Questions regarding files and folders can be tagged with this. Examples include questions about special files, hidden files, their folder counterparts, and etc. This is not a tag for shared folders, file sharing, and the like.
Questions tagged [files-folders]
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Why do the "<" and ">" characters seem to corrupt Windows folders?
I was watching FlyTech's video, and when he made a pair illegal folders (one named "<" and the other named ">"), it made Windows think the folder containing them was corrupted. This behavior did not appear to occur for any of the other folders with…
inyourface3445
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How to get which folders are currently open in explorer?
The folders which are open are shown in taskmanager. Perhaps there is a way to access this information with batch or powershell or third party command-line?
I have also enabled the Restore previous folder windows at logon option...
So I wonder…
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What is the ModifiableWindowsApps folder and can I delete it?
I noticed a folder ModifiableWindowsApps inside the "Program Files" folder. What's odd is that this folder appeared on two of my non-primary drives, that is, drives other than C (where windows is installed and which has the normal "Program Files"…
User
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How to restart explorer without losing open windows?
When I have to restart explorer.exe, usually I have many folders open, which get closed in the process. So is there a way to reopen these folders automatically after restarting explorer?
goldnick7
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Alternative symbol for dot/period/full stop that will work at the end of a folder name?
I'm looking for an alternative period sign that will work at the end of a folder name.
It's not super important, but in my music organizing there is an album title that is stylized with a period at the end and it can't show this in Windows. This…
PJS1987
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What do icons mean on top right of a directory in Nautilus?
In Nautilus there is a directory that has an 'emblem' on its top right corner:
What is this icon? What does it mean? And more importantly: How to make it go away?
Renaming the file removes the icon, but renaming it back also brings the icon…
LeoColman
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Where does Windows 10 store the last visited files, recent folders, and frequent folders?
It seems there are more than one places where the visited files and folders are stored on windows 10.
This one I know, the recent-folder: C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent
You find shortcuts to the last visited files and…
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How does Notepad++ understands "last used directory" term?
For the term of "last used directory" in Notepad++ I have these questions:
What is the exact meaning of in?
Exactly which directory will be taken as that each time?
When exactly Notepad++ changes this and to what value it sets this?
Or, please,…
trejder
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Strange behaviour on /deny DE,W with icacls
I have the following scenario where I (admin) applied the (DE,W) deny permissions to the following folder test_folder for test_user who already has inherited modify permissions from parent folder:
B:\>icacls test_folder
test_folder …
kiwidude89
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How do I sort folders by most recently added files in Windows?
I use the sort by Date Modified a lot, but this is absolutely useless for folders as it always defaults to when the folder itself was created, not when new files are added to said folder. I need a way to sort all my folders by their most recently…
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Some folders and/or files on external HDD are accessible on Linux but not on macOS and Windows
I have saved some videos on an external NTFS drive that my Linux system can see just fine.
When trying to use a macOS for the same purpose a folder I was looking for was simply missing. I didn’t have a Linux computer with me at the time so I tried…
cipricus
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Script to swap two words in folder name
At work I've got a Windows directory housing about a thousand folders named
Name, Surname
and need these to be named
Surname, Name
I've done some searching here and on StackEx and haven't found anything that's exactly this with the comma, so I'm…
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How can I make new subfolders created in a directory inherit the parent folder's sort type as default (such as "date modified")?
So I have a folder within which new folders containing images are frequently created. These images are frequently updated, and I prefer to set them to sort by "date modified" so the most recently changed images are on top.
The trouble is, every time…
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Loading of documents in Windows Explorer takes long time
Recently, my Windows Explorer is really slow whereby a green loading bar is visible for a long time.
I tried multiple options such as:
a refresh via the task manager
rebuilding index
clear explorer history (+launching folder windows in a separate…
Foeke Boersma
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Get FileZilla to ignore remote folders and just download all files in the hierarchy to one local folder
How can I get FileZilla to ignore folders and just show the files in the hierarchy?
I want to be able to download all the files in a complex hierarchy of folders (specifically, the Uploads of a Wordpress site) but without the hierarchy. I.e. I want…
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