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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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File size on disk gets minimum equal to memory page size instead of disk sector size?
I often write small programs of sizes < 512 bytes, which is my disk's sector size. However, the du command always shows these files' disk usage at 4K. My memory page size is 4K.
So I was ...
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What characters are not allowed in SkyDrive file names?
I'm adding my music to SkyDrive, and a file failed to sync with this message:
Error: This file name contains characters that aren't allowed.
Resolution: Please change the file name so it doesn't ...
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Creating Mountable Image of a Partition?
I'm after a way to do a quick dump of a users HDD (typically NTFS, but sometimes HFS) on to an external drive or a network location, that saves an image of the contents of the drive so I can pick ...
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Reboot while repartitioning HDD left me with corrupt files
I'm trying to get used to the feeling that I might never be able to recover my lost files. Meanwhile, I'll try to explain the situation, hoping that someone might suggest a solution:
My HDD is made ...
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Why is the dir command not working?
I can see that the file is there and I can mount it with virtual clonedrive and play it with powerdvd:
But windows can't find the file:
C:\>dir dead*
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume ...
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How can I make Total Commander show “size on disk”?
Is there a way to make Total Commander show file sizes in "size on disk" instead of actual bytes in file?
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how does a computer know the extension of a file
Just a curious question, how does a computer work out what file tyue a certain file is. E.G. How does a computer work out that this pages is a type of html? of each file, s there header information ...
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Automatically Fixing File System Errors
This problem is related to my WD External HDD.
It has developed File System Errors. I found that out when I saw that the HDD is taking unusually long time to read the data and whenever I try to open ...
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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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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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File locked / read-only
On a networked computer, I have a file which is coming up as read-only because someone else has it open. This is not true. This is a file stored locally on the computer and it is not being used by ...
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How can I delete a file with an invalid character in the name? (Win7)
I am trying to delete a file named "Kanno, Yoko - Where Does This Ocean Go?.mp3" from my hard drive in Windows 7 Ultimate x64 and it keeps telling me that it cannot because the file name is too long ...
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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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Make a file non-deletable in USB
Somebody used my USB drive and upon returning it to me, I found a autorun.inf that is undeletable.
I tried changing it's file attribute which is only H (not even set as a system file) but it keeps on ...
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When I order files by an unusual meta column, does the computer read headers of the files or just a structured list like a data table?
Is there a file system which will reduce the need for indexing files and saves the meta headers automatically on the disk? It would work like a hardware acceleration for indexing all files for some ...
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New files Log monitoring?
I want to install (setup.exe) a software but before I go this, before I do this I want to know where it will install and what it will be changed.
Is there a software log new files and change?
Also ...
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interaction between firmware and file system in the drive
as I know when we are talking about drives (both ssd and hdd): firmware is a piece of code which regulates the receiving of the data as well as storing the data in the drive itself (using some smart ...
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Filesystem fragmentation on the level of set of files [closed]
The file is stored in blocks by the file system. The block is the smallest amount of data the file system can assign to store a file. The classical definition of a fragmented file is that the file is ...
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Save File & Directory Hierarchy
I have a folder like:
Folder
--Sub Folder 1
--Sub Sub Folder
--subfile.htm
--subfile1.txt
--subfile2.xlx
--subfile3.doc
--subfile4.ppt
--Sub Folder 2
--file1.xlsx
--file2.xlsx
I want ...
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How to remove $data stream from file in windows 8
Windows for a while now has added an additional hidden stream to files that were downloaded from the internet. If you attempted to use these files, you'd get all kinds of odd behavior as windows was ...
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What is a socket link?
After noticing an interesting environment variable Apple_PubSub_Socket_Render. I notice that it was referring directly to this "Render" file.
After doing a listing of "Render":
ls -lh Render
I ...
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HTML + Folders auto moving together - how to apply to other files [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Associating/Grouping a file with a folder in Windows so that they both are moved together
If you save an HTML using a browser like Chrome with "Webpage Complete" ...
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Photoshop CS5: Filesize difference when saving
Photoshop says filesize will be 1.938k
But actual filesize after saving is 2.96KB
Any ideas why this is happening?
Update 1: To clarify, I'm talking about File > Save for Web
Update 2: I asked ...
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Need information on a filesystem error:
I have console access to an embedded linux device. This device has flash memory part of which is partitioned as a FAT filesystem.
Its running linux-2.6.31.
