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Finished Programs / Re: SOLVED: Copy massive folder/file directory....

« on: June 23, 2014, 12:15 AM »

Good idea, Skwire.  I sure could use a clue or two.

And, lanux128, disk scan seems totally reasonable.  What I'm actually copying from, though, is a mounted Acronis backup (disk image from another computer, old XP system).

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Finished Programs / Re: SOLVED: Copy massive folder/file directory....

« on: June 22, 2014, 11:35 PM »

Teracopy chokes after as little as 10 gig.  Consistently.  Every time.

Just tried FastCopy.  Went into the other room to eat dinner.  Came back and computer had rebooted.

Good grief.

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Finished Programs / SOLVED: Copy massive folder/file directory....

« on: June 22, 2014, 09:08 PM »

Task seems pretty straight-forward:

One hard disk.  Two partitions.

On Partition 1 is folder PF1.  On Partition 2 is folder PF2.

In PF2 resides a complicated folder-file-structure set totaling 400 gigabytes.

Challenge:

Copy contents of PF2 to PF1.

Results must be PF2=PF1.  No errors.  Same total number of files and folders, as seen in Windows Explorer, Properties.

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System is Windows 7, 64-bit.  8 gigs memory.  Plenty of room on hard disk.

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Problem is, Windows chokes.  Gets part way through the task, then stops.  Computer sometimes automatically reboots (what an a**hole!).

As you can imagine, unless the task gets 100% completed, with some final message saying so, trust and confidence is shattered.

I've been searching for answers and other possible programs to use.  So still hopeful.

Just wanted to put this thread out there.  Any thoughts and observations welcome.

Nicholas Kormanik

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Efficiently view set of .htm files, one after another

« on: May 09, 2014, 08:01 PM »

How about that.  Well, another reason to upgrade to W7.  Hmmm.

No worries about kludgy.  Simply works is all I care about.

Super idea, not only for me, but for others out there.  As said, surprised no one has accomplished this before.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Efficiently view set of .htm files, one after another

« on: May 09, 2014, 12:15 AM »

Quickly made it through all 1000 .htm files stored on hard disk..., and without a single error message popping up.

So, being able to handle URLs would be frosting on top.  Not totally crucial, as it appears there's more to it than one might think.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Efficiently view set of .htm files, one after another

« on: May 08, 2014, 11:47 PM »

Yes, consistently.  I only tried a handful of URLs, though, so far.

I'll PM you one to begin with...

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Efficiently view set of .htm files, one after another

« on: May 08, 2014, 07:09 PM »

Mass HTM Viewer does seem to work better now on stored .htm files.  Thanks!

And great to see the inclusion of URL links, too.

Appears URL links are trickier for the embedded browser.  Sometimes a message appears in status bar at bottom... "Waiting for...."  And that never ends.  Web browser freezes.  Have to use Windows Task Manager to kill entire program.

Other websites with no status bar message simply cause Mass HTM Viewer to freeze up.  Have to, once again, use Windows Task Manager to kill program.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Efficiently view set of .htm files, one after another

« on: May 05, 2014, 09:21 PM »

Wow, that's sure beats dragging and dropping, Skwire.  And so fast acting.  Views are instantaneous.  Thanks very much.

Some of the .htm pages apparently give Mass HTM Viewer heartburn -- an error message pops up wanting to know if the 'script' should continue.  Most pages are fine, though.

Hope you can do your magic with URL files (web bookmark files) as well.

Great work, Skwire.  Another winner.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Efficiently view set of .htm files, one after another

« on: May 03, 2014, 02:07 AM »

MilesAhead, I made it to "cheesy"....

Thank God for programmers.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Efficiently view set of .htm files, one after another

« on: May 02, 2014, 04:54 PM »

Skwire, not an issue at all, from my standpoint.  I'd love to see it.

What mouser suggests -- a list of .htm or url link files at one side of screen, arrow down or up to view the .htm files in the other part of the screen -- sounds good.  Only issue there would be giving up the screen real estate that the list of files would require.  But, still, nice idea.

