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Transferring files from one storage to another local or remote storage.

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Copied Documents folder much larger than original

In setting up a new PC, I copied my Documents folder from my old machine to an external drive. The Properties dialogue shows this folder to be 19 GB and about 30,000 files. When copying to the new ...
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How to prevent windows from asking you what to do with this file?

So I have a Windows 10 computer and I tried to transfer 100 GB of data, approx. 10000 files and 10 hours of transfer time. I want to run this copying process overnight but the problem is, on file 3000,...
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How can get an exact copy of my PC into another PC?

Lets say I have computer A running ubuntu and I've downloaded several apps, changed the template to make it look nice stored tons of documents, code, photos, any file and set up specific commands for ...
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How do I slow down file transfer between drives?

I recently got a 2tb drive and I made the mistake of assuming the drive was working fine and moving a lot of my files onto it. I tried to move some of the files back to my original drive, but I ...
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Clarification on FTP - ASCII vs. binary transfer mode after having corrupted files

Recently I wasted almost two hours before realizing that the file upload with Filezilla corrupted the files (e.g. adding unwanted spaces or special UTF-8 characters being corrupted) after downloading ...
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Copy large file from remote desktop to local machine

I'm trying to copy a large file (14 Gb) from a remote desktop running "ubuntu" to a local machine "Windows 10" but after it finishes copy, I find that the copied size is only 1.6 ...
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Get-ChildItem in Robocopy not working as expected

I'm looking to find all .jpg files in D:\ZZZ_Phone_test and its subdirectories and then have Robocopy to copy those to D:\ZZZ_Phone_test\1\1\BackUp\ (which needs to be excluded because it is within ...
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What can cause the network connection to degradate from 1 Gbps to 100 Mbps

I have a home network with a gigabit router, 2 PCs with Windows and a NAS from Synology. All are connected to the router via ethernet cable. When i bought the NAS, i was able to transfer data with a ...
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Does moving files within a hard drive affects its life cycle?

I like to compress the videos I take to save space in my hard drive. The compressed videos are generated in a separate folder. Then I delete the original larger videos and then move the compressed ...
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Sending files from Windows 10 to instrument running Windows XP

I have a recently installed Windows 10 machine, which interfaces with several instruments in my laboratory. However, I have come across a problem when trying to use an instrument which runs an OEM ...
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Which file properties do RAR store?

Which file properties do RAR store? Do they store the "Date Created" and if so, how can I extract the files while preserving it? If not, are there other file formats that can do so?
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How to open shared Excel workbook larger than 5MB?

I was sent a link to a shared Excel file on OneDrive. When I click it, OneDrive says: Sorry, we can't open your workbook in Excel Online because it exceeds the 5 MB file size limit. All I get is a ...
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Pairing the Bluetooth device through a KIOSK application for Windows 10

I need to create a kiosk application in which I need to allow user to share files via Bluetooth. So, for that I have developed a GUI which will allow user to turn on and off Bluetooth,list all ...
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Copying large file with robocopy during remote-desktop session failed with ERROR_OPERATION_ABORTED

Today, it was necessary for me to copy a rather large file from one PC A to another PC B. I'm using Windows on both PCs, so that I thought robocopy would be the tool of my choice. The file was about ...
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How to copy a file from one user's home to another user's home

So I have userA, and userB, I have password for userA to login, and somebody already setup for me that when I am login as userA, I can do sudo su - userB to switch to userB. the setup works as (and I ...
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Transfer file from server to ubuntu subsystem in windows 10

I am currently working on a windows 10 laptop. I have installed the ubuntu subsystem (instead of PUTTY) in it to access the remote server. When I launch the ubuntu subsystem from my windows start menu,...
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Can original file get corrupted during copying?

I was copying music from my computer to a phone using usb-c cable, and because of stupid reasons, the copying process failed. (In short, turns out a new phone requires some dancing around bonfire for ...
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Any need nowadays to be concerned about the 260 character path limit for non-networked files? [closed]

For non-networked files, is there any need to take care nowadays about not exceeding the 260 character path limit? I am most interested in answers covering Windows 7, 8, 8.1, and 10, if possible. The ...
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Cant copy a 90GB file to a free space of 165GB

A C: partition have about 164 Gigabyte free space. Id like to copy a file having 90GB from X:\Software\Downloads\ to C:\Intel\ Unfortunately the copy fail because 164GB is not enougth space for a ...
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What's the bottleneck in transfer of a large number of small files?

While taking backup of a collection of folder containing source code (where I realized later that I could exclude certain folders containing library files like node_modules), I noticed that the file ...
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Copy To USB 3 Drive Start With Highest Speed But Then Significantly Decreases

I have large files that I need to copy to my USB 3.0 external drive. It's a HDD with enclosure. The problem is the copy speed. When the copy start it start at 110+ MBps, but after few seconds it goes ...
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File transfer dialog pops up while running zoom

I am not sure if this is the correct site to ask this question but this incident happened on my laptop running Windows 10. My laptop was initially locked. When I logged on, I opened Zoom. While ...
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Cannot copy data from HDD to USB

I am planning to reinstall my Windows 8.1 and install Windows 10. Two days ago I start copy data from my C:\ drive an unfortunately it takes a lot of time and sometimes it stuck in 30% and it needs ...
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is it better to use DDR4 Ram Instead of the Old DDR3 to Prevent data Corruption?

I have my Gaming PC which has DDR4 Memory RAM with i7 6700k and my Server Which has DDR3 ram with i5 3570k both running Windows 10 Pro without any kind of RAID now I transferred 4 TB of data from my ...
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Why can't Windows view new files on my USB drive?

