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My office pals are constantly creating lenghy file names and folders that surpass windows limits, which is causing problems when I perform or restore backups. Is there a way to just stop windows from letting a user write or copy a file which exceeds the limits imposed by the OS itself?. I´ve...

I hope I'm in the right place. A while back I was copying some family files over from some (a few ancient, like 1990s) hard drives on my Ubuntu rig over to a new external 1TB NTFS HD formatted in Windows 8, nothing special. I was using the Ubuntu rig cause a few of them wouldn't initialize in...

Hi I have a folder with around 40,000 jpg images, family photos etc. I spend my spare time renaming the images, so for instance an original photo named P01234567 might become P01234567-andy-les-jane, thus showing the names of people actually in the photo. This is great since I can then search...

Can anyone tell me what causes a file name to duplicate and appear with the following "name" Master DB_1_21_15@9b1e95f9bff5463d87789d6efbbe4852 I have a file that is called Master DB_1_21_15 (excel file) It resides on my desktop computer in my Google Drive folder The date is the last time I...

When your copying a data CD or folder or whatever, when your copying anything windows should check to see if the file names are going to be too long BEFORE it copies or movies, to stop things from being so difficult. Personally, I backup large amounts of data sorted into many folders and...

Hello How can I see the file name extensions on win7? I only see the file name!

When I turn on the feature, "Always search file names and contents" my C drive completely fills all available disk space after doing a search. What's going on and how do I remedy this?

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i had 200 file arranged in a serial order i want to rename them by deleting the first 2 character of every file name how can i do it??

I am using WIN 7 Ultimate and have a folder (FOLDER-A) containing about 160 .HTM documents and their corresponding FILES folders from documents I have downloaded from the internet. I am trying to sort these by name within the containing folder (FOLDER-A) so that each .HTM document appears next...

Years back, there was this great computer program called Music Match Juke Box. It could rip CDs, name the files according to a selected protocol, play your pmusic as aserial playlist or random assortment and it could burn Audio CDs and WMA or MP3 CDs with voulme leveling. I bought a copy with...

I am trying to control which thumbnails display on folder icons in my Pictures library. Right now, all of the folder icons show thumbnails of 2 pictures. There seems to be no rhyme or reason as to which 2 pictures are chosen (obviously that is not true, it just seems that way). I assumed that...

Hi, my laptop wouldn't access the operating system yesterday when turning it on & only worked after opening it up & pushing the harddrive in. On starting it up it forced me to access some samsung recovery options so I did that. Now the desktop appears & the files appear on my desktop but no...

Just upgraded to Windows 8 and I'm having an issue I never had in Windows 7. Whenever somebody sends me an archive (.zip, .rar, etc.) that contains file names that are in Japanese, they always appear garbled (文字化け). 1. I am using Outlook 2010 2. This happens through both WinRAR and Windows'...

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I've found a file with the file name "^.~" (as in file name "^" and file extension "~") in my Win7 C: root directory. It's just my luck that searching for this in any search engine brings up no results, so I can't get an answer that way. From what I can tell, the file wasn't already there when...

I keep getting a "need permission from Trusted installer" or "system' error. Who is this guy and where do I find him? Also have some Java style "file name too long for recycle bin errors". I'd like to reclaim this wasted hard drive space after a non-eventful Win 8 install. Thanks in advance.

I was going to upgrade today, but before it go going it (install program :tickled_pink:) asked me to change the name of the "User" folder or file name. I'm assuming this is because I set up Win 7 so that the "User" folder was located on my "D: drive". I would like to keep my system in this...

I try to search them but nothing is coming up and then I saved/created again but the computer tells me "another file with that name already existed..." but I don't seem them anywhere in the folder. What is happening?