Questions regarding files and folders can be tagged with this. Examples include questions about special files, hidden files, their folder counterparts, and etc. This is not a tag for shared folders, file sharing, and the like.
Questions tagged [files-folders]
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Why do the "<" and ">" characters seem to corrupt Windows folders?
I was watching FlyTech's video, and when he made a pair illegal folders (one named "<" and the other named ">"), it made Windows think the folder containing them was corrupted. This behavior did not appear to occur for any of the other folders with…
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What is the ModifiableWindowsApps folder and can I delete it?
I noticed a folder ModifiableWindowsApps inside the "Program Files" folder. What's odd is that this folder appeared on two of my non-primary drives, that is, drives other than C (where windows is installed and which has the normal "Program Files"…
User
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How to get which folders are currently open in explorer?
The folders which are open are shown in taskmanager. Perhaps there is a way to access this information with batch or powershell or third party command-line?
I have also enabled the Restore previous folder windows at logon option...
So I wonder…
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How does Notepad++ understands "last used directory" term?
For the term of "last used directory" in Notepad++ I have these questions:
What is the exact meaning of in?
Exactly which directory will be taken as that each time?
When exactly Notepad++ changes this and to what value it sets this?
Or, please,…
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How to restart explorer without losing open windows?
When I have to restart explorer.exe, usually I have many folders open, which get closed in the process. So is there a way to reopen these folders automatically after restarting explorer?
goldnick7
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Alternative symbol for dot/period/full stop that will work at the end of a folder name?
I'm looking for an alternative period sign that will work at the end of a folder name.
It's not super important, but in my music organizing there is an album title that is stylized with a period at the end and it can't show this in Windows. This…
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Some folders and/or files on external HDD are accessible on Linux but not on macOS and Windows
I have saved some videos on an external NTFS drive that my Linux system can see just fine.
When trying to use a macOS for the same purpose a folder I was looking for was simply missing. I didn’t have a Linux computer with me at the time so I tried…
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Where does Windows 10 store the last visited files, recent folders, and frequent folders?
It seems there are more than one places where the visited files and folders are stored on windows 10.
This one I know, the recent-folder: C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent
You find shortcuts to the last visited files and…
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How can I make new subfolders created in a directory inherit the parent folder's sort type as default (such as "date modified")?
So I have a folder within which new folders containing images are frequently created. These images are frequently updated, and I prefer to set them to sort by "date modified" so the most recently changed images are on top.
The trouble is, every time…
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How can I copy and paste files within the File Explorer using ftp?
The Windows File Explorer lets me define a folder as a ftp location and I'm able to copy files into and out of the folders, but I'm not able to move files within the folder.
e.g. If I want to move a file in the ftp folder into another ftp folder on…
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Would moving files across folders and renaming folders many times affect the performance & speed of a hard drive?
To organize digital content, I move around files and folders many times (within the same external hard drive), as well as rename folders too. Would this affect the performance specially speed of the hard drive?
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Why folder appear as binary file on external hard drive?
I have an old external hard drive, some of the folders appear as "binary" work files and can't be opened (some other folders do not have problem).
The HD:
Filesystem type: msdos
Concerned folder appear as:
Type: Binary…
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How to create a duplicate of a folder such that they update together?
Why there is an issue?:
I have a habit of organising my folder/files in the file explorer of Windows 10. I don't have the best-organised structure, and thus there is a need that if I update (by adding a file in it) a folder My Pics at some path say…
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How to delete folders created by TexStudio and that won't delete?
I am new to Latex, using TexStudio on Windows 10. I did something unexpected after typing the command to include a file and I had not closed the expression yet, I clicked "Yes" when TexStudio asked if it should create the non existing file. I was…
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moving all files from sub-subfolders to the main subfolder inside the parent directory
Say I have a file system like:
folder 1
- subfolder
-sub-subfolder 1
-file 1
-file 2
-file 3
-sub-subfolder 2
-file 4
-file 5
-file 6
folder 2
- subfolder
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