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Post New Requests Here / Adding link to webpage when using cut and paste into notepad from a website

« on: February 18, 2014, 11:18 AM »

This is something that is similar to another problem I had a while back of wanting to save the link back to the site where I downloaded any files from.  On that I finally resolved myself to using FDM which does help though still not quite what I was after.

Many time I find useful information while browsing the Net on various topic, I open notepad, and use cut and paste to save the specific part I need to refer back to.
then I go to the browser address bar and copy the link for the page I am on and add it to the bottom.

finally, I save the notepad document into a folder called "Net-Info" on my C: drive.

These three or four steps are not that bad but I with I could at least hot key the addition of the link because that step sometimes ends up with my getting only a partial link or even accidentally closing the page.  I already figured out the part about using a shortcut to a blank.txt file that is located in the "net-info" folder so that when I save it, that is where it goes.  But adding the link is something I would like to automate.  Better than ahot key would be if the information in the address bar was added to the document as soon as I click to open the blank one.  Maybe this is something I could do with an "auto-mouse" capture script?

Anyway, once the link info is in the text file, I could cut and paste the text I wanted from the site above it.

It would also be nice if the name of the file would automatically become the first 20 characters of the pasted text like Word does.  Then I could just paste in the data and click save.    I try not to use Word or WordPad so the link is not automatically active but can be copied and pasted if I want to.

If there is an easier way than taking all the steps I do or if it is something I need to program a script for if someone knows, I would appreciate the knowledge.
It seems like there should already be a button for adding the open link to a text file  in the browsers but if it is there I cannot find it.

If the knowledge is out there, I am sure someone here knows it. 

152

Living Room / Need for a true Multi-user Collaborative Calendar

« on: January 05, 2014, 07:29 PM »

This is something I have been looking to find for some time.      with no luck I am afraid.  I am currently using an adding we have had for years called Workgroupshare that does interact with Outlook but does not play well with other OS such as Ipad/Iphone/Blackberry.  The resulting mix of Sync's from each is creating a ton of duplicate and "old-removed" entries that suddenly reappear with no way to figure out whose laptop or phone did the trick.

The ideal solution would work as both an Outlook add-in plus being able to run on Apple IOS/Android/Blackberry etc.  A multi user appointment scheduler with the preferred format the same as an Outlook calendar.  Updates (synchronizations) should be automatic at timed intervals and the ability to display each user in a different color (up to maybe 10 or so) would be a major plus.

Importantly, it needs to be able to track which user made what changes and when so that erroneous changes or entries could be traced back to the source.  Historical data for at least 2 months in the past as well as 2 months or  more in the future would need to be included in each sync.  The items stored would also need to be able to link or store internally various small files like itineraries, reservation receipts,  etc.

Outlook 2013's shared calendar was supposed to do all this .. and does ... as long as every device is using Outlook 2013.  Not so good on a smartphone. 
If the only option is a true webhosted Calendaring service that might work even if it does not link with Outlook's calendars, as long as it has keeps a local copy that could be accessed with or without internet access which would show the most current data. 

Does anyone have one they can recommend?

Thanks

153

Living Room / Help with a Script/Batch to perform multiple tasks after inputting two variables

« on: January 04, 2014, 11:36 PM »

I must need a new pair of glasses too because I posted the whole thing in the wrong Forum

If anyone happens to know how to move it to here this is where it belongs.  I don't want to waste space with a duplicate post.  I was so careful to write it out with exacting details then posed it in the Mac Forum

If anyone happens to wander over there .. I am sure someone here can point me in the right direction to get this done.
It is esier for me to work in Basic or Windows/Dos Batch but I am not sure about the MySQL database creation from a command line.
This is the title I posted under in the General Software Forum until I can figure out how to move it.
 
    >Script to input two variables and use them to perform multiple tasks<
Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and Happy New year.  

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General Software Discussion / Script to input two variables and use them to perform multiple tasks

« on: January 04, 2014, 10:33 AM »

I need a script to automate something that has become a very tedious and risk-prone procedure that I have to perform several times a day.   Worse, I am going to have to teach someone else how to do it with a “Zero” margin of error.  I am hoping someone here can offer some ideas on how to accomplish the following:

The script should ask me to input two variables to be used to perform a series of tasks that never varies
The first step would input a name (example "jimmyk") for the first variable $na1
The second would input a description (example:  "jimmywins")  for variable $nb2

(I need to use some variable name that is not likely to already exist in other scripts in case I have to join this script to interact with another script that could already be using them)

Then first procedure would be to check for any errors that would make these variables unusable.  The naming conventions require that neither of these can have any capital letters, spaces, hyphens or other special characters (%, $, #, etc.) and a maximum length of 13 characters.

