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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How can I find all the files that my GoPro contains?
I connected my GoPro Hero 10 via USB to my Win10 laptop. There is a 512 GB SD card (~= 477 GiB) in the GoPro Hero 10. Windows Explorer shows that out of the 477 GiB, only 10.6 GiB are free (i.e, 477-...
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file explorer shortcut terms [closed]
The goal is a way to route to a specific directory using file explorer in Windows 10 using a single term in the address bar. An example would be the environmental variable %programfiles%, to jump ...
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How to name files to easily insert something in the middle?
I have a directory of files that are consequent scenes of a complete video.
└── 01-feat
├── 00-home-scroll.mp4
├── 01-page-home.mp4
├── 02-page-about.mp4
├── 03-page-contact.mp4
├──...
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Toggle Directories in File Explorer
It occurred to me recently that I rarely will use the right pane of Windows File Explorer for manipulating folders and are most often a distraction when working with a folders contents. The left (...
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Can I safely mount a file container from a shared directory to 2 computers?
Lets say I have an unencrypted file container; I ran mkfs.ext4 on some file. Now lets say I've backed up this file to Dropbox and am using rclone to actively mount the directory containing this file ...
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Digital archive - solution with metadata
I am in charge of a small digital archive and I am trying to figure out how to manage it.
I have another archive of my owm, but since I am a photographer, I am spoiled by EXIF & IPTC.
The other ...
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How can I save a file from Firefox to /opt/subdir/ on a Mac?
In Firefox when I right click (Mac: Control+left click) to bring up the context menu and click "Save link as" Firefox on a Mac pops up a dialog box.
If I set the destination to the system ...
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How to use Windows file filtering in thumbnails view
If you view a folder in details mode and look at the columns header you'll see an arrow next to every one of the properties (name, size, album, artist, etc.). Clicking that arrow gives you a menu ...
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Does anyone have a way of Exporting File 'Creation Date' and 'Modified Date' in order to restore this data onto files from a backup
I am able to get the data I want using PowerShell:
gci -path .\ -recurse | sort name | select name, LastWriteTime, creationtime
The issue here is, I have an online backup solution. When you restore ...
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A virtual folder/index of folders in windows 10?
I have a folder with lots of folders inside, each of these folders have some folders which finally have files in them. See example below (the number of folders, subfolders in folders or files in ...
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Replace linked shortcuts with actual paths to files and folders in Windows
I have a folder:
X:\cases\XYZ and in this folder I have 2 subfolders and a windows shortcut (.lnk) file that points to another share:
Research
Files
3d.lnk ==> Z:\3d\XYZ
I have a user that wants ...
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Emptying a directory without globbing
rm target_dir/* apparently only works thanks to the shell expanding the wildcard, so calling rm with the argument target_dir/* in another way (in my case it's a QProcess in a Qt app) doesn't achieve ...
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Windows 11 file explorer isn't showing the correct date modified
I have a directory that contains a number of log files. The files are created new every midnight, and continuously appended to every few seconds throughout the day. My expectation is that each time a ...
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What is this large system volume information file?
I'm sure this is a repeat of a question someone has asked somewhere, but I couldn't find it.
There is just one file in my system system volume information folder that is taking up literally two-thirds ...
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Can I search and edit zipped files without first decompressing?
I know that windows 10 builtin file explorer supports this if I check "include compressed files" in file explorer settings. But it's too slow if there're a hell lots of zip files to search ...
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How to open internal storage from a iPhone using Windows 10
When I tried to open internal storage on my Windows HP it routes me to a DCIM file which is empty how can I open the internal storage of the iPhone or iPod also powershell is disabled and will not ...
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Remove-Item with force option not working
Remove-Item with force option not working
I am trying to follow along https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.management/remove-item?view=powershell-7.3 and implement ...
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Is there some way to make "file rename/move aware" foobar2000 playlists?
I want to carefully construct a great playlist in foobar2000. It's not hard at all. The problem is that I expect to move around and rename those files in the coming "many years", and if I do ...
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How to "intelligently" delete backup files based on their creation time?
