Questions about creating, managing, using, and deleting folders.
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How to order folders by their content size in Vista?
How do I get folders to order by their content size in Windows Vista?
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Pretty print folder structure using linux terminal?
How can you pretty print a directory structure with all subdirectories to the deepest level in the linux terminal(ubuntu)?
This is an example of such a pretty print output for a mysite folder:
mysite
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How to override wincmd.ini location?
How to override wincmd.ini location after Total Commander was installed? I can't seem to find a menu item for this setting. Where is this setting stored? Operating system is Windows XP or Windows 7 ...
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How to physically reorder files `03.mp3 01.mp3 02.mp3` (`ls -f`) in a directory?
The physical order of the files matters when I copy them onto my USB stick and listen in car mp3 player. Most of my music album folders are unsorted, e.g. ls -f may produce:
03.song3.mp3
01.song1.mp3
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Why is Windows installer Folder getting so large? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is it safe to delete from C:\Windows\Installer?
The Windows installer folder is getting to be 8 GB. How do I shrink it?
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Check folder sizes and report combined size for identical named folders in Linux
I have 2 folders that have subfolders (named after users), most subfolders exists in both folders, but not all. Now I want to create a list of space used by each user.
I can use the following command ...
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Installation of large programs in Mac OS X
A few newbie Mac OS X questions:
Despite the fact that most applications can be installed by dragging them to the Applications directory, some software still requires the creation of a separate ...
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What's the deal with the C:\Program Files\xerox\nwwia folder?
It doesn't contain anything, can't be deleted. Seems to just hang there forever.
Does anyone here knows what its story?
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Accidentally blocked myself out of my private UNIX directory
I used the following command to see who had permission to my directory.
fs la
I then wanted to block someone out, so I used the command (and accidentally used my username instead of the person I ...
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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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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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How can a program open a folder?
I was trying to digest the info at Windows memory management revealed part one, part two but anyway on to the question. The website introduces a program called Process Explorer, and in the download ...
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How do I create a new folder shortcut key?
Does anyone know the shortcut key to create a new folder in Windows Explorer and in Finder?
Also, does anyone know the shortcut key to create a new folder on the desktop?
(I'm using windows vista ...
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How to set default permissions for files moved or copied to a directory?
My question is similar to How to set the default file permissions on ALL newly created files in linux - but differs in important ways:
I want all files created in (or copied to or moved to) a certain ...
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Folder with files shows as empty
Last night I create a new project in Visual Studio 2010, in the folder c:\development\hobby\devices. When I navigate to that folder in a new instance of Windows Explorer, I get the 'This folder is ...
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cannot delete files and folders with long names in windows [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Tool for deleting directories with path/names too long for normal delete
I have used FBackup to backup to my external hard drive and now I am trying to delete this ...
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Windows - Check folder size of specific list of folders
Windows Server 2003.
I've been trying to establish a way to retrieve the folder size of around 5000 folders, which are contained in a folder with a total of around 15000 folders.
So for example:
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Does this exist: a standardized way of documenting a file-system structure
At work, I'm in charge of maintaining the organization of a whole lot of varied data on a standard file-system. Part of this is coming up with sensible classification (by similarity, need, read/write ...
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Can I synchronize hotmail folders in thunderbird?
I'm using Thunderbird to load my Hotmail mail. It works fine (see previous post).
But there is one problem: How can I synchronize the folders I've defined online in Hotmail?
And is it possible to ...
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Volume mounted to NTFS folder (C:\Temp) disappears randomly
I have my temp directory (C:\Temp - system variable) mounted to an NTFS folder on an SSD (via Diskmanagement > Change or Assign Drive Letters > mount to empty NTFS folder).
This mounting behaviour is ...
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Convention on directory of file outside /var/www
By /var/www I am generically referring to the document root for Apache. Often times you want to work with files, but don't want them inside the doc root (PHP examples come to mind). The general ...
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Script/scheduled task to clean up Dowloads folder (Windows 7)?
My downloads folder is my primary connection to the internet (and thus the world), and has rapidly become a virtual junk drawer. I imagine I'm not alone here.
What I'd like to do is have some sort ...
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Sync file folder on removable device with laptop and desktop
[Recommended questions did not answer my question]
Here is the case:
I have one laptop, one desktop and one external hard drive. I already synchronise my documents and images by means of Microsoft's ...
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Duplicate file & folder detection tool with backup
I'm looking for a tool that will
detect duplicate files or folders,
delete them,
but before deletion will copy the file to backup folder just in case the program made a mistake and detect a non ...
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Unremovable folder on Desktop
I am unable to remove a folder on my desktop named http.
When I try to drag and drop something into that folder, another folder is created with a same name.
Moreover, when I intend cut or copy ...
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Prevent Firefox' directory-listing to display 'file'-prefix
Depending on the filetype, firefox shows sometimes a prefix file: (german: 'Datei: '), and sometimes not. Here is a
Screenshot:
I made those dummy-files with linux, and they aren't real files, to ...
