Questions tagged [hidden-file]
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"Super" Hidden Folder?
So, I bought an SSD to upgrade the speed of my PC, and started transferring extranneous files over to a 10TB portable USB drive that I had. In this effort to reduce the size of my hard drive before ...
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How To show hidden Folders/Files
A few years ago, I had hidden my folders and everything using this command:
attrib +h +s +r FolderName/FileName.
Now I have forgotten all the folders/filenames. I, Of course know how to show my ...
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Folder only seen with unticking "Hide Protected Operating System files"?
I got an external flash drive, plug into my school's lab for use, and came back noticing all my folders have gone missing! The space shown taken is still the same
Then I played around with all Folder ...
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Why couldn't I delete files in cmd and PowerShell without `-Force` when I can do that in Explorer?
I copied some files using macOS Finder to an exFAT partition so I ended up having lots of hidden dot files in the folder. I can delete them without any issue in Explorer, but whenever I run the del ...
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How do I recover System files?
I used the attrib command to hide a file as system, something like this-
attrib +s +h example.txt
Is they any way to recover this file without knowing the file name and/or the directory?
I mean is ...
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How to remove hidden Microsoft files starting with ~$ on Mac
I have a Mac running MacOS 12.3.1. I've noticed that all over my file system, there are hidden files from Microsoft apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.) that start with ~$. All of these hidden files ...
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WinSCP is auto hide folders with (.) prefix
When I upload folders beginning with (.) such as (.dart_tool) to the server through WinSCP, they automatically got hidden.
I don't want them to be hidden in the server.
How can I Prevent the program ...
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How to remove files that don't show up in CMD dir list but do show up in power query
This is my first question here so I'll to try be as clear as I possibly can, but if anything is unclear please give me some feedback!
I am a Mechanical Engineer using the CAD software SolidWorks. I ...
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How to use keyboard shortcuts for hidden desktop shortcuts/icons?
I created a shortcut on the desktop and assigned a Keyboard Shortcut to it from the properties menu to it. Now if I assign the hidden attribute, the shortcut gets hidden and Keyboard shortcut stops ...
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Accidentally deleted .Trashes folder. What should I do?
When I unhid all the hidden files and folders on my external flash drive, I accidentally deleted the entire .Trashes folder.
I searched about it online and I got the answer that this "Trashes&...
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What's hiding inside this mystery audio file?
I have an unusual problem, of which I am struggling to find any answer.
After cleaning out my Windows installation, I found an m4a song file set as hidden in my documents (The Mother We Share by ...
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Windows 11 keyboard shortcut to show hidden files
In Windows 11, what is a quick way using only the keyboard to hide or show hidden files in File Explorer?
Windows 10 provided this through keyboard shortcuts for the ribbon, but the ribbon is gone in ...
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This folder(every folder in C drive) is empty after WIN10 update. But it occupies several hundred GB [closed]
After win10 update on last Friday, my computer didn't turn off, so I turned it off. After rebooting, the below line on the black screen occurred, it says fixing HDD some %, eventually it was checking ...
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Layers list is missing due to fliter?
I accidentally applied a filter somehow to my layers. I can't figure out how to undo it? I was working on a birthday present for my friend.
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After Backup and Sync tried to delete a file, I can't delete it manually
My access to a folder in my Google Drive was removed, and I had synced it with my Windows file system using Backup and Sync. The folder should have been removed, however, Backup and Sync is giving me ...
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Why does `ls 'C:\$Recycle.Bin\'` show nothing?
I have a lot of files in Recycle Bin, yet using either ls 'C:\$Recycle.Bin\' or Get-ChildItem 'C:\$Recycle.Bin\' in PowerShell 7.1.5 there is no result. Do you know why?
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USB folder hider/revealer
My dad recently gave me this 7 GB key shaped USB. The USB is really cool, but as a user of a 2TB SSD, I don't really need it.
Seeing that it looks like a key, I was wondering how to conceal a folder ...
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Unnamed folder in '/' appears as (permission denied) in xdiskusage, but not in ls -a
Somewhat scarce in space in my '/' partition, I ran xdiskusage, and found a folder marked (permission-denied), about 2 GB in size. It doesn't have a name (unless the name is also denied). I've never ...
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Why does WSL show files that don't exist in cmd or Windows File Explorer?
Why does the ls -l command in WSL return files and directories that don't appear in the Windows File Explorer or using the dir cmd command?
Output from the ll (ls -l) command in WSL2 Debian 11:
user@...
