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Questions tagged [file-management]

File Management relates to the efficient control over, usage of and access to files by users and computer operating systems

File Management topics covered by this tag include

  • Popular computer operating systems
  • Project management software and processes
  • Web server caching algoritms
  • Software development tools, such as XCode and phpCake
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Trying to add files, get error message: The operation couldn't be completed. File exists

I need to replace some images in my application. As a result I deleted them from Xcode and now when I try to add them again I get this error: and I am sure that that file does not exist in the project because I just deleted it. Also when I try to…
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How to expand ms-explorer to automatically handle "connected files" / sidecar files / xmp belonging to jpg?

If you locally save a HTML page using Firefox or MS Internet Explorer you will get a HTML file and a sidecar folder containing images that belongs to the page. If you move the HTML file using Windows Explorer the related sidecar folder is moved,…
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Best way to store/retrieve millions of files when their meta-data is in a SQL Database

I have a process that's going to initially generate 3-4 million PDF files, and continue at the rate of 80K/day. They'll be pretty small (50K) each, but what I'm worried about is how to manage the total mass of files I'm generating for easy lookup.…
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Ranger file manager - Access remote server?

Is is possible to access remote servers in Ranger (cli) file manager using sftp/fish/... protocols, example: sftp://user@server/home/user
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Properly move an object to the Trash

It looks like on Cocoa there are many ways to move file/folder-directory to Trash: [[[NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace] performFileOperation:NSWorkspaceRecycleOperation] [[NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace] recycleURLs:] [NSFileManager…
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Elegant way to store resources (icons, images etc) for a Google Apps Script webapp

Now that it is possible to make non-container-bound webapps, it would make sense to be able to put the app's resources (e.g. some icons and images, perhaps a legacy database etc) into the app - perhaps in a similar way that you can add further .gs…
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dired mode single window? (emacs)

is there a way to have dired operate in a single window so that when I traverse through directories I don't have n number of dired buffers for the intermediate directories? However - if I start another dired buffer in a completely separate directory…
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Java Delete files older than N days

I would like some Java code to Delete files older than N days. Here is my attempt, but it doesn't work quite right. public void deleteFilesOlderThanNdays(final int daysBack, final String dirWay) { System.out.println(dirWay); …
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Split huge file of integers (in one line) into sorted chunks with memory restriction

I recently needed to sort a one line file (integers separated by ",") into smaller chunks with memory restriction and efficiency in mind. I'm currently following this logic: File file = new File("bigfile.txt"); FileInputStream fis = new…
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Save/load files in app with Swift 4

my app needs to create files (e.g. .txt files) and directory to catalogue that file, that have to be stored in the phone. Running the app, I would create a specific directory, and a specific .txt file that will be saved internally. I come from…
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Hashicorp Vault for file storage?

I'm expecting to save a lot of documents of considerable size, from 1M to potentially multiple orders of magnitude larger. I know Hashicorp's Vault is great for secret keys and smaller values. I would love to get the "glass break" functionality and…
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Rename all files in folder to uppercase with batch

Is there a way to rename all files in a specific folder to uppercase with batch file? I found this code. But it renames files to lowercase. How to modify it to rename to uppercase instead? for /f "Tokens=*" %f in ('dir /l/b/a-d') do (rename "%f"…
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Copy files while preserving original file information (creation time etc.)

In order to ease the manual copying of large file amounts, I often use FreeFileSync. I noticed that it preserves the original file information such as when a file was created, last modified etc. Now I need to regularly copy tons of files in batch…
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Secure contents in Documents directory

Can anyone help me to make the contents of my Documents directory secure?
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Get size of file in windows

I have found this function GetFileSizeEx(), which returns the size of file in PLARGE_INTEGER that is formed by the union of structures. typedef union _LARGE_INTEGER { struct { DWORD LowPart; LONG HighPart; } ; struct { DWORD…
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