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How to delete .fuse_hidden* files?
I have small Linux server (Debian Squeeze) which runs a Samba server which is configured to share some folders with some windows machines. While trying to delete one of the directories from windows I ...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Finding Hidden files that are causing drive to fill up
What is the best way to find out what files are sucking up so much space? My Windows directory lists its size as 15 GB but when I run a powershell script against it, it shows 40 GB. It seems 40 GB ...
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Apache Hide Specific File Types from Web
I have a repository of files with .php, .sh, and .txt extensions which gets checked out to the web directory of my server (/var/www). I need the .php files to be able to be reached by typing in a url ...
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QNAP ftp: hide Mac OSX hidden files .DS_Store and others
I am using a QNAP as an FTP server. Users access this NAS from their Mac OSX Lion clients and put files and folders inside the QNAP shares, which are later being accessed via FTP from external ...
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How to get Proftpd to completely hide a directory
Within my ftp tree there is a directory that I don't want to be accessible via anonymous.
I am able to hide the directory in question and all the files within the directory.
What I have not been ...
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What could cause local folders in a Windows 2008 DFS replication group to randomly obtain system and hidden attributes
We have a Windows 2008 server (not R2) acting as a primary file source in a DFS replication group with a single other server that happens to be Windows Storage Server 2008. All is well in terms of ...
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How to hide shadow-copies in NFS shares?
I have a Ubuntu server with both samba and nfs-server.
The server does snapshotting for the exported directory
and the samba server uses the snapshots to emulate
shadow copies. ( vfs objects = ...
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Why is my access.log file not accessible?
I have an apache installation on my dev machine. The httpd.conf is all set up right. By the config file I should be getting an access.log file in my logs directory, but it doesn't seem to exist in ...
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how i can create hidden folder in unix-AIX Version 6.1
I try this command mkdir .done but it does not work. How does one create a hidden folder?
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chmod all files (including hidden files) in a directory in Linux (not recursively)
Yesterday I did something stupid which I today realised. I ran:
/root# chmod o-rwx * .*
This supposed to remove read, write and execute permissions for the world on all files in the current ...
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How to unhide hidden NTFS folder? (option greyed out, maybe it's a system hidden folder)
I have this perplexing folder that I'm the "Owner" and I have all NTFS rights on it: it's invisible. I would like to make it visible without having to check the "Hide protected operating system files" ...
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How to get a content of a hidden file over https?
Now I am successfully using WebClient.DownloadString to get file content from ESX server. My URI is something like:
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How do I access the hidden “R & R” partition on a Lenovo laptop?
I have some Lenovo laptops (T410 / X201) and want to get the .wim files from the R & R partition.
Anyone know how I can access it? It shows in the OS (i.e. has a drive letter assigned) but shows ...
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How to find hidden/cloak files in Windows 2003?
Here is the point.
I set Windows to display all the hidden files and protected operating system files but even after that, my antivirus (Kaspersky) is still getting a ".dll" file on ...
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How to view hidden files using Linux `find` command
On a Linux server, I need to find all files with a certain file extension in the current directory and all sub-directories.
Previously, I have always using the following command:
find . -type f | ...
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Windows Server 2003 Temporary Internet Files filling with hidden junk?
I have a server running Windows Server 2003. Nobody uses the internet from this machine. If I go to C:\Documents and Settings\(user)\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files and right-click for ...
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Ignore windows hidden files when copying with rsync
I need to keep in sync a very large directory structure (a few hundreds GB) between a Windows machine and a Linux machine. I'm using rsync to do the copy because it automatically ignores unchanged ...
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How to delete all hidden files and directories using Bash?
The obvious solution produces an exit code of 1:
bash$ rm -rf .*
rm: cannot remove directory `.'
rm: cannot remove directory `..'
bash$ echo $?
1
One possible solution will skip the "." and ".."
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How to deny the web access to some files?
I need to do an operation a bit strange.
First, i run on Debian, apache2 (which 'runs' as user www-data)
So, I have simple text file with .txt ot .ini, or whatever extension, doesnt matter.
These ...
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How to make scp copy hidden files?
I often use SCP to copy files around - particularly web-related files. The problem is that whenever I do this, I can't get my command to copy hidden files (eg, .htaccess).
I typically invoke this:
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Is it possible to hide lost+found?
Given a partition intended solely for storing music, video and so-on, is it possible to hide the lost+found directory?
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Recursively copying hidden files - Linux
Is there an easy way to recursively copy all hidden files in a directory to another directory? I would like to back up just all the settings files in a home directory, not the normal files. I tried:
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