I'm trying to transfer files from my chromebook to my PC (windows 10, no internet connection) using a USB flash drive. The files I have transferred to my USB drive show up on my chromebook's file ...
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Download a single identical file from multiple web-servers simultaneously

A long time ago, the download manager FlashGet was able to add mirrors from multiple different URLs and it would download simultaneously (1) from all mirrors. This can speed up connection in case the ...
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Why is the download speed so slow while sharing a file over my home network?

I am trying to transfer a file having size of 700 MB from one of my PC at home to another PC which are both connected to the same Wi-Fi hotspot. It boasts of having a download speed upto 150 Mbps. But,...
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Shell Progress Dialogs for a non-existent operation?

I have just made the switch over from Windows 7 to Windows 10 and noticed that while copying files that the Shell Progress Dialogs seemed a bit long winded (taking much longer than Win7). That is to ...
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How do I tell that OSX is done with a file from the CLI?

When you copy a file in the new versions of OSX you get a bunch of placeholders: I'm trying to automate some stuff from shell scripts and want to know when OSX is done with these files, however I can'...
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Limiting number of simultaneous users to a shared folder in windows

This is regarding the option in advanced sharing dialog of windows while enabling folder sharing. "limit the number of simultaneous users to" What action causes the OS to take into account ...
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Why is Overwriting a File So Slow onto a Thumb Drive?

I use a USB thumb drive to back up my most important data. I have noticed that some files write very slowly and I finally realized what is different about them. These are files that are being over-...
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Is there a way to assign my computer multiple locations to move multiple files?

My current issue is that when transferring photos and videos to my external hard drive, each transfer takes quite a while, and I must wait for the transfer to complete before I can transfer another ...
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Gigabit lan has slow speeds

So I am trying to setup gigabit lan and be able to transfer files across computers at over 100 MB/s. But I can only achieve 20-25 MB/s. My setup is the following: - Two machines: a brand new laptop ...
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Internal file transfers to a Windows-7 computer has pauses of 20s

This happens both with file explorer copying and with Robocopy when copying large files from a Windows 10 machine to a Windows 7 machine. The file will start copying, then pause for about 20 seconds, ...
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Transferring files via Windows 10 Remote Desktop Copy/Paste does not work

After switching my office PC to Windows 10, the Remote Desktop connection does not allow copying files using copy/paste anymore. Copying text to a remote machine works like a charm though. Steps to ...
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Why do Windows file transfers severely drop in performance after the initial period?

I have a Windows 10 machine with two SSDs. Sometimes, I'm able to get consistent 1GB/s file transfers between them for hundreds of GBs. Sometimes, after the initial high speed transfer, it drops like ...
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Batch script to move all *.doc and *.docx files to a new folder, while keeping subdirectory structure, when there are PDF files of the same name

I have thousands of word document files, both old and new formats, in a folder with multiple levels of subdirectories. Many of them have been converted to PDF files but I need to keep the original ...
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Is it safe to rely on zip to find data corruption in transmitted zip files?

In one paper I read that we can detect errors in the transmitted file by zipping and unzip, but I have doubts. For data integrity check, what if we do some operations before sending the data ...
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PowerShell move-item to same subfolder name within folders structure

I have folder c:\tmp with a bunch of subfolders e:\tmp\2044998 filled with pdf files. I would like to organize all files in the subfolders containing word 2019 to existing folder e:\tmp*\2019. Meaning ...
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Solution to copy only new files from location a to b

For a solution, I'm looking for a basic tool that can copy files from location A to B. There is one major rule for this: Only files in location A that where not there the last time the tool ran, need ...
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Do I lose speed if I extend a 3.1 USB-C cable?

I would like to extend a 0.5m USB-C 3.1 cable with a female to male 2m USB-C 3.1 cable. Do I lose data transfer speed if I do this? If yes, can I somehow quantify the loss of speed?
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How to automatically copy new files to a network file share on Windows?

I have a scenario where on a local C:\ drive a lab instrument creates measurement results. Newly created files should be copied automatically to a directory on a network drive, already existing files ...
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Use NGinX to serve static files or a file server

I am very new to NginX. I wanted to use it both as a web server, and for file transfer operations. I imagined it'd be something similar to the FTP server which can be enabled on IIS, however I ...
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How to update a copy/backup of a folder in Windows 10?

I have a large directory, which I occasionally want to backup to my NAS and to an external hard drive. I work a lot in this folder, but the majority of data (all my photos and videos) does not change, ...
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“The compressed (zip) folder is invalid or corrupted” error after downloading zip file Win10

After upgrading a Windows 7 PC to Windows 10, I get “The compressed (zip) folder is invalid or corrupted” error after downloading zip file when using Filezilla to download the file. If I use Windows ...
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When backing up files and folders, include or exclude thumbs.db?

When backing up individual files and folders (as opposed to creating volume images), are there any reasons to intentionally include or exclude thumbs.db files? The sources of the files are Android ...
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Does SCP between 2 machines copy file to the current machine in the background?

If I am copying file from remotemachine1 to remotemachine2 and I am currently at remotemachine3, will the file from remotemachine1 in background first copy to remotemachine3 and then to remotemachine2?...
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File transfer being handled by a different program

First of all, i'd like to say that i'm not sure that i'm asking this question in the correct section, as i don't know exactly what my problem is. I've never had this issue before but, after copy and ...
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Why does the nvme ssd transfer speed get decrease while transfering large data?

My laptop has PCIe NVMe 512GB M.2 SSD. And when I transfer data under 7 GB it gives me transfer speed from around 400 MB/s to 500 MB/s. But when I transfer large data like 35GB its speed get decrease ...
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Lost files when attempting to move

two folders with identical file names but different contents delete some files in B move all files from A to B conflict emerges with replacing files, press X to cancel move files already moved from A ...
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