Questions tagged [copy]
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Copying files: does Windows write to disk if files are identical?
I have a directory with a lot of books in PDF format (around 2GB in size).
While reading I often leave notes and annotations in the files. Occasionally I make a backup on an external hard drive. Since I do not remember which files have been…
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Why do I lose clipboard data after copying a file?
Wondering why I lose clipboard data when copying a file. After selecting a string of text and copying it to the clipboard this copied text data is somehow lost if I select a file and copy it in Windows Explorer before pasting the text somewhere.
For…
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Can original file get corrupted during copying?
I was copying music from my computer to a phone using usb-c cable, and because of stupid reasons, the copying process failed.
(In short, turns out a new phone requires some dancing around bonfire for the file transfer to work).
First 4 songs copied…
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PC to phone file transfer speed
I have a OnePlus 10 Pro device with USB Type C 3.1 (according to gsmarena).
I am trying to transfer huge files from it to my pc using the USB cable, but the speed is only 45MB/s which is the max speed of USB 2.0 as I know (My pc also has USB 3 and…
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Why can't I copy from nano to clipboard?
Why does nano not support simple Ctrl + C into clipboard? I'm using it with gnome-terminator on Linux Mint and just want to copy a few lines from my .bashrc into a text editor. When I mark a text passage, right-clicking on it doesn't work, I need to…
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How to copy text from the chat window in the Zoom meetings desktop client?
Until recently, it was trivial to copy text in the chat window in Zoom meetings within the Zoom desktop application: you simply selected the desired text and used the standard keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+C in Windows) to copy the text.
Suddenly, this…
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Why website copy tools like Cyotek WebCopy and HTTrack cannot find files that search engines like Google can?
I would like to keep the target website private, but here are some details:
It's a personal (as in single-author) public documentation / portfolio / blog sort of website
It seems to be hosted using Apache
The contents are static as far as I can…
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Copying files of Windows partition using rsync gives readlink_stat(...) Input/output error (5)
I want to copy all files of a Windows 10 system partition (NTFS) to another partition (NTFS).
I am using rsync under Ubuntu like this:
sudo rsync -axHAWXS --numeric-ids /media/windows /mnt/windows-backup
The problem is that several thousand files…
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autoit create a batch that sends ' type o.txt | clip ' not working
i spent hours on documentation and forums to try and figure this out.
the code runs without an error but the batch script doesn't get executed.
i spared the reader the #include<*> part because it's quite verbose.
oToClip()
Func oToClip()
Local…
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How can I find out what "undo copy" will undo? I don't remember
Yesterday I seem to have copied something and put my laptop to sleep. Now this morning I get the option on every right click (I mean in Windows Explorer and on the desktop) to "Undo Copy", but I don't remember what I had copied and don't know what…
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Ansible awx could`t gain access to script with copy: , script: and template: modules
I'm trying to write an Ansible playbook which will take a bash-script, stored on the same virtual machine, transfer this script to another virtual machine and then execute it. I've played this script on Ansible AWX and I've modified this script many…
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Scheduled robocopy in PowerShell from WebDAV shares not work with IIS share but with Nginx share
Please, help with my WebDAVs scheduled copy. I have two WebDAVs, one on Debian11/Nginx, the other on WindowsServer2019/IIS. I want to make a scheduled backup copy from both on my Windows 11. Fragment from PowerShell script:
$NetworkPaths =…
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How to batch copy "date modified" from files in directory to other files with identical names (but compressed) in another directory?
I have been compressing my 500++ MP4 videos from 2 years ago with Handbrake, however, as the compressed files are registered as new files, they do not retain their original metadata attributes (date modified, date created, etc).
I'd like to batch…
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Batch copy file with current date in file name
How to copy files from one directory to another, whose names contain current date, and so the names change daily.
Example:
File name: Test_14042021.txt
Date today: 14/04/2021 // DDMMYYYY
I tried this, but it didn't work:
copy…
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Copy files except when destination modified in last x days
I think what I am trying to do is simple, but I can't get the robocopy settings right, as I am trying to copy files from src to dest, over-writing files in dest if they already exist, except if modified in the past 7 days.
/minage:7 seems to not…
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