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How to Solve the Issue between Google Drive sync and Windows Security ransomware protection feature?
New Windows has a feature called Ransomware Protection in Windows Settings >> Windows Security.
I use this feature to protect the folder of Google Drive.
However, it doesn't go well. At the ...
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Minio mc sync deletes target before syncing updates
I'm trying to use the MinIO mc mirror command to regularly sync from a bucket to a file system. I've read the documentation but there is no mention of atomically replacing files on a new sync:
https://...
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How to move files from an Android Phone (Pixel) to a Windows PC?
I'm having a lot of problems with this, and not found any kind of resolution in the last 2 years.
I would simply like to get the contents of an entire folder on my Pixel 7 Pro and move them to my ...
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Issues with unlinking OneDrive account from folders - alphanumeric keys in registry
I did a clean install of Windows 11. I didn't experience this issue before since I would do an "offline" setup of Windows without an account login, but it's a pain to do this with Windows 11....
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Add a specific folder to OneDrive, outside of "My Documents" [duplicate]
I know the following dialog box in the OneDrive settings.
But how can I add an arbitrary folder to OneDrive sync, which is outside of "My Documents", "My Music", "My Pictures&...
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Difference between /D and /J options for mklink command when syncing folders to OneDrive
I want to sync a large folder on my Windows machine to OneDrive without duplicating it on my local drive. I have read two tutorials suggesting using the mklink command to create a link between the ...
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ffmpeg -vsync deprecated, use -fps_mode
I used to use -vsync -1 to Auto Sync a Audio and Video input stream using the -copy switch as they would get out of sync at times and sometimes not so can't specify any seconds for a delay setting but ...
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Remote desktop audio lag
Why when using remote desktop, when playing a video, my keyboard executions are almost perfectly in sync with the image on the screen, but the there is like a 1 second audio delay and sometimes 2 ...
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How to back up Documents with OneDrive, while also using another cloud service?
I use OneDrive for Business on Windows 11 and I want to back up the Documents folder on my harddrive to OneDrive.
In the OneDrive settings I go to "Sync and backup > Manage backup". Here, ...
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Dropbox synch, 1 file missing, how identify the file?
I just synched Drobox between my old Windows 10 laptop (the source) and my new Window 11 desktop (the target). I then did a Windows Properties on the Dropbox folder on both machines.
On the source:
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Sync shared folder in Onedrive to external/guest Azure users
I'm looking for a way to synchronise a shared folder on OneDrive to a guest user in our company on Azure.
Basically, we created an external guest user in Azure and then shared a OneDrive folder to him....
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Does Windows 11 synchronise installed apps so that you can restore system or switch to a new PC quickly?
I'm trying to keep everything in sync principally through the Microsoft account, including To Do tasks, Windows settings and more so that I don't have to set up everything again everytime I do a ...
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how to exclude specific file from onedirve syncing
I know how to exclude files with specific extensions, but files that doesn't have them how to exclude them by exact filename?
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One Google Drive Account, Multiple Windows Users
There are two similar questions to this one that I can find: here and here. I am in this situation, and wondering if anything has changed in 9 years: I want one (1) (count 'em one) Google Drive ...
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How would I keep a live database directory atomically synchronized with other local disks on Windows 10?
I run PostgreSQL 14.1 on Windows 10 (Pro). The computer has multiple internal storage disks. The PostgreSQL "data directory" is set to C:\whatever\PGDB.
I do make full backups daily, but ...
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windows sync center error "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process."
When i press offline available on a folder on LAN then its start syncing but nothing syncs and gives error for each file in folder "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by ...
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stop Sync between laptop and pc
I have a problem between my laptop and pc because the applications on the background are the same, idk how to turn this off even though I turned off the sync option in windows itself.
For example, if ...
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How to Sync My Windows Server time to user
We are using a Windows Server 2012 R2 in our Company, and we have active directory with 100+ users. but we are facing a issue, When our user restart their computers, their computers aren't syncing ...
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Best way to sync windows services between two servers?
I'm wanting to bring an older company server back in the deployment loop and was looking at the Robocopy cmd. So of course it can easily sync files and all that good stuff, but I'm wondering if ...
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is there a way to sort of sync the contents within 2 or more folders to another folder?
So, while I have found methods that could be used to sync one folder to another singular folder, I have no found a method that could be used to reliably sync the contents of multiple folders to a ...
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How to sync OneDrive even when I'm signed-out from the computer?
I work on a server computer and have setup OneDrive. Sync is working fine.
The folder into which the files get synced is shared on the network.
When I sign-out from my computer, the OneDrive sync ...
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Google Drive: is it possible to restore the way how the service worked in the past, using the folder instead of virtual partition?
I use Windows 10 X64 Pro and I pay the annual fee for the 2TB Google Drive service as a private.
Originally, Google Drive service worked using a simple folder on a local drive where put all the stuff ...
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Copy, mirror or synchronize a directory structure -- but only the file names, without content
Say I have a huge directory structure of movie files.
For analysis of that structure, I want to copy or synchronize the entire directory structure, i.e. folders and files.
However, I don't want to ...
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Windows Time Sync issues cmd.exe & svchost running
I have a strange issue that is happening with our time syncing error for a computer at work.
Randomly the PC changes time to a year,few minutes, hours back. Example: before the glitch it will be ...
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how to roll back OneDrive changes to Desktop, Document, and Pictures folders?
I have a Windows 10 laptop with Microsoft OneDrive installed however I haven't been using it until tonight when I did a Sign-in. OneDrive stepped me through a couple of prompts and then I realized ...
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How turn off Mendeley Desktop automatically syncing
Using the Mendeley Desktop Application, all references added to the library will be automatically 'synced', i.e. uploaded. How can I stop Mendeley's automatic synchronization?
User -> Preferences ...
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Map Google Drive to drive letter
Google Drive has recently updated the desktop file sync client from the old Backup and Sync to a new system. With the old program, I used net use at the Windows Command Prompt, e.g. net use r: "\...
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How can I add a folder that's on another drive to Dropbox?
My C drive is a NVME m.2 high speed drive and D drive is a pretty slow old drive. I have my Dropbox folder on D:\Dropbox. Normally I do my programming stuff on C:\projects, since C drive is fast and I ...
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Outlook 2016 stopped syncing IMAP folders. Sync only when INBOX folder is active
A few days ago I caught a glitch on MS Windows server - MS Outlook 2016 stopped correctly synchronizing mail via IMAP from a Linux server (Dovecot + Exim). The problem: i send a letter on my mailbox (...
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Upload files into GDrive then delete locally
Is there any settings in Gdrive windows Sync app, or any other third party app that allows auto uploading file to GDrive then delete the local file.
The idea behind the deleting is to protect the ...
