Questions tagged [move]
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Moving or copying a Thunderbird profile to the same version fails
Recently, I needed to import a saved Mozilla Thunderbird profile from a drive image made the day before. It should have been simple -- the newly-installed email client was the same version as that in ...
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How to move one file from a list and rename it?
I generate from time to time, in a directory, one file such as pi-hole-srv-teleporter_2024-08-27_13-59-16.tar.gz. But sometimes there are two or more following the same naming template (with different ...
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move copies instead of moves
for /f "tokens=*" %%i in (%file_list%) DO (move "%src_folder%\%%i" "%dst_folder%")
This resulted in copy instead of move.
I need to remove the files from the source ...
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Any way to do a Batch file move operation only when the HDD is idle-ish?
I know how to check if a specific program is running like winrar which might indicate usage on drive d: but is there a better way to determine if a drive is relatively idle enough (via Batch or other ...
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Shortcut to move shape without connectors in Visio
In Visio, is there a shortcut key that will let me move shape without any connectors attached to it. As in, click and hold mouse button while pressing a key, drag the shape and leave the connectors in ...
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Windows 10: Moving a windows folder (A) to another folder (B) does not change folder's (A) date modified or date created
I have a Windows Folder A (containing some files/folders) with Date Created and Date Modified as 11/23/2023 05:26 p.m.
I have another Windows Folder B (containing some files/folders) with Date Created ...
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Move a given volume (size) of files
Need to move any given quantity of files from a given type (csv in example) from ./source to a ./target folder and that:
the total size of all files moved is below a given value SrcMax
files are ...
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How do I "mv */* ./" in a Windows command shell?
On a Windows machine, I've got about 50 subdirectories in the same directory, each with around 5 files in it. I want to get all 250-or-so files into one directory.
In a UNIX system, I'd just open a ...
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How to monitor and move files to different directories one by one and in sequence on Windows?
How to monitor when files are created and then move them to different directories one by one and in sequence on Windows?
For example, I have files in C:\Temp
File names are random like File545.tmp ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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:\...
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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 ...
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How To Move Picsart and Phonto Fonts To A New Phone [closed]
I have two apps on my phone (PicsArt & Phonto) that can handle fonts on images.
It took me a long time to install fonts on these apps, especially the non-English fonts.
My old phone was Samsung ...
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Move Complete Path in Windows
Using Windows 10 and File Explorer.
Is there a way to do this that's optimal?
I want to move files from one folder to another, but I also want to recreate the folder architecture from the source that ...
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Linux how to move n files out of nested subodirectories from a directory to another one
I have a directory invasive/ which contains 60000 files. I want to move only 1000 files out of nested sub-directories from invasive/ to invasive2/
I tried to do the following:
find invasive/ -type f -...
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Thunderbird: Mark all messages inside selected Folder(s) Unread
Its possible to mark all messages as read in selected folder(s). It is useful for archival purpose.
But is it also possible to mark all messages of selected folder(s) as unread? It is useful for ...
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Undoing Move Led to Delete
I am hoping someone can help me understand what happened in Windows 10. I have two folders, folder A and folder B. I did a move of files using Ctnl-X, Cntl-V, from A to B. I accidentally had selected ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Perfect move command
Is there a command in CMD/PowerShell to perform a "perfect" cut-paste, where the command only copy file to target when he can delete the source?
Because all my attempts with robocopy and ...
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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:\<Source Folder Path>"
set "destination=D:\<Destination ...
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for command does not allow move or xcopy command to move/copy the folder only the contents
have looked on this forum for several examples, started off with xcopy ( not allowing wildcards in the folder name ), wanted to pipe the dir command to either xopy or move but require the dir ...
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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 ...
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move folders recursively using find
Please see the below issue. Actually I wanted to move only 20022021 folder (which cotains subdir and files) to the destination, But its moving both the directories.
nasa:/# find /tmp/source -mindepth ...
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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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Unexpected error 0x8007000D "The data is invalid" when moving or renaming folders in Windows 7
A few weeks ago I began seeing this error every time I try to rename or move a folder in Windows 7 SP1:
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Things I've already tried to resolve this:
Remove ALL Explorer addins and shell extensions, ...
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My default ProgramData path is set to Drive F instead of C (system) for certain programs. How do change it back to normal?
Last year I accidentally moved ProgramData folder to Drive F from C. Realizing that I instantly moved it back and things were going normally until it finally caught up to me.
Because of some programs ...
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How to move files from subdirectories that have the same directory name to its relative upper/parent directory? [closed]
So, I have a directory structure like this:
parent/
└── sub1
| └── sub1.1
| | └── source
| | └── something1
| | └── something2
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| └── sub1.2
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move folders up to root
I have a thousand folders on a drive that each have a folder in them (and files in that folder). that second level folder, naming is all over the map. sample:
drive
level 1 folder A
level 2 folder ...
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Outlook 2016, Windows 10, Outlook email in Explorer
Trying to do this in Outlook Email session on Explorer: but also I have the Application Outlook on Desktop. Really unfamiliar with how to operate the App, so please be specific in steps if it can be ...
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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:\) ...
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Is there a way to assign my computer multiple locations to move multiple files?
My current issue is that when transferring photos and videos to my external hard drive, each transfer takes quite a while, and I must wait for the transfer to complete before I can transfer another ...
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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 ...
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powershell move masterfolder items to destinationfolder matching filename
i have a masterfolder with 1000 files, they are reviewed. I have the same older files in a destination folder spreaded out in 100's of subfolders.
I need to move the files from the masterfolder to ...
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Move (NOT COPY) files & folders on mapped network drive using batch
I am trying to move folder and files from one location to another on the same mapped network drive.
I have used ROBOCOPY and XCOPY. However, they copy and then delete the files. My files can be over ...
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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 ...
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Can Gparted make a jump move of a partition?
There is a similar question: GParted moving partition from beginning of disk to the end of a disk?
I know I can move a partition left / right if there is a free space to the left or to the right of a ...
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