A folder is a named collection of related files or other folders that can be retrieved, moved, and otherwise manipulated as one entity. The folder term is chosen to be consistent with the metaphor that the user interface is a desktop. In some OS operating systems, the term directory is used rather ...
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max folders I can store inside a folder in a linux server
Is there a logical limit as to how many folders I can store inside a single folder in a hosting server (linux)? I`m talking about tens of thousands of folders.
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How to prevent a folder from being cut, copied or opened from others?
I have a folder which is with in the www folder (/wamp/root/www). I need to prevent this folder from being cut, copied and opened from others.
Is there is any way to do this?
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Windows XP folders disappear on startup [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Folders disappear every timeWindows XP starts up
This is the same question raised previously as
Whenever my Windows XP machine starts up, subfolders disappear from ...
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Windows 7 fonts folder asks for nonexistent Admin
I can't open or add to my fonts folder... I'm asked for "trusted Installer" a user which (as far as I can tell does not exist.
Additionally, it also crashes Windows Explorer every time I try to open ...
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How can I copy files from A to B, only including files that exist in B?
Maybe could be hard to explain, but I'll!
I'm on Windows 7 Professional, and this is my scenario :
Folder "Asd" (C:\) Folder "Asd" (D:\)
File 1 File 1
File 2 ...
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Why can I not see LocalLow and Local when I type in %AppData% into the Windows 7 Start Button Search, and how can I fix this issue?
I typed %AppData% into the search box in Windows 7 that I get when when I click the Start Button. For some reason, all I see is the Roaming folder, ever thought I have confirmed that LocalLow and ...
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How do I restore a folder in SpiderOak to the 2nd last revision?
I want to recursively restore a folder in SpiderOak to the 2nd last revision of all the files. Is there any way to do something like this?
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Pin A Folder On Start Menu (Below My Computer) in Windows 7
I have a backup folder under D:\ and I download and keep everything there. I want to access it quickly like My Documents, so I am asking:
Is it possible to add a folder to Windows 7 start menu below ...
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How do I access application folders on a Mac?
I have a software program where on a PC, I can access sub-folders where the owner's manual, sub-folders, etc. reside.
It is cross-platformed and I installed on my Mac. How do I get to that ...
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Setting security for a folder in Windows 7
I have two groups: groupA and groupB. And I have six users: 1,2,3,4,5,6.
Group A includes: 1,2,3,4
Group B includes: 5,6
How to set up rights to the folder for the two groups to access the folder A ...
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Folder icon choice
The "classic" folder icon is a horizontal manila folder but the new folder icons are vertical folders which look like an open book. Is there any way to change the folder icons to the classic style in ...
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Can't access my shared folder by ipv4, only ipv6 and name
How to make possible to access to shared folder on win7 machine by ipv4? as my linux machine needs it.
The problem is in fact that i can't access by ipv4 to this folder even from this win7 computer, ...
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What are these folders created on my Western Digital 2TB Mirror?
On my external hard drive "Western Digital My Book Mirror Edition 2TB USB 2.0 (WDH2U20000N)", there are lots of seemingly empty folders with seemingly random names like ...
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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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Outlook: better way to organize sent mails into specific folders?
I heavily rely on organizing all my emails into folders (my brain finds email faster when they're grouped to a certain "topic"). I'm not only putting my received mails into them but also my sent ones, ...
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Where is the Mozilla Firefox plugins folder on a Mac
I downloaded Firefox and installed in my directory (instead of /Applications since I don't have admin rights). How can I find out where the plugins folder is located?
My related question: Installing ...
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Reduce Size Of Windows Folder in Windows 7
In normal PCs the Size of Windows Folder is 6 to 8 GB but in my Case its 25GB, How can i delete the unwanted files from Windows Folder which inturn optimise my C Drive size.
Thanks in Advance..
Mine ...
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Missing the MSOCache folder?
I am trying to manually delete Microsoft Office 2010 from my computer. I've been following this guide: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301/ and it tells me to go and locate the MSOCache folder in ...
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CNC Linux machine hangs when trying to acess a Windows shared folder
The CNC Linux machine hangs at this:
smb -s //NATS:192.168.0.201/FLEXICAM /flexicam/jobs/remote
I have Windows 7 on NATS as 192.168.0.201 and I can ping the other machine.
I think something is ...
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How to make the folder name as Album tag for mp3?
I have a bunch of mp3 and when I import them in Banshee, it's all messed up. The mp3 files I have are organized by folder and I would like to make the folder name as the album tag for the mp3, so that ...
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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 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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Search for all windows folders containing a single file (as opposed to 2+ files)?
Kind of an odd parameter, but it would be useful if I could run a search that returned only folders that contain a single file. Folders with 2 or more files don't get returned. Can this be done in ...
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Mac OS X Folder Sync Tool
I want to synchronize a folder containing a lots of Word documents between my MacBook Air and my MacMini. Im running Lion on both machines. If a document has changed on both sides I would like to have ...
