I'm not sure I really understand ADS, but it seems that a file has a main one then potentially more. Well, I ran a program and discovered that my source drive has about 700 ADS more than what the destination drive has after performing a robocopy.
I know that robocopy can copy ADS, since I started with a blank drive, then scanned with an ADS scanner revealing the ADSes of robocopied files.
So, can someone help clear up the confusion? Can I use robocopy to copy only an ADS? How do I get the number of ADS on each volume to match exactly?
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I have a 1tb SSD for my OS hard drive and then a regular HD as a second hard drive. OneDrive appears to default to my Users/OneDrive folder and doesn't seem to have a way to change that. So what I've done is I created a symlink from the OneDrive folder to my second HD where I have 700+ MB of family pictures and videos. OneDrive doesn't realize this is what I've done so it sees that my SSD has more than 1TB of used space because it thinks all the pictures and videos are stored there. I can't stop syncing some of the other folders in one drive because of that. I have a few folders in OneDrive that I don't really need or want on my computer so I'd like to tell my computer to ignore those folders but because OneDrive thinks I'm syncing more data than my SSD can hold it won't let me stop syncing those folders. Does anyone know what I can do to stop syncing those folders?
I made sure every single thing is correct with the related file names and their content addresses and so on yet I always get stuck upon executing the !sudo line command which should open and use a given file, it returns this error :
"Error: Cannot read file '/content/-p': No such file or directory"
As I have already said, the file does exist and is located in my Google Drive, I even copy pasted its specific path to make sure I put it right and yet the issue is still there, why? how can I solve it?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Two scenarios in my experience:
(1) It's the first time running the lines of code after mounting your google drive and for no apparent reason it runs for tens of minutes, produces not output, raises an error (e.g. "File does not exist"), and the session crashes; you repeat the exact same steps, then it works.
(2) There are thousands (or more) files within the folder that contains the file you're trying to read or write; when a google drive folder contains many files (i.e. thousands or more) it may crash for that reason.
Before I look into this any further I just wondered if it's possible within VB.net to check if DropBox has synced?
Basically the program I have written uses DropBox to synchronize jobs to a Main computer which then ultimately process the zip file and deletes it. Once the job is processed a text file is re synced and the person who originally sent the job gets feedback as to its progress. All this works great. However, I would like to give an indication within the program itself so some of the less computer literate can see that DropBox has synced and they can safely turn off there laptops and head off home.
Has anybody any experience of this?
You could use the Dropbox API to do the upload/download instead, at which point you'd know exactly when things had happened.
See https://www.dropbox.com/developers for information about the API.
Is there any simple way to do this?
I basically want iTunes to not open if an external hard drive is not connected. This is essentially a user issue - as despite asking multiple times, my girlfriend will forget and open an audio or video file without the external HDD connected (where the iTunes library is kept) and so the usual rigamarole occurs... the media file will then try and add itself to the iTunes library, which can't be found, so it'll default back to it's position on the internal hard disk, and then when I come to use it, it'll try and consolidate it for me (which is nice), except it then decides it needs to organise it - and this takes about 6 hours due to the amount of music I have on there.
I've tried changing the internal (default) iTunes music folder path to an alias to the external one, but that starts throwing out some beastly errors once you get into the loop (when the alias is essentially a pointer to an invalid location).
Is Automator something that could be used? Sorry I'm not very pro with OS X I'm afraid.
Thanks,
Duncan
It seems a straightforward way to do this is just to move the iTunes.app onto the external hard drive, and replace iTunes.app in the Applications folder with an alias pointing to iTunes on the external HDD (called iTunes).
As iTunes is system protected, you'll need to change the permissions of iTunes.app to move it, which you can do via gui or terminal (sudo chmod...)
Simples.
I'm a huge fan of robocopy and use it extensively to copy between various servers I need to update.
Lately I've been archiving to an Amazon S3 account that I access via a mapped drive using JungleDisk. I then robocopy my files from local PC to S3.
Sometimes I get a very strange 'Incorrect function' error message in robocopy and the file fails to copy. I've tried xcopy and straightforward copy and paste between file explorer windows. In each case I get some variation of the 'Incorrect function' or 'Illegal MS-DOS function' and the file will never copy.
I delete the target but to no avail.
Any ideas?
Don't know if you're allowed to answer your own questions but I think I've fixed it...
I found this in the jungledisk support forums
The quick solution is to zip the
files, delete the original, then unzip
the files because zip can't handle
extended attributes. Another solution
is to move them to a FAT filesystem,
then move again to NTFS filesystem,
because FAT don't manage extended
attributes.
In both cases the result is the
deletion of extended attributes, and
the files can be moved to the
jungledisk.
The files can have extended attributes
for different reasons, expecially
migrations from other filesystems: in
my case was the migration of a CVS
repository from a ext2 filesystem to
NTFS.
Seems to have worked for me...
I've had similar issues from both OSX and linux. At first I was not concerned by it but then it occurred to me these issues could result in potential data contamination or backup failure. So I have abandon JungleDisk for everything except my lightweight work.
Zipping/taring files was not an option for me because of the size of my data set. With this approach you have to upload your entire data set each and every time.
I'm not sure which attributes you refer to but could you robocopy with the /COPY:DT switch to strip off the attributes?