Questions within this tag should be about problems that occur while transferring files from one storage to another local or remote storage. At least one of both storage should involve a computer, so this tag could also be interpreted as problems occurring while transferring between computer data ...
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How do I transfer a file over ssh from one machine to another?
My professor wants us to email him source files, but he wants us to edit over ssh using vi. How do I transfer a file over ssh from one machine to another?
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When is it safe to assume file uploads are successful?
When I upload files to a server through HTTP or FTP, I normally download them again just to check that they were successfully uploaded (I use md5 checksums to check that).
Is this necessary? Can I be ...
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how do i transfer files from my pc to a unix account in school?
I believe Window SCP can do it, but I want to know if there is a command which I can use to transfer a file from my laptop to my unix account in school.
I will be using putty.
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strange behaviour with last edit (date) on files, after a copy on different place
Time ago I've copied some file from laptop to a micro sd hc (32gb, kingston).
Than, later, I copied the same file to external HD, and copied them on my new Desktop PC.
Both system have Windows 7 ...
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Deploy / sync files with automatic archive of files to replace
Is there a Windows application that can deploy files from one location to another, but also move away the files that are to be replaced at the destination, into an archive location?
Example scenario: ...
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USB transfer speed “logarithmically” decreases. Why and can it be improved?
I have an external hard drive. Just today I tried to copy a bigger file (it was film of ~230 MB) and at first it rushed up until ~70%. There is started decreasing.
At first it started at around 56 ...
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Downloading Images From a Colorspace UDMA to Lightroom Running Under Mac OSX Lion
Any advice on how to download images from this device (Hyperdrive Colorspace UDMA) to Lightroom in Mac appreciated. The images are present in the Colorspace device, but looks like the Mac is not ...
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cheapest device to transfer files off a camera via USB to take home? [closed]
what would be the cheapest device to transfer files off a camera via USB to take home?
That is:
laptop / netbook with a USB interface would be the normal appraoch, but was hoping for something ...
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How to setup anonymous FTP for file upload
I want to have a FTP server setup that allows clients to upload large files (2GB+ database dumps) by SFTP. The important point is that I want clients to log into the server with a single username and ...
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What's an easy (drag-and-drop), cross-platform way to transfer files on a LAN?
I need to transfer some files and folders from a Windows PC to a Mac (they are on the same LAN), with the following constraints:
I don't want to use a shared folder as the files can be located ...
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Transferring files between two PCs connected over WiFi [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Peer to Peer tool for File Transfer
I have setup WiFi access-point on my Laptop and another Laptop is connected to my Laptop over Wifi. Now, how to transfer files ...
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Why transfer speed over Fast Ethernet (100mbps I think) is only ~1.5MiB/s
Checking Google, 100mbps (Fast Ethernet, wired) is ~12MiB/s but in reality, transferring a file over the network (home LAN) is only ~1.5MiB/s. Why might that be?
I am on Ubuntu 11.10 transferring to ...
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What to do after a scp failure?
During a massive 10 hour scp over the internet, I ran out of disk space at the destination after 7 hours.
Can I use rsync or something else to run this to completion or am I **ed and have to start ...
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Synchronous copying to USB drive in Windows?
I've been copying a bunch of files between Windows 7 computers using a USB 3.0 thumb drive. I've noticed that copying multiple files together in one copy attempt is significantly faster than copying ...
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How to organize folders automatically into groups of a hundred?
I have hundreds of folders on drive A that I want to migrate to drive B. Within the drive B root, I want the folders from drive A to be put inside folders that themselves each contain 100 folders. How ...
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How to get files off an old laptop running Windows NT?
Hey ill tell you guys my situation and you can hopefully help me decide the best way to get old pictures off this laptop.
I can boot the laptop. It is running Windows NT 4.0. It has 2 USB drives, a ...
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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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How do we retrieve data from an unbootable computer?
Guys I'm in a big pinch right now. My computer (32-bit Vista Home Premium sp2) refuses to boot up (it keeps crashing with an error code 0x7b). I don't care about the computer right now but I need to ...
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How do I transfer filles from my Mac to my PC using a LAN cable?
I've been looking up this question online, but I can't seem to find a good walkthrough.
I have a Mac OS X 10.6.9 Snow Leopard (laptop), and I want to transfer a few gigs of stuff to my Windows 7 PC ...
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Why do my files fail checksums when transferring to esata dive but not when transfered off the external?
I have been using Teracopy to verify and the large movie files show artifacting after transfer and fail checksum, small files do not fail, only large files seem to. When I transfer files off the ...
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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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Broadband file transfer bottleneck
I am transferring a video (about 500 MB) created for a school project to my classmate's NAS box over our broadband connections.
She has a 15 Mbps down and I have 15 Mbps up, according to multiple ...
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Software for quickly copying large amounts of data over LAN?
I'm looking for some software for copying large amounts of data from a Mac OS X machine to a Windows 7 machine over a Cat5e cable with IPv4 connectivity?
Another way I could ask this question is ...
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Looking for a program to transfer large files with a “download manager” type of transfer [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Best way to transfer 27 GB from a PC to another online?
How can I send super large files directly to another computer in the Internet for free?
I'm looking for a ...
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Any way to restart copying of a large file from where it was interrupted
at work, I sshed to a remote server at another location of my company. I generally use scp to copy files from/to remote server from local Ubuntu machine i work on.
Recently while I was copying a file ...