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After enabling separate process folders, explorer doesn't terminate?
I have enabled the option called
Launch folders in a separate process
in folder Options but the second explorer.exe process does not terminate after all its windows are closed , so i have to ...
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How to backup a folder and it's subfolders to CD/DVD
If I've got a folder structure that I'd like to split so that it could be burned to multiple CDs or DVDs, what's the best tool out there to accomplish this?
The folders/files have to be natively ...
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Outlook 2007 Backup to D:\Outlook Fails - Access Denied, Write-Protected or File In Use
I can successfully save the Outlook PST file to the default location on the C drive (C:\Documents and Settings\user\ ... \Outlook) but when I change the backup save to directory to Outlook on the D ...
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Is there a folder synchronization tool with the following features? [closed]
I'd like to synch the music folder at my home and at my workplace (both Windows machines). It's about 10GB worth of MP3. I have a Linux (debian) server avaiable with plenty of bandwidth and disk space ...
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Sync folders between Windows 8 and Windows RT (Surface RT, MicroSD card)
I'm loving the Surface RT as a decent go-between device, great for meetings and conferences etc, especially with OneNote.
I have a 64 GB microSD card for the Surface RT and would like to sync ...
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How to run each snap-in as a different user
I manage 4 different domains on our internal network and each of them requires a different domain\user and password.
What I want to do is run a MMC and add 4 different Active Directiory (Users & ...
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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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Custom folder field for Windows 7
I would like to be able to add a custom field to folders in Windows 7, and then be able to show that column(field) when viewing the folder in Explorer (sort and group etc).
Question:
How can I ...
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Folder appears as a single file in Windows XP
Basically my cousin just called and said that one of her folders of pictures now is showing as a single file in windows explorer, and when she tries to double click it, the "Open With" dialog is shown ...
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When should I activate the “launch folder windows in a separate process” option?
In folder options -> view, there's an option that's off by default called "Launch folder windows in a separate process". I'm on windows-7, but I know this capability has existed since at least windows ...
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DVD/CD burning .zip: is it more reliable, faster, longer lasting to burn a zip of files rather than the files as a folder?
Is it more reliable, faster, longer lasting to burn to CD/DVD a zip (or a few large zips) of files rather than the files as a folder?
Just thinking if 1000s of small files would not be as efficiently ...
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How do you show hidden system folders in Windows 7?
How do you show hidden system folders in Windows 7?
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How to get a linux directory listing for files beginning with a certain letter that doesn't descend into subdirectories?
Suppose you are in a directory that contains many files and many subdirectories.
You want to get a directory listing of all the files beginning with the letter "d". You type
ls d*
and what you ...
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How can I limit a search to folders in Windows 7?
In Windows 7, when I search for a file, how can I specify details like "search for folders only"?
Is the widget in the top right of the window the only way to make a search?
Isn't there anything ...
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How to encrypt a folder in Mac OS X
How do you encrypt a single folder on Mac OS X without using a Disk Image?
I have heard you can use a Disk Image to do this but I don't want a giant 8 GB (the size reccomended here) Disk Image just ...
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Any free File comparison software for Windows?
I would like to compare a set of files and folders between two computers.
But there are so many folders ans subfolders, nested files.
So I would like to know if is there a recommended software to ...
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Why does “ls -a” hide some existing directory from the root user?
Today I found something really interesting (at least to me) on one of our test servers:
I can change into an existing directory from my actual working directory using a relative path, but that very ...
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View all files in folder structure (in Ubuntu or MacOS)
Call I view all files in a folder structure (i.e., in all of the recursive daughter folders) in one window? Command line is good, too (I'm on Ubuntu or MacOS).
Scenario: I have a bunch of pdfs in ...
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Windows XP - how to move Desktop and Favorites locations?
how could I move the Desktop location and the Favoriets location on Windows XP SP3?
Let's say for instance I want to move them out from "C:\Documents and Settings\User" into "C:\".
Is this possible?
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Automatically sort music files into folders by album/artist names
I have a large collection of music files (let's say mp3), with metadata, but all are located on the same folder.
I wish to automatically organize all of them according to their meta data inside ...
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What is this hidden Config.msi folder? (Not on the C drive)
I just discovered a folder called Config.msi on my D drive. It is a hidden system folder and I had to go mess with the security settings to get into it. And when I got in there it was empty...
Anyone ...
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Can I make a custom “directory alias” like '~' in bash?
In bash I can go to my home directory with cd ~ and actually refer to my home directory with any command with ~.
Can I make new, custom "directory aliases" (?) to refer to other directories? ...
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How to search a “Folder” in Windows XP?
This is insane or am i dumb? I just can't find a way of searching a folder in Windows XP. With Search i can only search "Files", not "Folders". So how?
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Create directories
Is there an easy way to create all subdirectories of a path in linux ?
Something like
mkdir /a/b/c/d/e/f
executed in / should create directories a,b,c,d,e,f
