Questions tagged [files-folders]
Questions regarding files and folders can be tagged with this. Examples include questions about special files, hidden files, their folder counterparts, and etc. This is not a tag for shared folders, file sharing, and the like.
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Why do the "<" and ">" characters seem to corrupt Windows folders?
I was watching FlyTech's video, and when he made a pair illegal folders (one named "<" and the other named ">"), it made Windows think the folder containing them was ...
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How to get which folders are currently open in explorer?
The folders which are open are shown in taskmanager. Perhaps there is a way to access this information with batch or powershell or third party command-line?
I have also enabled the Restore previous ...
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What is the ModifiableWindowsApps folder and can I delete it?
I noticed a folder ModifiableWindowsApps inside the "Program Files" folder. What's odd is that this folder appeared on two of my non-primary drives, that is, drives other than C (where windows is ...
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How to restart explorer without losing open windows?
When I have to restart explorer.exe, usually I have many folders open, which get closed in the process. So is there a way to reopen these folders automatically after restarting explorer?
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Alternative symbol for dot/period/full stop that will work at the end of a folder name?
I'm looking for an alternative period sign that will work at the end of a folder name.
It's not super important, but in my music organizing there is an album title that is stylized with a period at ...
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Where does Windows 10 store the last visited files, recent folders, and frequent folders?
It seems there are more than one places where the visited files and folders are stored on windows 10.
This one I know, the recent-folder: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\...
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Some folders and/or files on external HDD are accessible on Linux but not on macOS and Windows
I have saved some videos on an external NTFS drive that my Linux system can see just fine.
When trying to use a macOS for the same purpose a folder I was looking for was simply missing. I didn’t have ...
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How does Notepad++ understands "last used directory" term?
For the term of "last used directory" in Notepad++ I have these questions:
What is the exact meaning of in?
Exactly which directory will be taken as that each time?
When exactly Notepad++ ...
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How do I sort folders by most recently added files in Windows?
I use the sort by Date Modified a lot, but this is absolutely useless for folders as it always defaults to when the folder itself was created, not when new files are added to said folder. I need a way ...
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How can I make new subfolders created in a directory inherit the parent folder's sort type as default (such as "date modified")?
So I have a folder within which new folders containing images are frequently created. These images are frequently updated, and I prefer to set them to sort by "date modified" so the most ...
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Change the storage location of a WSL2
I would like to know how I can change the location where I store the folder that contains the information of a Debian WSL2 container. According to the Microsoft Doc it is located in
C:\Users\<...
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Windows 10: how to protect myself from accidentally deleting a specific folder
I have a 'WORK' folder with client files and making constant changes to its subfolders 'CLIENTXX' and files within. However, i have a tendency to SHIFT+DELETE (permanently delete) stuff instead of ...
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Get FileZilla to ignore remote folders and just download all files in the hierarchy to one local folder
How can I get FileZilla to ignore folders and just show the files in the hierarchy?
I want to be able to download all the files in a complex hierarchy of folders (specifically, the Uploads of a ...
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Would moving files across folders and renaming folders many times affect the performance & speed of a hard drive?
To organize digital content, I move around files and folders many times (within the same external hard drive), as well as rename folders too. Would this affect the performance specially speed of the ...
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How to create a duplicate of a folder such that they update together?
Why there is an issue?:
I have a habit of organising my folder/files in the file explorer of Windows 10. I don't have the best-organised structure, and thus there is a need that if I update (by adding ...
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Why do I have 2 documents folder in Windows 11?
I have two asynchronous documents folder in Windows 11.
One C:\users\jakob\Documents with my documents from OneDrive (this is the one t"Documents" in the explorer menu to the left links to) ...
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Why folder appear as binary file on external hard drive?
I have an old external hard drive, some of the folders appear as "binary" work files and can't be opened (some other folders do not have problem).
The HD:
Filesystem type: msdos
Concerned ...
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Why do I have dead links to My Documents, My Pictures etc?
Up until Windows 7 I think (maybe XP?), a user profile was by default under C:\Documents and Settings\JoeUser\ , and in that folder you had My Documents, My Pictures and so on. Ok, good.
Now, in ...
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How to delete folders created by TexStudio and that won't delete?
I am new to Latex, using TexStudio on Windows 10. I did something unexpected after typing the command to include a file and I had not closed the expression yet, I clicked "Yes" when TexStudio asked if ...
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How to make all files in any folder in Windows sorted by date created?
When I sort files in folders I normally do it by name or by date created.
My problem is that in Windows 7, 8, 10, 11, date created is not a native sort criteria and it has to specially be turned on ...
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How can I copy and paste files within the File Explorer using ftp?
The Windows File Explorer lets me define a folder as a ftp location and I'm able to copy files into and out of the folders, but I'm not able to move files within the folder.
e.g. If I want to move a ...
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moving all files from sub-subfolders to the main subfolder inside the parent directory
Say I have a file system like:
folder 1
- subfolder
-sub-subfolder 1
-file 1
-file 2
-file 3
-sub-subfolder 2
-file 4
-...
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How to Get Folder Shortcuts/Links to Work When Copying Template Folder Contents to New Folder
I have a lot of 'template' folders, the contents which I use to copy into new folders that I create. My problem is getting shortcuts within the copied folders to point back to object the folder that ...
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Linux hangs when listing contents of large external directory
I have an external NTFS hard drive mounted on my system. This hard drive has a number of top-level directories. Most of them contain nothing of much import, but one contains hundreds of gigabytes of ...