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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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How can I remove a folder without a name in Win7?
I use Windows 7. The problem can be seen from the picture. I have tried to remove the folder "by mouse". But I failed to do so. How can I remove the folder without a name?
UPDATE: Thanks to Nifle's ...
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How to put 'on my computer' to Outlook 11
I am moving from Entourage to MacBook Air and can't find 'on my computer' option and need to be able to save emails in folders as the server won't allow me space to save.
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How to reorder folders? (as displayed in `ls -U`)
I've got a number of unordered folders on a memory stick, which my car stereo shows in order of their real position on the stick (i.e. same as ls -U) What's the easiest way of physically reordering ...
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Delete locked file/folder from command line
It is easy to delete file or folder from a command line.
It is easy to delete locked file or folder from a nice GUI tools like Unlocker.
But is there a way to delete locked file/folder from a command ...
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The windows “open” function on folders disappeared
I don't know how it happened, but when I right-click on a folder, the "open" action doesn't show up any more. Instead of this, I have the default action set to "Read with windows player".
How can I ...
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How do I create multiple folders with a batch file?
I need to create a folder (called "visitor") in every folder of one main folder. For example, my structure is this:
\idontknowthename1\
\idontknowthename2\
\idontknowthename3\
\idontknowthename4\
...
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Advanced search in windows 7 for only folder names
My folder structure is like this:
70-515\Chapter01\Lesson1-Exercise1-Completed-CS
70-515\Chapter01\Lesson1-Exercise1-Completed-VB
I want to search and delete all VB folders(including files inside ...
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How Can I create Folder.htt in windows?
How can I create Folder.htt in Windows7?
Does it work in Windows7?
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What is the difference between Local Disk and New Volume?
We have a product ,while doing some operation we found this error "Logical disk 'C:' was not found" . When i checked my "C" folder i saw its named as 'New Volume (C:)' , but when i changed to 'Local ...
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windows 7 restrict file access
If I want to restrict the access of a folder to myself only, and considering I am the owner, can I leave the Users and Everyone groups in the ACL or do I have to remove them ?
If I remove these ...
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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 change permission on a System owned folder?
I'm working on a Win XP machine.
By mistake I changed the permission of a folder in a way that only System user has full control of that folder.
My user has only read permission even if I'm an ...
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How to remove a folder with a broken name?
I use Windows Live Mesh to keep my files backed up across many computers, but I have one folder (that I think came from a rar file), called px 2 (with what appears to be a space at the end). This file ...
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What folders are necessary in flashdrive?
I just bought a flash drive and I want to turn it into a boot drive. It came preinstalled with a bunch of folders and files though and I'm not sure if I can delete them or not. Here's the list
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Reset view preferences for all mac folders
I would like to reset the preferences for all my Mac OS X folders.
Is this possible?
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What Are These Empty Directories With Unknown Strings?
Just noticed a lot of them in Windows 7 64-bit AppData\Local* folder:
Anybody knows what are they and if safe to remove?
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Add a new folder to each subfolder
I have main a folder say E:\donuts and there are hundreds of folders inside it. e.g.
E:\donuts\yellow\
E:\donuts\green\
...
E:\donuts\blue\
I want to create a new folder in each subfolder simply ...
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1answer
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Is there a way to disallow users from moving directories?
I have a shared directory on Windows Server 2008 that is shared between about 15 people. In the root of the share are folders corresponding to the clients my company has. Someone keeps dragging ...
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Creating folder shortcuts in the Windows 7 taskbar
Say I have multiple locations that I'm working with fairly regularly, and want access to them quickly - 1-2 clicks or key strokes. Is it possible to do something like pin an explorer shortcut to the ...
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File & Folders Label tool in For Windows
I'm looking for tool that allows me to mark folders & Files in Windows ..
I found this app but it's buggy and not working on Windows 7 64x.
http://eng.softq.org/badges.htm
Please is there ...
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After downloading Tweepy I don't know where to locate it
I have downloaded Tweepy, and I locate its folder in the following path, where I have other libraries such as Pygame and swampy:
C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages
… but when I import it – even in the ...
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How do I compare the contents of two folders on a Mac?
Here's my deal in a nutshell:
I use a Macbook and a PC, where I sync 2-3 large folders between the two with Windows Live Mesh.
About 5 days ago my Macbook battery died, and I just upgraded to a ...
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A way to map a folder in Windows Vista to fake drive?
I don't have a drive F, but I need to create a virtual. So i need to:
Create a virtual drive F
Map c:\xampp\htdocs to this new drive under: F:\htdocs
I need to do this on Windows VISTA
Is there a ...
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How to mount a folder as a virtual CD/DVD drive?
As a follow-up on my question VMware Workstation 8: how to fake a bootable USB stick?
How can I mount a Windows folder as a virtual CD/DVD drive?
That way, I could mount the folder as a virtual ...
