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Organized data encoded in a pre-defined format and stored on a filesystem.

In the computational sense, one-dimensional array of bytes stored in a filesystem, typically encoded a pre-defined format, often indicated by a file-extension or "magic number". More "durable" than in-memory storage.

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How do I find files with "#" in their names, on Windows Server 2008?

I'm trying to locate all the files on my server which use a # as part of their name, and can't seem to get the servers' file search feature to restrict its result to only # files. How do I go about doing this?
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How to let the users can edit in a shared folder but not let them to delete files inside

I'm an IT technician in a school. We're using DC and File server so the teachers uses a domain user by their own name. There are folders from the File server that are shared to the teachers to use, and the question is how to make the teachers…
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Network throttling for large file upload process

My application need to have a file upload component which will be uploading very large(>1gb) files. I'm yet to decide on the protocol (HTTP or FTP) to go for (Any help in this regard will be highly appreciated). Now, when one user is using this…
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Script to delete temp files for all users in XP, Vista, and 7

Basically, we have numerous customers running XP and 7 with a few Vista machines. I've found this batch script, but it is limited to the current user (uses the %userprofile% environment variable). I'm looking for something like this, but which would…
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Determine which files a process opened (Linux)

I am trying to determine which files a process creates when it runs. I know that I can list the file handles of a currently running process by looking in /proc or using lsof. However, the problem is that the program finishes in less than a second.…
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Why am I getting 'File in use by Another User' and 'Application Sharing Violation' errors when trying to open & and save files?

We're getting this a lot lately. Windows 2008 Server Windows 7 & Vista Client PC's Microsoft Office 2007 When a user tries opening a file on our network drive (word doc, excel spreadsheet, etc) the software reports the file is locked by 'another…
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how copy file to windows server from linux

I have a file on CentOS machine that needs to be copied to Windows NT server. I use \10.10.10.10 to connect to the server from my windows desktop. I can copy the files using the GUI, but I want to write a shell script on my centOS server that will…
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httpd.conf match absolute file

I have the following directory statement in my httpd.conf for a virtualhost. # something file specific This matches "c:/foo/bar/ * / * /baz/index.php" but also…
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File and Folder Organization for IT Staff

We are working on a project that will require the creation of new file servers and a migration of countless years of legacy data. Part of that legacy data is this random collection of IT staff files and folders that were used at one time (perhaps…
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Reliable file copy (move) process - mostly Unix/Linux

Short story : We have a need for a rock-solid reliable file mover process. We have source directories that are often being written to that we need to move files from. The files come in pairs - a big binary, and a small XML index. We get a CTL file…
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Removing DS_Store files and variants?

I am running an Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS server. Frequently I open up files using AFP from my Mac. Inevitably this created .DS_Store files on the server (although for some reason they are named :2eDS_Store. However, it also creates variants on DS_Store…
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Fast way to recursively count files in linux

I'm using the following to count the number of files in a directory, and its subdirectories: find . -type f | wc -l But I have half a million files in there, and the count takes a long time. Is there a faster way to get a count of the number of…
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Wipe out /tmp every week?

a few weeks ago, we setup a cronjob that wipes the entire contents of /tmp every Sunday at 5am. I wasn't really convinced that this is a good idea. Today we discovered that a certain task depended on an existing directory inside /tmp - the task was…
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Recursively archive small files in document tree on linux?

Given a base directory (like /home/user) is there a command that could be run which would create an archive back up all text files (i.e. files less than 100kb) in that directory and it's children? I know you can tar/gz a directory - but what about…
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Files on a Windows 2003 share filed server are not releasing locks?

What could be causing a windows 2003 file server to no longer release file locks? The locks are being created and not released by Legacy vendor code (C++ I assume) Legacy code, VB Newer C# code All with separate logging code (all locks are…
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