However I am seeing these errors on the ...
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Calculating storage space for files, is my math correct?
Assuming 100K per file, that means 10 files per meg, and:
10K files per GB
1 million files per 100 GB
10 million files per TB
Is this correct?
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1answer
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Which filesystems provide good support for LARGE file and directories in general?
I'm about to write a program that will do a LOT of writes to create a bunch of big files, so I was wondering which filesystem I should go with, and why the workings of such filesystems make it so?
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How can I generate a list of files from a list of sectors?
I've had a hard disk failure and managed to rescue some data from the disk (1TB) with GNU's ddrescue. The last 800GB of the disk were perfect, no single error, but in the first 200GB there were almost ...
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1answer
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Files deleted from network share. Where would they go?
I've had a question posed to me by a user, they've deleted some files from a network share, and they're looking at somehow recovering them.
Of course, if they go for file recovery, it will have to ...
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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 are the alternatives of .txt?
For some reason, I can't save .txt files on my web server.
I have a text file hosted on my web server, but the ending is not .txt
I was wondering what ending should I choose, so that whoever sees ...
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1answer
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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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Setting the last file status change time
stat will report the last access time, last data modification time, and last file status change time.
utimes will allow one to set the last access time and last data modification time.
Is there a ...
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Attributes of a file
I am trying to determine what all of the attributes are of a regular file (as opposed to a symbolic link, etc.) on Mac OS X with Mac OS Extended (Journaled) (HFS+). Here is my current list:
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Differences between purposes of inode, fork and extended file attribute?
I was wondering what differences
are between inode, fork
and extended file attribute?
All seem to me store attributes
about a file. Are there differences
between the attributes they store?
Are these ...
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Relationship of iNode indirect pointers to maximum file size
Let's say you have an iNode that is filled to capacity with no indirect pointers. If you give it one indirect pointer, does its maximum file size simply double?
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ISZ (compressed ISO format) viewer for Mac OS X
Is there any utility available that mount or view ISZ files (the compressed ISO format used by Ultra ISO) in Mac OS X?
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Unix/Mac [bash/c api]: detect if a given path points to a file on a removable device
Is there a *nix command or C api that will tell the type of the storage device given the path to the file (resolving the mounts, symlinks, etc)? I need to find out whether the file lives on a ...
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Tail the filename, not the file
In UNIX (OS X BSD to be precise), I have a "tail -f" command on a log file. From time to time I want to delete this log file so I can more easily review it in my text editor.
I delete the file, and ...
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Files beginning with “._” [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the purpose of the hidden files from OS X on my FAT32 external drive (only viewable in Windows)
Sometimes when my wife works on photos in Photoshop on her Mac, ...
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saving notes against a file on linux
i want to save notes against a file on linux... i want to save meta data about a file..because the file names are restricted in max length...
so how to save notes or comments about a file on linux so ...
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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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How to change the address at FAT(or similar) to change the location of file?
I have a huge file which is about 67 GB is size. It takes a long time to move this file from one drive to another.
So is there a way, from which I can change its memory address(I dont know the ...
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Can't copy files with 'additional permissions' to ext4 drive — files that have @ after permissions, like -rwxrwxrwx@
I am copying files from Snow Leopard to a mounted ext4 share via Samba, that's on a Fedora machine. Some files cannot be copied, and give this error:
The operation can’t be completed because you don’t ...
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Find out where Data is stored in Windows Vista [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What’s using up my disk space?
Best program to visualize file system usage on Windows?
I've recently hit the cap on my 450gig HD and I can't seem to figure out ...
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What are “reparse records”?
My computer just did a chkdisk, and when it finished processing file records, it said it had processed 44 reparse records. What exactly are they?
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On a Mac, how can I find all files on a NTFS partition that have the same name, given case *in*sensitivity?
Here's the deal, I have a huge mess of files on an external drive that is formatted as NTFS. I wish to copy all of these files onto my MacBook Pro.
NTFS, like sane filesystems, is case sensitive. HFS ...
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Easy way to find out which process is locking a file or folder in Windows? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I delete a ‘locked’ file?
How can I find out which process is locking a file or folder in Windows?
For instance if you are trying to delete a folder ...
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1answer
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Unix: softlinks, hardlinks
I am somewhat confused what the differences between a softlink, and a hardlink are (on unix).
It seems like a softlink is the same as a shortcut in windows or an alias on Mac OS X. (Can someone ...