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How do I upload huge files across the internet without using P2P?
I work remotely and have 44GB of media files that I need to send back to my office. There are lots of free services out there that can handle up to 2GB, but I haven't seen talk of anything larger.
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Kindle: File transfer over WiFi?
I can connect my Kindle via USB and transfer files between my computer and my Kindle. How can I do the same using WiFi? For example, from my computer is there a way to browse what's on my kindle ...
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N300 Capable wifi, with approriate router, why am I only getting 150kb/s on local transfers?
I have recently purchased the new Linksys E4200 which quotes Simultaneous Dual Band full N300 speeds.
It should be amazing. Through wired connections, it is amazingly fast. I didn't shell out 300 ...
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Linux, Can you scp a single file to multiple locations
Can you scp a file to multiple locations in the same command?
IE. scp file.txt user@ip-1.com:, user@ip2.com:
Or would it be more practical to create a bash script that has all the hosts already in ...
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Is there a good non-interactive command-line tool to send and receive files in Jabber?
In many jabber clients file transfer support seems to be not present/not mature enough to use.
Is there specialized tool to send and receive files with Jabber that "does one thing and does it well"?
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Wi-Fi file transfer similar to bluetooth [closed]
It's a pity that Wi-Fi is used only for network and internet connection. There's no information on a thing that can seem so simple – file transfer via Wi-Fi.
I can imagine it similarly to how ...
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Torrent Tracker for Private Downloads
I've recently come across the problem of having to share several large files with multiple individuals (data collected from experiments, nothing shady). Distribution through torrent seems the best ...
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Applications lost after transfer from memory card
I connected my phone using mass storage and copied all the folders from memory card to pc to transfer on another memord card. But after that, I couldn't find some applications and nokia maps wasn't ...
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Why is distributing random pieces of a file faster than a contiguous transfer?
Why is it said that BitTorrent is faster, partly, because it transfers random pieces of a file instead of transferring it from start to finish in a contiguous/linear fashion?
EDIT: But why do they ...
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How can I reliably transfer thousands of files from Windows 7 to OSX Lion
Lion seems to have removed FTP as an option for "Share Files" in the Sharing pane, this means I can't connect to it using a robust client like FileZilla. I have several thousand files that need to be ...
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Can I access an ext4 Linux partition in Windows? [closed]
Possible Duplicates:
How can I access a Linux partition from Windows?
How to read EXT2 from Windows 7 64-bit?
Does a ext4 reader for Windows exist?
I am currently in Windows and was ...
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Permission Denied For Service under Local Administrator Account
I have a service that should copy some files over a network, the service is running under one of the local administrator accounts.
Logged in as that administrator I can manually copy the files from ...
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Best way to transfer files over a LAN between two Linux computers
I want to transfer files (a music folder) between two Linux computers. After searching for the best way to do this, I've seen that there are lots of ways of doing this. I know this has been asked a ...
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Does It Make Hard Drive More Fragmented When Having Multiple Copying Dialogs?
To make copying quicker, i sometimes have several transfers windows together transferring multiple files/folders.
Does this method cause fragmented hard drive and it is better to have 1 transfer ...
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What are some options for transfering large files without using the Internet?
My employer's Internet connection is extremely slow. It's a $6,000 a month, 9 Mb, bonded T1, shared by over 150 users. It's not untypical to see regular file transfer speeds of 20-100 KBps. And ...
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Parallel port (LPT) file transfer software
I am looking for (preferably freeware/opensource) Windows (XP/Vista) based application which allows files to be transferred across two computers through their parallel ports, something like ...
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Transfer files from Windows to Linux over the network?
I have a Windows machine and a Linux machine both hooked up to the router via Ethernet cables.
What is the easiest way for me to transfer files from the Windows machine to the Linux one?
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How to transfer a list of files to offline user with basic windows xp?
I have a lot of files (100s of gb) and I want to give some of them to my friend. But he must select, which files he needs and I can't give him all files at once (I have no such big usb flash or usb ...
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SCP between two networks
I need to transfer a file between two computers that are not connected to the same network. I got a third computer that can see both networks through a VPN.
From the third computer, I can do:
scp ...
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Direct transfer of a file between two computers on the Internet
I have discovered JetBytes, Click2Copy and PipeBytes.
Those web services should make it simple to transfer a file of any kind and any size between two people that have only a web browser, without ...
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Client File Transfer Service
Background:
The company I work for produces magazines and brochures. In this processes, we receive images from photographers and advertisers, usually through one of our FTP servers. The numbers of ...
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Can't transfer file to external hard disk
I hit My computer and there I can see that my external hard disk has 147 GB free of 232 GB.
I tried to transfer a 5 GB file.
Does anyone know what's wrong? I can't transfer 5 GB over even though ...
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Slow file sharing speed over LAN
I have two ASUS UL80 laptops and trying to copy files from one to another. I also have a Linksys router with WiFI on.
The speed of a file transfer via router + LAN cable (or only the LAN cable) is ...
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How to use RSYNC to get unchanged files hard-linked and appended files copied locally + appended?
I'm trying to figure out a way to use rsync (one or more times) and possibly other commands (such as cp -lr) to accomplish the following:
Synchronize remote folder A to local folder B
I already have ...
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Looking for an FTP client with ablity of verifying
I'm looking for an FTP client with the ability to automatically check the integrity of uploaded files.
Both server and client will be Windows machines.
Does such a FTP client exist?
