file management

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...

Hello, first post here... Is it possible to run Windows 10's Explorer in Windows 11 ? I really don't like the new Explorer in Windows 11...

So basically I need to search my PC for videos taken (date created/date taken) in 2014 & 2015. I’ve uploaded all my phones videos throughout the years and I completely forgot where I stashed each years worth of videos. Is there a way to search (Local Disk C,D, etc..) for something like .MP4...

I need a faster to way to copy searched folders from an Android device to Windows 11 PC. Right now I am dragging and dropping from the search results one at a time. I wish the searched files could be copied one after the other automatically.

I am trying to make a backup on a one-terabyte USB Drive. When I try to make a file history backup it will appear fine for about 5 minutes. Then it shows an error saying that a file on the drive is corrupted and cannot be read. After I got this message I checked the drive for corruption. I find...

Is it the same for other people? Is it Windows 10 that is like this?

Hi, This is my first day with Windows 11 and I'm already having a lot of trouble with a few niche things that are pretty important to my workflow. First: if I open the Photos app, for example, the first window opens where I want it to, but any subsequent photos I open while the first is open...

on my hard drive, I have three JOB files that have long numerical sequences after them. Each takes up 64 gigabytes on my hard drive. how do I reclaim that space? I have consulted AI and got nothing useful.

Hi - im new to windows 11. I need to attach files alot to emails. In previous windows this was easy, file attach - then the list was alphabetical. In windows 11 the list is sorted by some sort of date grouping today, yesterday, earlier in the week, etc... It makes finding a named file almost...