Surprised there isn't already a way to do this....

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Post New Requests Here / Efficiently view set of .htm files, one after another

« on: May 01, 2014, 08:01 PM »

I have a set of 1000 .htm files in a folder.  I'd like to quickly and efficiently view each of these in my web browser (Chrome), one after the other.

As of present I drag each file onto the browser window.  That keeps only one tab open and active.

x1000 drags.  What a drag.

What I would prefer..., is to use, say, the up-arrow key or right-arrow key to automatically bring next-in-line .htm file in.

So, just single press, arrow key, next file loaded, in single tab.  Arrow key, arrow key, arrow key.

Easy peasy.

I do this with images in an image viewing program.  I'd like to be able to do the same with .htm files.

(and, ideally, a set of web links in a folder as well)

Does anyone know of a way to do this?  Or some other great approach?  Seems pretty basic, huh?  Surely others have seen the potential utility.  And, if not, maybe someone can write a little program?

Thanks much.

Nicholas Kormanik

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Release: ClipTrap

« on: April 24, 2014, 09:49 PM »

Well, I use my mouse for highlighting (mostly from Internet sites), and copying.

To test, I changed mice.  Same result.  Anything I copied appears 3 times in ClipTrap.

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Release: ClipTrap

« on: April 22, 2014, 12:25 AM »

Nope.  I've replicated the issue many times.

But so far I haven't tried disabling other running programs.  That would be the next thing I guess I should try.

Thanks, though.

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Release: ClipTrap

« on: April 22, 2014, 12:14 AM »

ClipTrap was working fine since you originally created it.  This issue seems new.

I'm pretty sure if others had this problem you'd have heard about it plenty.  So I assume it's something at my end.

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Release: ClipTrap

« on: April 22, 2014, 12:11 AM »

No to both questions.

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Release: ClipTrap

« on: April 21, 2014, 08:33 PM »

For some weird reason when I copy something ClipTrap is pasting to itself multiple times.  Two or three times.

Below is an example:

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Added configurable hotkeys

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Added configurable hotkeys

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Added configurable hotkeys


Any ideas what's going on?

Thanks.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Blank full-screen background, solid movable circle replacing cursor

« on: March 25, 2014, 06:33 PM »

Fully-faceted gem here, Skwire.  Chris has definitely come through.

I hope others might use EyeSnack.  Not as I'm using it, perhaps.  But maybe something for a toddler to play with.  Who knows.

Thanks again, Chris!

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Blank full-screen background, solid movable circle replacing cursor

« on: March 25, 2014, 01:37 AM »

Chris, you've come through again.  Thank you very much.

Your program is preferable to the above mentioned Sysinternals program.  Sysinternals is a bit more bother exiting from (getting it out of system tray), whereas yours simply is the esc key.

If you feel like it at some point..., you could use, say, a light grey background.  But your black works as well.

Great job.  What a champ!

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Blank full-screen background, solid movable circle replacing cursor

« on: March 24, 2014, 01:31 AM »

For anyone following this thread and curious.

Found a program that comes close to what I was asking for:

From Microsoft's Sysinternals.  ZoomIt.

http://technet.micro...ysinternals/bb897434

Execute ZoomIt.  In system tray..., right-click icon, Draw.  Then press the 'w' key.

Result is a red dot that can be moved around on a white background.

I then used a separate macro program to move the red dot around as wanted.

Still not exactly what I was asking for.  But close.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Blank full-screen background, solid movable circle replacing cursor

« on: March 17, 2014, 02:05 AM »

There may not be a positive correlation between "eye exercises" and "rapid reading."

However, I want to give it a go, just to see for myself.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Blank full-screen background, solid movable circle replacing cursor

« on: March 16, 2014, 05:11 AM »

Thanks dr_andus.  Looking for eye exercise in the present case.  I'll use a macro program to move the solid circle around on the screen, at various speeds.