Next I have to check the existing databases in “c:\mainfolder\databases” to be sure there is not already a database using the name of the 2nd variable.  

Finally, I need to check to see if there is  preexisting subfolder of the first variable containing a folder by the name of the 2nd variable.
(example:  There might be a folder C:\mainfolder\jimmyk\  but it cannot already contain the subfolder "jimmykwins".  

If any of these is conditions exist ( if the "jimmykwins" subfolder already exists in C:\mainfolder\jimmyk" or if the "jimmykwins" database exists in "c:\mainfolder\databases" or if I accidentally made the name too long or included any capital letters or spaces etc.. as mentioned above this would result in an error message and send me back to the start to change the entered data to fix the problem.

If both inputs pass all these tests I need to use those input variables to create a subdirectory named "jimmyk" within a directory "C:\mainfolder"  IF it does not already exist there.

(Example c:\mainfolder\jimmyk").      If it DOES already exist then proceed to the next step.

In the next step it should create a sub-subdirectory using the name of the second variable inside the directory of the first variable.  

(example: "c:\mainfolder\jimmyk\jimmywins”)

There are or will be other sub-subdirectories such as "jimmyloses" or "jimmyties" but never another with the exact same name.  If there is a preexisting subfolder with the name in variable $nb2 I would not want to overwrite it.  This same rule applies to the creation of the new database file later.   If any of these occur, that should be an automatic stop with an error flag.

The next step is to copy the contents of the “c:\mainfolder\master template” directory including all the files and folders contained into the newly created sub-directory
(This populates the directory “c:\mainfolder\jimmyk\jimmywins\" with all the files and folders from the master template.  Currently done using xcopy or cut and paste if I am in GUI mode.)

Next, create an empty  “MySQL” database of the correct type with the name "jimmywins" in the MySQL database folder.
(I currently use phpmyadmin to do this).  If there already exists a database by that name, I would definitely not want to overwrite it or replace it in any way.  This should have been caught back at the beginning and forced me to use some other name.

*Note:  If the automatic database creation is a "deal-breaker"   it  is not an absolute necessity for the script.  I can perform that part after all the rest is done*.*

Next step is to edit a file called "identityfile.cfg" which was copied from the "master template" into the "c:/mainfolder/jimmyk/jimmywins"  directory. I need to replace the single instance of the word "masterdb" with the 2nd variable "jimmywins" for use in identifying the correct database for the main program to use later
(This is now done by editing the name-field in the identityfile.cfg  file with Notepad++)

Finally, the last thing is to  create a hyperlink used to access that database with the format "http://www.mainfolder.com/1st variable/2nd variable"  and writing it to an existing text file "info.txt" that was copied into the newly created subdirectory "c:\mailnfolder\jimmyk\jimmywins" when all the other files were populated there.
 (Also now done with notepad ++)

I could be missing something but I think this is the procedural order I have been manually following to accomplish all the tasks done with those two variables

Currently the time needed to do all this is at least 15 minutes even for me and I have done it hundreds of times.  The chances of a typo is high enough with me but would be higher with someone else who had never done it.  A script to ensure that this procedure was followed properly at every step would be a godsend for sure

I hope everyone at DC had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.  Like most   I.T.   people, I was working through the Holidays but still had time to remember how it used to be.        

I think it is time for Santa to make another Donation to DC (In the General fund I guess) as so  many of you have helped me with problems in the past I don't want anyone to feel missed or any less appreciated.  I am not sure what happens to donations to the General fund but I assume they in some way benefit everyone.  

Final Note:  I already tried doing this with a program that "follows the mouse" to repeat all my steps pausing for me to enter the needed names at each place but it ended up taking just as long to do because I have to keep entering those variables over and over again.   That is where it is possible to make a typo that screws up everything.   I admit that I am not that good with this but "Ghost Mouse" or anything like it is definitely not an answer.

