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Can I move the C:\Users folder to D:\ drive?

Basically, the problem goes like this: I own a Windows 10 PC with 32 GB EMMC storage which caters to my need of sending mails, doing basic typing etc. There is a slot to insert a MicroSD card (D:\) and I use a 128GB card in there to store files. I…
user871532
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Windows 10: Moving a windows folder (A) to another folder (B) does not change folder's (A) date modified or date created

I have a Windows Folder A (containing some files/folders) with Date Created and Date Modified as 11/23/2023 05:26 p.m. I have another Windows Folder B (containing some files/folders) with Date Created and Modified as 11/27/2023 06:35 p.m. I moved…
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How to affect only directories with Move-Item in PowerShell?

I am flattening a directory and I want to move items that are directories, but leave files untouched. Unfortunately, there is no distinct pattern that can be wildcard matched between the directories and the files. I want to know if it is possible to…
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Getting "Access is denied" when moving a folder to a symlink which is pointing to another drive

I have a drive named D and a drive named E. I created a folder named "test" in drive D and a folder named "destination" in drive E using the mkdir command. Then in D I created a symlink using the following command: mklink /D D:\source…
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How can I "fix" my transmission-gtk state after having moved the download directory?

Suppose you use the transmission-gtk BitTorrent client (v2.94) on a Linux system to seed some files, e.g. Linux distribution ISOs and LibreOffice versions. Suppose that the basic "Save To Location" is: /path1/torrents and the incomplete torrents…
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Can I jump move the Microsoft reserved partition in Gparted?

There is similar question about moving msr, but it asks about previous version of gparted which did not supported that: Move MSR partition? Now, I know I can move msr left and right without a problem. But in my case msr was laying in-between of two…
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How to fix moved user account by mistake in Windows 10 Pro?

I was moving my User/name data for documents/music/etc. back from the D:\ drive to the OS drive (C:\User/name) and inadvertently seem to have moved the entire User name out of the OS tree (C:\ User\name) and into a top level position I am wondering…
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Moving or copying a Thunderbird profile to the same version fails

Recently, I needed to import a saved Mozilla Thunderbird profile from a drive image made the day before. It should have been simple -- the newly-installed email client was the same version as that in the image, v. 128.4.2 esr, the operating system…
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How do I move Outlook emails to document folders and retain dates?

I want to move some of my old outlook emails from outlook to my C Drive folders retaining the same date created, emailed, sent etc properties. How can I do this?
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How to move files from subdirectories that have the same directory name to its relative upper/parent directory?

So, I have a directory structure like this: parent/ └── sub1 | └── sub1.1 | | └── source | | └── something1 | | └── something2 | | | └── sub1.2 | └── source | └── something3 | └──…
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Find directories contatining mkv with 1 link

This slightly more advanced for me Im not sure its possible I would like to find directories with mkv files that have 1 link find . -type f -links 1 -print' Currently im using this to find the mkv file but i wish to add an exec command to move…
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Any way to do a Batch file move operation only when the HDD is idle-ish?

I know how to check if a specific program is running like winrar which might indicate usage on drive d: but is there a better way to determine if a drive is relatively idle enough (via Batch or other method, invoked from a Batch file) to start…
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How do I "mv */* ./" in a Windows command shell?

On a Windows machine, I've got about 50 subdirectories in the same directory, each with around 5 files in it. I want to get all 250-or-so files into one directory. In a UNIX system, I'd just open a shell, type mv */* ./ and be done with it. I don't…
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How to monitor and move files to different directories one by one and in sequence on Windows?

How to monitor when files are created and then move them to different directories one by one and in sequence on Windows? For example, I have files in C:\Temp File names are random like File545.tmp File281.tmp File351.tmp but they are created at…
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VSCode window cannot be moved when the title bar is not reachable

Usual Windows applications will open the "Windows menu" an upper-leftmost menu for resizing/moving/closing the window, by typing Alt+Space, which is a lifesaver when the title bar is not accessible. VScode is using this keyboard shortcut to …
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