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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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Windows Service Based Software to Run Script Everytime a file arrives

Does anyone know of a tool were that is service based which I would be able to run a script every time a file arrives in a directory? I would write the script all I want is the tool to be a service based application.
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Storage setup for large files

I need to store over 200TB of data (all types, biggest being video files) and be able to access it over a local network. The files will be accessed for editing or searches. I don't need versioning, but a setup that would keep me safe from harddrive…
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My folder is disappearing, how can I find out where it is going?

I have a CentOS 5 server that is file hosting by samba on a small network of 25 or so desktop server 2003 environment. Every night, a folder on one of the samba shares of this server is mysteriously disappearing. Every day we restore from a backup,…
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Any PHP post files data causes 500

I'm running WHM/cPanel width mod fcgi enabled, everything works great but posting and FILES data gives a 500 (the script being called is outside the document root). What would cause this, file permissions? - They are currently root:nobody 644 I'm…
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Can't see files in explorer.exe that were copied from linux

I copied a few files over from a linux NAS device to an external drive using windows 2003. On the external drive, explorer.exe will not show these files, however if you mouse over the folder before entering it, it does list the files. I also used…
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Moving/renaming files with %2f in their name into a directory structure

I have a bunch of files that were exported (from my trac wiki) that are named like ParentPage%2FSubPage but they actually should be like ParentPage/SubPage. Anyone have a quick and dirty way to rename and organize them, so that ParentPage will be a…
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1 user, 1 day, millions of requests for the same file

Help! Here's the scenario: I'm hosting and serving display ads. These consist of some media creatives and some javascript files to assemble and display the ad. The files are hosted on a CDN. We did a small test run with 1 ad over the weekend. It…
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database file storing security issue

One of clients of company i work in decided he wants to store files inside SQL (most probably mySQL) database. As far as i know it is possible, just by storing binary or contains of file inside. But thats not the question. The main schema would be…
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How does find command sort results?

I have an old messy shell script. One of the steps executes find command with some parameters and expects the results to be sorted by creation time. It works well on old machines (find version is 4.1.7). On newer machines the results of find are not…
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File in mapped network folder changes to read-only while editing

... the title is not strictly correct. I can "save-as" over the top of the same file via the UNC path. Yes, that's weird. Trying to save-as over the top of that again via the mapped path triggers a sharing violation, as you would expect. I get this…
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How to upload a large file in pieces to my server?

How can upload a large SQL dump file it's 1GB, is there any software that uploads the file and resumes it later or just cut it into pieces and then join them back on the server ? because ftp upload is not an option (slow connection). and thanks
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Profile files *refuse* to delete

I have a problem with some profile files that refuse to be deleted. I need to nuke these files so that one particular user can actually log on to this terminal server. Taking the server off-line, and yanking out the files with a live CD. (which…
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nginx static files caching doesn't work

here is my conf file: usr/local/nginx/sites-available/default server { listen 80; server_name localhost; location / { root html; index index.php index.html index.htm; } # redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html error_page 500 502…
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Web server www files storage

I am currently setting up a few virtual machines with Ubuntu Server 10.04.02 on them and was wondering what is the best place to store the www files. I will be using nginx and I see that the default /var/www can be changed to something else. Cpanel…
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Using Amazon S3 for multiple remote data site uploads, securely

I've been playing about with Amazon S3 a little for the first time and like what I see for various reasons relating to my potential use case. We have multiple (online) remote server boxes harvesting sensor data that is regularly uploaded every hour…
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