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General Software Discussion / One more Wish. A need for a Working solution to a Collaborative Calendar

« on: December 10, 2013, 11:42 PM »

If anyone has any info of the best place to look.  Or wants a new project that someone would gladly purchase? 

I have a client who desperately needs a simple Calendar format scheduler exactly like found in Outlook.  Which is essentially what they use now but this  "Calendar" is a special one created and synchronized by a client add-in for Outlook called "Workgroupshare".

The problems are all related to "tracking" in a sense.  They end up with many duplicate entries.  Some are real duplicates which can be removed with a de-duplicator.  But others show the same event only it starts and ends by an hour or in some cases even 30 minutes different.  These are therefore NOT duplicates (even though they really are) and de-duplicators will not remove them.  I have found after doing a lot of checking that in some cases, maybe ALL cases it is caused by Outlook and differences in Time Zones of who entered the data. 

Unfortunately, as I mentioned, the developers did not include any means to know who entered what.  It is a shared calendar, that is equally shared with no way to know who did what and when.  This has resulted in a lot of "heated commentary" over who is at fault with no way to know.  The only way this could occur by "human error" is if both people did not "see" the already existing file (which should be impossible with it doing a "sync" every 15 minutes)

Or it is a fully automatic thing where the synchronizing software sees it as it appears with times stated per Outlook's rules for such making it appear one hour off so that the people who are in EST get there on time instead of late (or early) by one hour due to Outlook "helping" by adjusting the appointment instead of taking each as a literal "Item" to be treated as just that with NO changs instead of trying to "help out" and changing it.

Once it shows a different time, it is a completely different entry so it cannot even be removed by de-duplication. 

In other cases.  One person who has two laptops and uses one most of the time may not even turn on the other but once a week.  When they do, it has not been synced to the server for that whole week while many things have changed.  Apparently, the sync software can only tell that this out of date laptop has what it "thinks" are new appointments but they are really ones that have been deleted.  So, it adds them all back.  This has definitely happened just recently.

I am of the opinion that if there was at least some kind of ability to track the changes the software should be able to know that the ones on the laptop which has not been synced are old and should not be added.  The newer data on the server is what should stay and delete those entries.  I have been told that the reason for this is that both laptops have the same email account (they do since they belong to the same person) and therefore the same level of control.  The software has no way of knowing,   if they turn on both at the same time,    which one is the most current. 

Taking this one step further, if Both laptops have been off, both are out of date, maybe one more than the other.  So neither should send anything to the server but instead should only go there to read what the Group's most current appointments are for.  But this is not what happens.  Poorly written client add-ins. 

I can see the problems but I have no idea how to fix them.  I am hoping someone else here has experienced this and maybe knows of a working solution as this is a time critical issue.  If I can buy a working solution "Now", that is what I really need.  While they would like to continue to work inside of Outlook, I am of the opinion that a software written specifically for their needs would be far better off running outside the PST files since they run on POP/SMTP and usually lug around PST's in the multi-Gigabyte range.  (14GB to 19 GB is not the least bit unusual.)  Outlook problems are plenty enough even without this add-in.

Again.  I appreciate any advice.  This Forum has always been a fountain of useful knowledge and One of the best  if not "THE BEST    " of any I have ever belonged to.

This is probably out of place in this context       But I wish everyone here a very Happy Holiday Season!   

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General Software Discussion / Command Line special needs for Batch file - Replace/rename/remove in filenames

« on: December 10, 2013, 10:53 PM »

I have finally   managed to finish a working script to accomplish a task that I have to run several times a week.  It was something that had always been done by hand due to the specific nature of the needs.  Now that I have a working script that outputs to a dated filename, I have a few final cleanup tasks that I am still doing in notepad that could be added to the script if I knew how to do it through command line.
The output is a list of file paths as they exist relative to the directory on the server.  In their final form, they are all really hyperlinks.  To get there, I have to:
1: change all "\"  to "/".
2:  change all occurrences of "c:/1st level/2nd level/"  to "http://www."  (note that this shows the already been changed slashes)
3:  I need to remove a folder referenced in the physical local path as it doe not exist in the hyperlinks ie:  Remove all instances of "/webroot"
4:  And finally. the tricky one.  If any of the created hyperlinks ends up being a link with less than 5 "/"'s  I need to delete it as it is not a working link.
And there are always going to be several of these.  This part I have to just manually do as notepad is no help in making it any easier.