Every >= 24 hours, my system makes a full backup of the (PostgreSQL) database and puts the resulting file into a dir of files such as:
MyLifeDatabase 2022-12-01 12;00;00.pg_dump
MyLifeDatabase 2022-...
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How to bulk edit File property details of a file in windows?
Is there software or any solution by which I can edit the comment section of a video file in bulk?
So basically I have an excel sheet which has captions of a bunch of video files as shown below:
What ...
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Using MD5 (or SFV) checksums to check if files exist
I've been familiar with creating and using MD5 or SFV checksums for years (using wxChecksums and similar tools), but here's a situation that's new to me.
I some ten thousand files (in a fairly complex ...
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Cannot delete a file with special characters in filename (somehow hidden file)?
Running dir /a yields something like this:
05.06.2020 14:28 35.328 2020.06.05 - xy.doc
21.10.2021 10:44 14.111 2021.10.21 - xy.docx
29.11.2022 23:50 <DIR> ...
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How to set the default program for specific extensionless file?
I use Docker for Windows and I work with a lot of Dockerfiles. They're an extensionless file which can be read and opened in any text editor such as Sublime or Notepad.
Related questions such as this ...
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Windows new install, old user directory super slow
I added a new physical disc with a fresh install of Windows 10. The old disc is now as let's say drive E:
When I use the file explorer to access the old Users directory, it takes ages to access. There ...
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My computer restore files by itself and I do not install any software
System: Win10
Today morning, I tried to open Microsoft Edge and it report an error: 0xc0000005. I tried to reinstall it and I made a rar in order to avoid data loss. It can not be installed and I just ...
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How do I "mark" a file as safe against Windows Defender and/or Smart Screen?
I have an .ahk script that I wrote myself that was quarantined on a separate work station. I wasn't prompted (that I myself saw), and only realized it occured when I saw an error message on startup (...
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How should one best save a "documentation" of a directory tree? [duplicate]
I have an old "music" directory tree with tons of files. Although it is being replaced by a new "music" directory tree (this time with FLACs instead of MP3s), I shall still like to ...
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I cant get the file to be read
I am trying to get the the read command to read from the file and put it in a directory. shellcheck says the program is fine, but I keep on getting a "bad file descriptor" message, and it is ...
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how to copy file/folder and preserve their creation date on windows 10
When I ran out of storage I brought a new Hard disk and of course I needed to copy all my data from my old hard disk to the new one.
when I tried to manage the copied files over the new hard disk I ...
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How should I best extract "all unique data" from six 45 GB .7z files?
I have just gone through the exhausting process of loading all my "gold backup" storage devices into my computer and, gradually, 7-zipped them and deleted the actual directory trees which ...
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Track from which computers a file has been saved
Is there any way to track from which computer (username) a certain file has been modified? From right click > Properties > Details you can see the creator of the file, but I would like to see ...
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Windows 10 File Explorer slow update
I have a problem with Win 10 File Explorer. Every time an update occurs on a folder, File Explore take long time to update and often needs a manual update.
For example: if I create a new folder on the ...
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How can I edit file description in Windows 11?
The description can be seen in the hint of the file or in the second line of the General tab of the file properties.
The older versions of Windows allowed editing the file description. It was useful (...
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Using command prompt or power shell, is there a way to move a bunch of pdfs to different folders based on the file name and folder name?
I have over 1000 pdfs that I need to move to their own folders. The pdfs are named "TRR 0000.pdf", where the 0000 changes, but the TRR always remains the same. So "TRR 0000.pdf" ...
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How to automate splitting clips into segments, shuffling them and joining them again?
Right now I am doing these 5 steps manually:
Split a clip into 15 second segments with: ffmpeg -i "funnyvideo.mkv" -ss 0 -f segment -segment_time 15 -vcodec copy -reset_timestamps 1 -map 0:...
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How to protect google drive shared folder contents from accidental and malicious moves?
Our volunteer organization has a shared google drive folder. We have years worth of files and folders. The contents are all owned by the various members who created them over the years. It recently ...
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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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Spanned Drive - Removal
I currently have 3 drives as dynamic drives spanned to create 1 volumne
Currently the drives equate to approx 30tb (10,10,12)
If i was to shrink the volume by 12tb.
Can i then remove the 12TB from the ...
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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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