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Forum: General XP issues or comments December 5th 08, 03:19 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 5
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Posted By PhilHibbs
Deleting files from one directory that are not present in another

Lutz Kruse wrote:
you should take a look at robocopy from Windows 2003 Reskit. There is a
switch /MIR (Mirror).

That looks like exactly what I want, thanks. I'm still curious as to
why my...
Forum: General XP issues or comments December 5th 08, 03:00 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 5
Views: 129
Posted By PhilHibbs
Deleting files from one directory that are not present in another

Pegasus wrote:
This works fine when I run it on the command prompt directly, but
doesn't work in a cmd file. I seem to remember something about having
to double up the % but I can't...
Forum: General XP issues or comments December 5th 08, 12:38 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 5
Views: 129
Posted By PhilHibbs
Deleting files from one directory that are not present in another

I'm trying to sync one directory with another. I've got an xcopy
command that makes sure that files on the source are present on the
target, but I also want to delete files on the target that are...
Forum: General XP issues or comments June 24th 08, 09:39 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 8
Views: 108
Posted By PhilHibbs
Max size of a directory

A word of warning to anyone else reading this thread, though, is that
with a *very* large number of files (hundreds of thousands, possibly
just tens of thousands), you get weird errors when issuing...
Forum: General XP issues or comments March 4th 08, 02:47 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 27
Views: 371
Posted By PhilHibbs
WinXP big performance boost

Make a .reg file like this:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem]
"NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate"=dword:00000001

Double click on it and add it to the registry. This...
Forum: General XP issues or comments December 9th 07, 12:17 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 6
Views: 180
Posted By PhilHibbs
DIR and COPY misbehaving with lots of files

Pegasus wrote:
This is not a bug but a limiation in the LFN/SFN naming system...

You say potato, I say potato.

Having half a million files in the one folder is IMHO not a good
idea. Not only...
Forum: General XP issues or comments December 8th 07, 10:30 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 6
Views: 180
Posted By PhilHibbs
DIR and COPY misbehaving with lots of files

I have an XP server with a directory with over half a million files in
it, with long numerical names such as 123456_234567.TIF. I wanted to
get a sample of them, so I ran a command prompt and...
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