The others are all simple functions done in notepad but I cannot find the corresponding command line references to accomplish them.
I am going to try to paste in the code below as it currently exists.  The last time I tried this it would not insert due to a need for indenting?  I think?
I hope this comes through.  I am sure someone out there probably know exactly what I am missing.  
Thanks for any pointers

Code: Text [Select]

1. @echo off
2. for /f "delims=" %%a in ('wmic OS Get localdatetime  ^| find "."') do set dt=%%a
3. set dt=%dt:~0,4%-%dt:~4,2%-%dt:~6,2%_%
4. setlocal
5. set currentLevel=0
6. set maxLevel=%2
7. if not defined maxLevel set maxLevel=2
8.  
9. :procFolder
10. pushd %1 2>nul || exit /b
11. if %currentLevel% lss %maxLevel% (
12. for /d %%F in (*) do (
13. echo %%~fF >>c:\Hyperlinks\Working-%dt%.txt
14. set /a currentLevel+=1
15. call :procFolder "%%F"
16. set /a currentLevel-=1
17. )
18. )
19. popd

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General Software Discussion / Google Website Topics

« on: November 29, 2013, 10:36 AM »

Does anyone have any idea how Google decides what to print as links to your website?  I have two Flash modules that only work correctly when used in context with the rest of the site.  For some reason, Google has recently added these at direct entries.  Since they are not folders, but rather files in the main folder I am not sure how to go about stopping the listing or at least stopping it from working.  In total they recently added 4 links with titles like "loading, loading, loading..." and one that says "100%".  I would be happy if all it had was index.html.
The others are real inside pages and while I would rather it went in the front door, these pages can be loaded as standalone and it would not be so bad, kind of like a directory of pages on the site.
But the (Flash) > pages do not display properly and have no real meaning unless the user gets there from the main site page.

This is something that just happened recently as I have never seen it before.

Thanks

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Post New Requests Here / Default email Domain autofill

« on: November 27, 2013, 01:04 AM »

I know this is surely possible but not sure if it is something there is a 3rd party app to do or if it wold take special mods to Outlook.
The company I work for has I high turnover of employees and there are quite a lot of them.   I have always wondered why Outlook does not have an option to automatically fill in a "default" mail domain wen someone enters a name like "john doe" and nothing else.
Since John just got hired, there is no auto fill for him so you have to type in the full @xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.com email domain.

It' not a big deal, just one of those small time saving "things" that sure would be nice to see it happen since or company mail domain is about 20characters long. (not MY idea    Short is sweet!).

My current solution which is not really that bad was to use my favorite hotkey utility (Clavier) to make a hokey for the rest.  As long as I remember to hit the hot key (they have a name for that but I forget what it is   )

Anyway, dumb request and maybe it is already in outlook but I don't know where.

Happy Thanksgiving to All and THANKS  from ME to Everyone for such a Great Board!!

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Post New Requests Here / File Send Link by email as a Single Hotkey without having to leave the webpage

« on: November 23, 2013, 11:04 AM »

I got so close but could not find the final piece to the puzzle.    I bit of searching got me to the correct setup to achieve everything but the LINK for the webpage I was on.  F2 set to be the hotkey does everything but add the link.  I am sure that there is a variable somewhere that stores that link but I have no idea where.
This would just make it super easy to keep track of random browsing that turns up tidbits that I would like to go back and look at in depth but that may not be relevant to the reason for the Search I am working on,  I run across all kinds of places that I would love to go back and visit and to be honest file send PAGE by email might even be a better option since the link displayed might not reveal the reason why I saved it.
I setup outlook to automatically sort out these "interesting sites to be looked at when I have time" emails and pt them all in a folder.  Since it is an email, I have a date and time for when I ran across each one.

I'm not complaining, as the option to click all those keys does work quite well but it gets old after a while when I think about it.  Why isn't there a single click option to do this without even showing me Outlook or anything else so I do not lose my original train of thought for what I was really looking for?
I have searched for an IE add-on or even a Google Chrome add-on with no luck.  The F2 option was built from suggestions I found on 'How To Geek' and it works quite well except that it pops up the email on top of the webpage so I can fill in the subject (which I would like to be the link to the webpage)  <or as I said maybe better that it be the webpage itself.... except this could lead to some very large emails    ....  >

If anyone knows the location of the variable that would hold the actual web-address of the page I am on when I hit that hotkey I would appreciate it.  Most of the rest is done with the normal capabilities of the mailto: format which has a place to add the subject or I could make it the body.

