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    Extracting components of long file names into custom metadata properties

    Good day, I am an ECM Consultant for Datacentrix in South Africa. I have a migration-related question. I hope you can assist. The issue is this: 1. The source system is a Windows shared drive 2. The target system is a document management solution 3. In the source system, the file names are very...
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    Windows 10 Tmp folder

    I have a bunch of files in a tmp folder from 2019. Is it ok to dump them? One site (MSN) said ok but just double-checking. Thanks.
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    Windows 10 Windows 10 (latest) updates ate up my disk space?

    Hi all, I'm new to the forum. Basically I register mainly to ask this question. I have a older laptop with an older SSD where I installed Windows 10 (Version 21H1, OS Build 19043.1348) on drive C with the diligently maintained 10-12 Gb of free disk space. I rarely install anything new because I...
  4. Windows 10 New Notebook Space Issues

    I just purchased an HP laptop with a 128 GB M.2 SSD Hard Drive. Besides the original setup and adding some basic programs, I've done very little in a week. But my C: Drive has already used 42% (only 69GB free) A further disk analysis shows that, of the total used, Windows has used 30%...
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    Windows 7 How can i remove all duplicate transferred files????

    I have duplicate transferred files from another computer , along with duplicate data from my WM6.5 phone and duplicate photos from my camera my hard drive. I am running Windows 7, and looking for a way to compile, sort out the many duplicate files I have created over time, by making numerous...
  6. Windows 7 corrupt file hunter / killer

    hi all! If you're like me, sometimes corrupt files make navigating a folder a huge headache. I'm trying to organize thousands of files, and amalgamate all files onto one hard drive. What I would like, is some app, or method, that tracks down potential problem files, and deletes them or...
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    Windows 7 Redundant Office 2007 Help Files

    I was tidying up my HDD today, and found two different sets of MS Office 2007 help file directories with 4gb of identical content in each. I ran Windiff(x64) on both dirs; they were completely identical. The directories were located here: "C:\Documents and Settings\All...
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    Windows 7 Windows old on Wim7

    Trying to do a back up to a portable HD 250 GB I'm told insufficent room! Looking at Windows I see files Windows Old that is 63 GB and Windows Old 000 that is 36 GB in size - can someone enlighten me on these, what they are they for? are they necessary? and can they be got rid of? :confused: