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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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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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 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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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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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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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…
Mark Schultz
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batch file: copy the contents of one file to another file in different directories
I want to create a batch file to combine the contents of two text files:
c:\folder1\1.txt with c:\folder2\2.text and then, append it to another file c:\folder3\combine.txt
Where the batch file (copy.bat) is. The structure of the directory is as…
Mahsa Shafaei
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Using tmux copy mode just like vim
I'm trying make use of the copy mode of tmux to copy some part of text in one of my panes but I cannot really manage with it, spacebar is not working to select the text and I'm getting a bit lost.
Does somebody know how to set tmux to behave…
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strip android filenames of illegal characters when copying to windows
On my Android phone since years I use an app called 'Fastnote' for notetaking. The notes are automatically saved with a filename that corresponds to the first line of the file.
Such automatic saving is very convenient, but the result is that many of…
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Windows 10 copy command mistake
I tried the Windows 10 copy command from a command prompt as follows:
copy "c:\folderA" "d:\folderB"
Which resulted in folderB being a file, instead of a new folder with the contents of folderA. Is there any way for me to extract the contents of…
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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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logitech mouse shorts over rdp
I have a logitech g602 and i have created shortcuts on the mouse G-buttons for copy and paste.
I want to see if its possible for me to use the same shortcuts when im working on an RDP machine. I do a lot of copy pasting from local machine to rdp…
vick sarkisy
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rsync: can rsync adjust to the directory layout insteaed of transferring?
I have three systems, but only the target and a outdated mirror are on a fast link.
Master_SLOW:
On a super slow link. Contains a updated directory structure and files
OldMirror_FAST:
On a fast link - most files are bit by bit identical to…
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