The final step would be to complete the sequence with a SEND command so that all I might see is a flicker on the screen as it all happens.

Someone here always has the answers so it is the first place I look. 

Thanks

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Add QuickLaunch Back to taskbar with one click from commandline

« on: November 22, 2013, 10:34 PM »

The normal method of doing this has always worked fine but I have to go through all the steps on every system I want it on.
I promised myself that eventually I would find the time to make the muss and fuss a one click solution. Needless to say, I never did.    

However after some research tonight I did find someone who took the time to compile the process with AHK and I have to admit it is like a player piano on high speed playing an old favorite..

Since I test out so many different things on my systems I inevitably end up reloading them every few months and puttting the Quicklaunch back on.  It's not hard, just tedious.

For anyone who might be interested:  This is not my work but I have to give credit to the author it works like a charm.
Run from a command prompt using the specific command line he recommends (For me that was best but I suggest you read all the options)
I just added the QL to 4 Windows 7 systems I had to reload from scratch and Zero problems
I had hoped to find a registry edit since this is nothing more than creating a new toolbar but it seems many others have tried that route but none succeeded.

For those of you who might be interested, here is the link to the download which includes the source code as a bonus.

http://www.mediafire...nchClassic_1.05.zip#!

This was posted in 2011 so it may not be there forever.  I am keeping an archive of it if anyone finds it unavailable please PM me.

I hope this helps someone else as I  have been helped so many times by others here on Donation Coders.

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Post New Requests Here / Modification for MicroChat script

« on: November 02, 2013, 12:47 PM »

This is something that is slightly beyond my capabilities but following the script command order it seems it should be a possibility.
I have a use for the program as is but it would be greatly enhanced by the addition of one other thing.  I need an option for the user at login to choose from a list of available chats as well as start a new one. 
The program is a simple echo to a blank html file named msg.html by default.
I need a way to have more than one of these and allow the person accessing it to choose from a list of them all for which one they want to open.
Since it is a simple PHP script using no real database (and I would like to keep it that way) it would need to have the addition of a menu (just a directory list of available "msg*.html" files.  Preferably I would like to allow the person logging in to be able to choose from those already there or create a new "blank.html" file that they could name as they need.

This is for a specific use and I am not worried about the people using it  abusing that ability.  In addition, the chats are all cleaned out every night.

But where it is used, they have multiple topics and would like to be able to discuss/chat with each other on a "per topic" basis.

I am sure there are far more robust applications out there that may already have this capability but I already have Micro-Chat working perfectly as-is and hate to make things complicated if there is a simple solution.

Thanks for any input.

I could post the msg.php and msg.html as the files are only 1kb but I don't want to waste space unnecessarily. 
www.sourceforge    or     www.phptoys     both have the script available as a 4kb zip file download

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Developer's Corner / Website using cshtml - Razor - IIS-7 and maybe dotnet4.0

« on: October 27, 2013, 11:54 AM »

This is totally a "question" not  aneed for a program but to  gain enough knowledge to finish a job.
This company bought a new software package that allows their service people to connect to their ServiceReport software via web through an SSL connection.  The people inside the office also use the same software but they enter it from a  link on their local systems.  The remote module is for the techs in the field.  They connect to a web-address that uses a static IP configured in IIS7 server 2008R2.  The main program uses  a SQL database but that part is working for the people inside already.
The problems came up when I tried to connect through the outside via web.  First, the software they use is a little on the "under-supported" side.  If iyt works on the inside, the rest is up to their local IT guy (me).  But they have changed their setup at east twice since I began 2 weeks ago as they found problems with Windows 8. 
That was just to give you some insight as to why I can't just call their tech support to get an answer.  I did.  Their reply was they don't know anything about how it works basically.
The site they connect to is written with a program called RAZOR which I am not familiar with.  ALL the code has .cshtml extensions which will not open with any browser I have tried and the best I can get is various "550", "403"  error codes.  Yet I have followed to the letter the instructions they sent. (which were written for windows XP!)  They do not even mention the need for dotnet40  I found that out by accident.  Their installer puts in dotnet3.5.