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Hide folder from Windows
There are many Folder hiding solutions. Check out this blog-
https://www.guru99.com/file-folder-locker-windows.html
Ignoring a few encryptors, most of them work by hiding the folder from Windows. You ...
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Total commander Hidden Directories do not show
How can I make Windows Total Commander to show hidden directories ? When I type AppData a new window opens, but is not by default visible in the panels:
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Invisible Documents Folder
I recently built a new PC and migrated my old 2TB HDD with me.
Its basically my D:containing all the data while the OS runs on a small SSD C:.
On my old system I made all Windows 10 "Standard ...
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How can i dump the contents of a file that was opened with nano in a running process? (Linux)
I have run the command ps -ef and found the following :
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
root 1 0 0 12:30 ? 00:00:00 socat tcp-l:1024,reuseaddr,f
root ...
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How can I add files to the hidden files list in Windows 10 locally without modifying the file?
If anybody else has used AutoCAD before, I'm sure you're well aware that it generates an enormous number of backup files (.bak). This is great and useful because it's a bloated program prone to ...
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Folders not available under Windows anymore
Many of my folders in Windows disappeared out of the blue. For example C:\Program Files and C:\USERS are missing in Windows Explorer. Moreover, I can't start any of my usualprograms with the Start ...
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How to hide an app or a software from windows search in Windows 8.1?
I want to be able to hide a software/app, specifically 'Google Chrome' on my Windows 8.1 PC.
Upon searching for the app/software, I don't want chrome to show up in the search results. Is there a way ...
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Files marked system and hidden - attrib cmd not able to change them
Recorder had files that are marked hidden and system. They were copied to a folder on the desktop.
Changing the view, shows them. Running attrib with the appropriate switches doesn't help. (See images....
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Veracrypt Hidden Partition Error
I accidentally mounted the normal volume (10Gb) and moved some files into there (~15Gb). The hidden partition is 50Gb, and when I try to mount now it is giving me an error:
"You need to format ...
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Is there a way to hide a folder from searches but can still be searched manually?
I am working on a number of manuscripts in Word using Windows 10. I have taken to storing older versions of these manuscripts in a particular folder labelled "Older Versions of Manuscript" ...
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What conditions must be met for system files to be copied along with a parent folder?
When browsing folders via Windows Explorer and when the displaying of hidden/system files/folders has been enabled, it's common to find system files that automatically get copied with the parent ...
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How will Windows treat the presence of the "$RECYCLE.BIN" folder on a volume if it's not hidden
So - here's the situation. I've recently been working on a hard drive backup that was copied from a failing drive to a replacement - specialised lab recovery software was used to perform this task. ...
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Hidden files won't go away - Windows 10
I have accumulated multiple different types of software for University courses. It has now come to my attention that there are multiple (.filename) files under my Windows C://>Users>watts. I've ...
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Re-hide hidden files?
Earlier today I was trying to view all of the hidden files on my C: drive. I found this article and tried the first method they suggested, which was to enter attrib -h -r -s /s /d G:\*.* in the ...
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Folders full of data disappeared, however shown in data recovery tools
We had a incident occur on one of our servers I cannot explain.
Corporate told us to install Apex 1 AV and Carbon black onto our servers and laptops, which we did. Within 1 hour of doing this, one of ...
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How to run a Desktop Shortcut key while the shortcut is hidden?
I have a batch file for a particular task which I want to access using a Keyboard hotkey. I made a desktop shortcut of the batch file and assigned it Hotkey in the Properties. But I don't want to keep ...
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Make files hidden automatically when downloaded to a specific folder (windows 10)
I have a folder on my computer where I save all the images and files that I want to keep hidden.
The thing is, when I add new files to the folder (either by downloading straight to it or by moving ...
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How to hide dot-files (files with name beginning with fullstop/period) in Windows 10?
In my Windows 10 systems many file names begin with a fullstop/period (like .ssh). These files in Unix-like systems are hidden files, how can I hide them all on Windows systems too?
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What magic do I need to use to read certain System32 files?
I have a rather simple program that computes the CRC32 of files. It works for almost any file, but certain files in the System32 folder are inaccessible.
The program is written in C++.
The files ...
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Is it possible to prevent files on a usb drive from being searched on any computer?
I have searched, but all methods that I found need to be done on computers. I have a usb drive, and I may use it on different computers. It's impossible to set "Indexing Option" on every ...
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Mac: What is the ~/.TI-trace file for?
So I have this .TI-trace file in my home dir. Google search attempts have been uninformative.
Can someone tell me:
Why do I have it?
Can I not have it?
What's it for, what does it affect?
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