Questions tagged [move]

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Can I move the C:\Users folder to D:\ drive?

Basically, the problem goes like this: I own a Windows 10 PC with 32 GB EMMC storage which caters to my need of sending mails, doing basic typing etc. There is a slot to insert a MicroSD card (D:\) and I use a 128GB card in there to store files. I…
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How to affect only directories with Move-Item in PowerShell?

I am flattening a directory and I want to move items that are directories, but leave files untouched. Unfortunately, there is no distinct pattern that can be wildcard matched between the directories and the files. I want to know if it is possible to…
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Getting "Access is denied" when moving a folder to a symlink which is pointing to another drive

I have a drive named D and a drive named E. I created a folder named "test" in drive D and a folder named "destination" in drive E using the mkdir command. Then in D I created a symlink using the following command: mklink /D D:\source…
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How can I "fix" my transmission-gtk state after having moved the download directory?

Suppose you use the transmission-gtk BitTorrent client (v2.94) on a Linux system to seed some files, e.g. Linux distribution ISOs and LibreOffice versions. Suppose that the basic "Save To Location" is: /path1/torrents and the incomplete torrents…
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How to move files from subdirectories that have the same directory name to its relative upper/parent directory?

So, I have a directory structure like this: parent/ └── sub1 | └── sub1.1 | | └── source | | └── something1 | | └── something2 | | | └── sub1.2 | └── source | └── something3 | └──…
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Can i move samba from device to another?

I downloaded the samba on my operating system (Oracle Linux 8), I want to copy it to another device that have the same operating system but without internet connection. Can I do that? if i can how to do that?
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Automatically move a specified file to another location

I am currently using the following bat code to move my files from one folder to another @echo off set X=0 set "source=C:\" set "destination=D:\" robocopy "%source%" "%destination%" /mov /minage:%X% exit…
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How do I move Outlook emails to document folders and retain dates?

I want to move some of my old outlook emails from outlook to my C Drive folders retaining the same date created, emailed, sent etc properties. How can I do this?
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Check and replace file same name only

Example: Folder 1 has A to Z file name Folder 2 has only V to Z file name I want to move then replace file in Folder 2 only with same name from file in Folder 1. is there a cmd/script...etc to do this?
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Can I jump move the Microsoft reserved partition in Gparted?

There is similar question about moving msr, but it asks about previous version of gparted which did not supported that: Move MSR partition? Now, I know I can move msr left and right without a problem. But in my case msr was laying in-between of two…
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VSCode window cannot be moved when the title bar is not reachable

Usual Windows applications will open the "Windows menu" an upper-leftmost menu for resizing/moving/closing the window, by typing Alt+Space, which is a lifesaver when the title bar is not accessible. VScode is using this keyboard shortcut to …
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Moving or copying single character folders names in windows explorer causes explorer crash

I have found a very specific bug in Windows in which folders whose names only have a single character cannot be copied/moved. If I have a folder named 'Q', and in explorer attempt to drag copy or move the folder to another location on the drive,…
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move folder from one thunderbird to another, not profile

I had to add a second profile to my Thunderbird and had to delete the original. Prior I backed it all up. Now I want to copy the previous folders to the new profile, but not copy the old profile. With Explorer I can see the backup files, can I copy…
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MOVE operation in a PS script has been failing for weeks; original files deleted but not written to new location. Are they recoverable?

We have a script that was supposed to move LOG files off a server onto a local repository. It turned out the author of the script added an apostrophe by accident in the destination: MOVE /y "C:\XXX\XXX\XXX\audit.*.log"…
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Batch create folders based on extension and move files into them

I have a directory structure that looks like this: Folder A A.PDF A_1.TIF A_2.TIF A_3.TIF Folder B B.PDF B_1.TIF B_2.TIF B_3.TIF Folder C C.PDF C_1.TIF C_2.TIF C_3.TIF What I want to be able to do is have it so a script sorts the PDFs…
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