file management

Tried to repair Windows 11 from within ISO mount - so I do not lose any apps and data. I get a message - Your files, apps and settings cannot be kept because your current version of windows is might be installed in an unsupported directory or you're trying to install an older version of...

What is the best way to read a files owner and permissions, create a new file then apply those permissions without using the subprocess method or command line icacls etc.

I bought Macrium reflect a year ago and didn't realize support stopped after the year. I can still use it though for life. I'm having trouble reading an image file of Macrium particularly in the documents part where I want to copy and paste something to my current operating system. I seem to be...

I am trying to download an updated version of a program that I use frequently. When I click the download, I get a message that says "Google Drive cannot scan the file because it is too large". I can select "download anyway", but the resulting file is garbage. ????? I don't have Google Drive...

I recently got myself a new computer running Windows 11 rather than 10. Moving my files across I noticed that the folder images I used to distinguish my different folders (and tell me visually what's in them) are largely hidden away by the [non-transparent bits of the] yellow folder icons in...

Hello, In my ONEDRIVE happen something that i don't understand. I didn't customize anything. Only copy ma DATA to backup it. But he always cretate without my intervention a file with several names, like Dokumente, i delete it and he create another named Documenti, end so on. Why this happen...

Hi Everybody, re: Windows 11 (version 23H2 build 22631.3296) All of my folder views show each item with a Refresh or Recycle symbol. What does that symbol mean? If it's unimportant, can I eliminate it altogether?

For some reason, the Quick Access list of folders in File Explorer recently included an elastic list of folders from my Music library. If I remove one, it adds the next one in the alphabet. How do I remove all these Music folders from Explorer?

Which tools can recover fragmented files from a partially overwritten NTFS partition? A friend of mine used a clone drive utility without knowing the implications. It looks like he selected the wrong target drive, and, more importantly, he did not unplug unused devices before using such a...

I use an external Drive to store my files. I frequently get diconnected (usually on Windows updates) and then it takes days to reconnect. I use two computers and both access the ext Drive wirelessly, and usually they can both connect.

Hello folks, I have three Dell Latitude laptops, is bluetooth files to and from each. On two of them, whenever I click "send a file", select the computer to be sent to and then click "browse", it opens up the folder that I last used when sending a file, on the other one, it always opens up "this...

hey :-) i use to mark file with "#" or "^" as a prefix. is there any tool that let me add a mark in one click from the context menu?

I did a file restore from a backup program (Retrospect), but I cannot seem to be able to do anything with the folder it created, even delete it. The folder icon is grayed out..? I do have permissions on it, and am the owner, and also have admin privileges. Opening a cmd prompt as admin, and...

Hello Steam or I have messed up my SSD Drive. I have steam installed on 2 drives and after installing a new game, steam put it on the wrong drive somehow. After moving a folder using cut&paste suddenly i have no disc space left. The original Folder that was moved from C to C is gone, but i have...

Hi I made this batch code, to move all subfolders from "C:\1" to a new created folder inside folder "C:\2" @echo off set "sourceDir=C:\1" set "destinationDir=C:\2" set "newFolderName=NewSubfolder" mkdir "%destinationDir%\%newFolderName%" 2nul for /D %%I in ("%sourceDir%\*") do (...

Is this possible?

I was unable to add files to one specific folder on a Blu-ray disc. Later, there was a zero-byte file dated 1974-07-25 that would result in error 0x80070570 when trying to rename it in Windows Explorer. Trying to open it with Notepad or through the "type" command inside CMD results in an error...

I had to downgrade to Win 10. Unexpectedly, there was a massive Windows.Old directory created, and it's proving difficult to delete all of it. Although this is my own home PC and I'm the sole user, when I try to delete certain directories or files, I get Access Denied - you need to provide...

Dear Anyone. OK, I know I should know the answer to this but I don't.... I've only got a small C drive. Downloaded from cloud storage a big .RAR that I knew was too big for C, so I had an external drive D: and downloaded it to that. Tried unzipping it (OK - unRARing it!), had 300gig spare on...

I'll explain the situation. OneDrive had files and folders which were present from a previous Windows 11 installation ('Documents' libraries). Old 'Documents' and old 'Photos' were kept so that I could go through them over a period of time, removing any old files I did not need. Once I...