One would think it would be easy to program what I've asked for above.  But maybe not.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Blank full-screen background, solid movable circle replacing cursor

« on: March 15, 2014, 02:56 AM »

I'm not a programmer, but if I were do any of you have a suggestion as to which programming language I might use to accomplish what I've set out above?

Thanks!

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Finished Programs / DONE: Blank full-screen background, solid movable circle replacing cursor

« on: March 12, 2014, 04:06 AM »

I'm trying to create an exercise to help with learning to read.  Presently all I need is what's in the subject:

Blank full-screen background, solid movable circle replacing cursor.

Ideally allow user to:

-- adjust color of background
-- adjust color of solid circle
-- adjust size of solid circle

To clarify, solid circle replaces cursor, and moves around on the background just as a cursor would.

Hopefully parameters can be saved (an .ini file) so that when user double-clicks a shortcut the program opens with those parameters as default.

Quit program with, say, esc key.  Or standard windows x in upper right-hand corner.

As always, if someone knows of such a program already in existence, please let me know.

Thanks much.

Nicholas Kormanik

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Post New Requests Here / Re: For Serious Research: Cadillac of "ClipBoard Managers" vs. "Info/Data Manager"

« on: February 21, 2014, 03:08 AM »

I bookmarked the various leads provided by the esteemed panel here.  Thank you!  But I've yet to read 'em.  So am still naive.

Maybe the sites mentioned will answer a new question I've come up, but I'll ask it anyway:

Dr_andus earlier mentioned a "lifetime" of notes possible, that it would be nice to have saved all, somewhere.  Well, I totally agree.  An entire life's worth of notes and 'snippets' would likely fit on one of our 'thumb drives', together with lots of programs for slicing and dicing, mixing and matching, analyzing, synthesizing, creating all sorts of output.

Then, supplemented by the Internet, multitudes more possibilities spring forth for our expression, manifestation, whatever we want to do with the collection.

I'm setting up the question....

In my humble opinion, every paper -- scientific, academic, etc. -- and book I download and add to my Library really deserves to be in my grand personal database as well.  Yeah, I didn't type it in, or even copy a 'snippet', but still.  It all deserves to be included.

Just as with my 'notes' being in a single shoebox (=folder), thousands of pdfs, epubs, etc., are in a single shoebox as well.  A huge mass of carefully selected (cough) pdf files, all jammed into my Library folder.  Each item chock-full of valuable insights, findings, information.

At some point soon the technology of personal indexing and instant-searching capabilities will allow us ready access to all that information we've accumulated.  We're not quite there yet.  But soon.  Suppose: a dedicated hyper-fast solid state drive for Library and huge index -- probably at least a terabyte in size..., twelve gigabytes of memory, a screaming multi-core CPU, 64-bit operating system.  And incredible indexing/retrieval software.

The question is: (let's just say)  If we include all of our lifetime of notes, plus all our carefully selected literature, and have truly instantaneous access to all of it (by way of super-indexing/retrieval), how will that affect our creation of output?

Getting back to my original question at the outset.  With the above being said, no need for Cadillac of Clipboard Managers.  Skwire's Clipboard Trap is fine -- one long text file of heterogenous snippets is not a problem.  Don't bother parsing out into various categories and topics.  Keep all notes in one single shoebox (=folder).  The Grand Indexer, regularly run, and the Info/Data Manager would be the way to go.

Right?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: For Serious Research: Cadillac of "ClipBoard Managers" vs. "Info/Data Manager"

« on: February 15, 2014, 05:39 PM »

Thanks Dr_Andus.  Great explanation.

TaoPhoenix likes MyInfo ($49, pro-$99).  What other programs have you, and others, found worthy of holding your vast and growing supply of information?

Is this sort of program beyond what we might hope for on donationcoder.com?

Dr_Andus says "if you want to work ... on an on-going basis dynamically (e.g. by constantly analysing, re-organising and synthesising)...."  I'm very interested in this process.  Can it be further explained some?