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How do I remove this folder from the Windows Explorer navigation bar?
Consider:
I want to remove this "games" folder from the Navigation Bar, but I can't come up with anything to do. I have tried going through properties and using right click, but I couldn't ...
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Setting icon of folder on a removable drive automatically?
Is there a way to change the icon of a folder on a removable drive automatically?
I have a ton of folders on it, and I changed all the icons. The icon files I used were on the drive, but when I ...
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Can I save a folder's icon as png?
I have a folder with a customized icon and I want the customized icon as a PNG file; what should I do?
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How can I make the view mode of folders on a usb drive the same on different computers?
For example, the drive letter of a usb drive is H:\. I set the view mode of a folder on this drive to list. When I change the drive letter, the view mode of this folder will not be list anymore. I ...
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Replacing characters in multiple folder and file names
I have a large movie library using Plex (Local Media Server) and have named multiple files in the wrong order. Plex will disregard square brackets when searching file names for a corresponding movie.
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Visual Studio Code only show the content inside the directory
The Visual Studio Code only shows the content inside the directory and not the directory name. Besides, I can't have multiple directories at the same time.
How do I change the setup?
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How would I unnest multiple folders in Windows programatically?
So, I have a folder structure with some downloads that goes like this (I manually edited it a bit because it contains some sensitive data, which is not relevant to the question. The extensions are ...
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Win 10 - how to sort and display parent folder in a way, and 100’s of subfolders sorted differently from parent folder?
I already asked this, but maybe in a wrong forum...
I have almost a thousand folders, in Win 10, for each of my clients pictures, each folder named by the client’s name.
All these folders are ...
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I can't get my terminal to open folders or files with spaces in the title in macOS
I've Googled but on how to type in folder or files with spaces but it doesn't seem work.
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Shortcut to Open Folder in New Window with AHK
The problem: in Windows 10, at least version 1809, there is no shortcut to open a selected folder in a new window. Some say they can do it with ctrl-double click or ctrl-enter. None of this, however, ...
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Windows 10 - Sort option acts differently between two folders
I have a folder where, when I sort my files by date modified descending, all the subfolders are at the bottom. Then, in another folder, it is also sorted by date modified descending, yet the ...
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How to change default new folder name without parentheses and spaces?
As you all know, when you make new folder, its name is New folder. If you add second folder, New folder (2). I want to change it with newnew and i have changed it successfully with registry changes(...
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Change folder name with the name between ( ) with powershell
I have a folder structure and in all the folders there is a part between ( ).
Like "folder example(12345)"
Now I must rename all the folders with the name that is between ( ).
So the result ...
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Can i have a private / user-specific etc folder?
I am often fiddling about with software built from source, which i install in $HOME/.local. To make it run, i have to export various variables such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH. But i do not want to have to ...
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Loading of documents in Windows Explorer takes long time
Recently, my Windows Explorer is really slow whereby a green loading bar is visible for a long time.
I tried multiple options such as:
a refresh via the task manager
rebuilding index
clear explorer ...
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Batch rename movie folder(s) to movie file inside of folder?
I would like to rename my movie folder names to match the movie file name inside the movie folder. The movie files have the right names but the folders do not.
I've found batch file rename options for ...
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Deleting empty folders inside a folder for iTunes Media cleanup (Mac)
My iTunes library has some time ago split up into two locations and now I want to merge them, but before I do so I want to clean up the folders. In the iTunes Media list, there are artist folders, ...
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Tangled up file paths trying to take Desktop off of OneDrive
So, I don’t like that my desktop folder is in OneDrive. It messed with the performance of my old PC, and I was able to change where the desktop folder lived on my old one without issue.
I now have a ...
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Adding System Folders to This PC on Windows 11
I just reset my computer to attempt to fix another unrelated issue, and the Desktop, Downloads, Documents, Pictures, Music, and Videos folders were removed from This PC where they had previously ...
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How did I get "Windows Input Experience" folder in my Downloads folder?
I see a random folder on my downloads folder called Downloads/Windows Input Experience
I did not create this. I quickly did a search. I think it is something to do with the On screen keyboard which I ...
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File location, not the same as folder path. Video file do not play. Using Windows 10
Edition Windows 10 Pro
Version 21H2
Installed on 6/15/2022
OS build 19044.2006
Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.4180.0
Secondary hard drive "D:" the one with ...
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How can I determine if a directory is in use
During a desktop application reinstall or update, I need to ensure the application's resources are not open or currently being used.
Using a batch file, I'm trying to determine if a directory is open ...
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I don't want Windows SYSTEM to be able to delete folder [closed]
Here is my problem:
I've got a folder with a "dekstop.ini" file inside and some files and folders inside too.
I've tried to make this folder undeletable by the security tab in property:
So, ...
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I want to delete my React Native app I made using expo, but its telling me the folder is being used in another program
I made an test app using React Native, but now I want to delete it and start from scratch. I click on the file to delete it, but as it's going Windows gives me an error:
the error
I tried restarting ...
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I would like to move around 4,000ish folders and combine them with corresponding folders that have a similar name
I would like to move around 4,000ish folders and combine them with corresponding folders that have a similar name.
Example of folder names: 5 TAHOE VIEW COURT
Merge with: 5 Tahoe View Ct_Lot File
and ...
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How to copy folder and renaming it with incrementing number + user input
I want to create a batch file that copies a folder (containing subfolders and files) and renames the folder with "S21-999-CASENUMBER CASENAME"
The Casenumber is incrementing from 001 based ...
