External Hard Drive Ownership
When i copy a file over to my external hard drive, everything works fine, until i plug it into another computer. All the sudden the files i copied require admin rights to be read or writen to, on all …
Tag: file-transfer
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,…
Windows friendly Linux file copy
In Linux, how can I recursively copy files and directories in such a way that all of the copied files and directories will have a name that windows can handle? I want to copy a folder into a shared …
Attempt To Use Batch Files While Keep Structure
I wanted to use robocopy, but it is not possible due to my text file has filenames attached. I ended up have to use copy instead. I wanted to copy files like this… Source: S:folderABCDE…
Self expire content in pen drive which can’t be copied
My friend has been working on few lectures and study material from past few years and now he want to sell his content. He is worried about his content being stolen or being used without purchase. Most …
What is the purpose/function of “.ßßß” files?
While trying to copy the contents of a 16GB usb drive, I got a warning that there was not enough free space. Checking the properties of the folder tree on the usb drive, I found a large number of “….
Windows: copy files and change extension without duplicates
I have a directory that has image files without extension. Let us say it to be D:initial. Now I want to copy those files over to D:final directory and change the extension to .jpg for each file. …
Copy from a cd specific file types to a new folder on a usb stick Windows
Trying to make a batch file that will copy a specific file type from a CD and put it in a new folder with a prompt for choice of destination folder name. I’ve had a hard time explaining how to find …
Why does FastCopy create exact copies of files that have different folder counts?
I use FastCopy everyday to backup all the files on my D drive to an E drive of the same capacity. But when I select and compare the files, everything matches up except for the folder count. What is …
Transfer large file from remote server to remote workstation
I have a large file on one of our servers that I need to get onto someones workstation. If (on my own workstation) I open the server folder and also open another window with the admin share (c$) of …