it possibly do, right?)
Here is my PowerShell command prompt:
PS D:\Local generations\Tlungvel> ls | Rename-...
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I want to free up space from Recovery Mode
My MacBook's internal storage has reached nearly full capacity (until now I had not received a warning), and I'm unable to boot up the computer because of this. To free up space, I opened Recovery ...
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"Move" confirmation dialog in File Explorer?
Windows 10.
I have Tourette's and occasionally when moving the mouse I'll click it. Every once in a while I get unlucky and have a File Explorer window open and accidentally drag some random folder to ...
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File Properties in Windows 10
I am running Windows 10 (professional edition). I have many .mp3 files and many .aac files. When I go to the details tab in the File Properties window for a .mp3 file, there are entries for various ...
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is it possible to run the nnn File Manager on Windows?
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using powershell I installed what I thought was nnn (https://github.com/jarun/nnn):
PS> python.exe -m pip install nnn
how do I run it? does it run on PowerShell or cmd?
update:
the nnn ...
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How to open only one file out of multiple selected files without losing the selection? [closed]
I'm trying to delete multiple files from a folder, but there are times where I want to open one file to check it's content. When I select multiple files, if I just right click and open, Windows will ...
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Automatically remap folder's contents to different drive when updated?
I have a program that outputs data to a folder in my C drive (C:\Users\games\AppData\Roaming\Yernemm\OWET2\output). This program does not have a way to set the output path for it's data. Instead, I ...
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What are file (or directory) names starting with a '#'?
These appear to be special files because you can not cp them. These files (and directory) were encountered in docker image mysql/mysql-server:latest. These
files are:
-rw-r----- 1 mysql mysql ...
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Know if the running version of a program is the one on disk
How can I know if the version of a program which is currently running is the one residing on disk, or if it is an older version (that may have been replaced, e.g., by an upgrade?)