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How can I efficiently recover a permanently deleted folder at once?
There was a folder on my hard drive that I want to recover after I deleted it. How can I restore an entire folder from the file system?
I have tried some tools to recover deleted files listed in ...
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Windows 10 "Enable NTFS long paths policy" option missing
For some time, Microsoft has supported an option to remove the limit of 260 symbols for NTFS file name length.
The web is full of articles, describing what should be done.
Hit the Windows key, type ...
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Hide partition from Windows 10 to prevent hybrid shutdown issues in Linux
I have a dual boot machine (Windows 10 and Arch Linux), with an NTFS partition that is only used by the Arch.
Unfortunately, after shutting Windows 10 down normally, Arch won't mount that partition ...
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Windows 10 limits the file names
Windows 10 is killing me. I want to write some file names with more than 80 characters. I have a folder path like that: C:\Users\MyUser\Documents\Formations\Maitriser les outils vectoriels d ...
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How to determine the actual size on disk for a folder in Windows
I am either confused as to how Windows calculates the Size on disk value in the properties of a folder, or it is incorrect.
The cluster size on my drive is 4096 byes.
I've created a folder called ...
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Cannot mount NTFS partitions because of Windows 10?
I have a multi-boot computer, one of the partitions is taken by Windows 10 technical preview and another one is also ntfs.
Booting in an Ubuntu-eOS system I get this errors when trying to mount these ...
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how to set automatic NTFS LZX compression on new files
I know it is possible to compress files on the commandline with LZX:
COMPACT /C /S:E:\Backup /EXE:LZX
But i would like to do that BEFORE the files gets written on the disk.
If i enable compression ...
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Can't delete folder (in Windows 10) that contains special character [duplicate]
I have run into something that looks like a bug in Windows.
I have extracted a RAR archive onto my PC and the extracted folders cannot be deleted by any means!
My OS's language is English with some ...
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How does OneDrive make its folder not functional for older Windows versions?
After the Fall 2017 Creators Update for Windows 10 OneDrive folder can not be accessed using prior Windows versions. This oddity is described at the official site:
If you have installed the Fall ...
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What do new Windows 8/10 attributes mean: No scrub file (X), Integrity (V), Pinned (P), Unpinned (U)
I just opened help for ATTRIB command on Windows 10.0.15063, and found out that there are new attributes I didn't know about.
>attrib /?
Displays or changes file attributes.
ATTRIB [+R | -R] [+A |...
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How do I format an internal hard drive to exFAT in Windows 10?
I have an internal hard drive that I use as storage where I dump the stuff I need backed up. I want to format it to exFAT instead of NTFS so that it doesn't have to deal with permissions. The problem ...
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Message "file too large for recycle bin" on any file on external HDD Win 10
On my external only-files (no Windows) NTFS 2TB HDD Win 10 raises a "file too large for recycle bin" message on any file I delete.
I formatted the HDD with the onboard Windows partition tool and the ...
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Extracting (or copying) files to a compressed NTFS folder makes Windows report the disk is full when it's not
I've been trying to extract a series of compressed files - total ~50GiB (uncompressed) - to a hard disk with about 55GiB of free space.
Because this is a slow hard drive and with limited capacity, ...
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Is it possible to change NTFS permissions on a big tree faster?
Is there any way to change permissions for a huge tree faster in Windows?
Is it really necessary to wait hours to just change an owner?
I was thinking that such thing as "inheritance" was invented ...
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File Access Time is not getting modified in File explorer
I am trying to figure out the last access time for file in Windows if user read the file. I know that to improve the performance of NTFS filesystem in Windows vista and above the last access times of ...
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