OK.  My question is this:  Does anyone know if their is a way to convert CSHTML to normal HTML so I can at least figure out what file is the one for website entry
(it isn't "index.anything'  or if it is, their software installer doesn't create it).   This is nothing more than a password protected gateway into their service module from the internet.  The only program I have worked with like it also uses SQL database etc. but the users connect via VPN.  In that program each user once connected through a secure VPN then connects to the main program database and uses their own copy of the client software.

Right now, I am just trying to get this "cshtml" website to open even using localhost. I can access the system via the web-address but after that it isn't binding to the correct files to open a web-login
I would even be happy to load this thing onto APACHE under Windows 7

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Post New Requests Here / comma remover and name order changer

« on: October 16, 2013, 05:39 PM »

I don't know a better way to explain it but I have a folder of about 200 jpg files.
I need to change the file names from "last name," "first name" "middle initial.".  The program that creates the photo display uses the actual name of the jpeg as the title of the photo which makes sense.  But the person who created the list was obviously someone is used to working in a large office and filing by last name.
I found some utilities that can reverse alphabetize etc and I feel sure that if I asked Google the right question someone has already written such a script.
So that the comma would trigger deleting everything in front of it and the space after it and adding what it deleted to the end of the name.
Instead of "Abbott, John B.jpg  I would have "John B. Abbott.jpg"

This is probably a perfect task for Excel using the comma delimiter but I never use Excel for anything much,  Just thought I would ask if anyone has ever seen such a tool before I write my own. I hate to try to reinvent the wheel. 
Thanks

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General Software Discussion / How to change an html script usingc "list" to instead pull the ites from a folde

« on: October 09, 2013, 12:34 AM »

I have a scrolling display for some photos that currently is set to have a separate entry coded for each item displayed.  There are only 20 or so.  But the true list is closer to 100 photos.  I already have the section laid out and space allotted for but I need a way to pull those photos as random from a folder full of them (one that will get fuller over time) and scroll them in a vertical display with one going off the top as the next scrolls up from the bottom.  I am also not averse to the possibility of fading one out and another in.  I may have see a Flash script somewhere to do that as well.

It would be nice if I could assign two variables $a and $b to two of therandom photos which would begin the scroll.  $b which would move in to replace $a.  And then $a get replaced with a  new random photo which would itself push $b off the top as it scrolled up.  This would be repeated indefinitely is what I need.

Seemed easy when I thought of it but not so easy in practice.  I am missing something the the part that assigns the variables a photo a think.
Thanks for any help.

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General Software Discussion / HTACCESS file correct wording to prevent outside access but allow internal links

« on: October 06, 2013, 11:05 PM »

On a website I have been working on, I recently got some help for a chat room from as very nice user here.  The program called Microchat (which I highly recommend to anyone who might need a standalone minimalist environment.  It was great advice and I appreciate it) (Sorry "App103"  it was you I think.  Give credit where it is due 

On my website i now am able to provide a link to  the microchat folder inside the parent folder.  So far, they have to leave one page to go to the other but I got it to open a tab instead of a page so getting back is easy.  The problem is that while inside the microchat folder, the displayed web-address can be copied and used to re-enter the microchat room without going through the main name/password log in.  Normally I would use htaccess  with the usual "order deny, allow.." ect.  But it would be more practical if it redirected them to the login page if they tried to "sneak in the back door"   .  

I tried to use a normal htaccess redirect that i have used before but on this one it did nothing at all.  Pasting the link into a browser addressbar allowed me outside access going to the Microchat subfolder insider the website with no problem.  Not good as that bypasses all security  Since all the pages inside the site must have a link to allow the logged-in users to make use of the chat room, it has to allow at least inside access (from the main site directory to the Microchat subdirectory) but anyone trying to later reuse the displayed link in an address-bar needs to be blocked.  Either redirected to the login page or a 403 Access not permitted. or any suitable "Keep Out Message"    

I tried a couple of htaccess files I have used in the past but they did not seem to help, probably because I don't know what I'm doing    But.  I'm getting there.

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Post New Requests Here / Someone already answered this once but I cannot find the solution :( DIR list

« on: October 01, 2013, 04:34 PM »

I have to repeatedly create a special file which is nothing more than a recursive directory listing stating with level 1 through level 4 and no further.  There are plenty of files and folders beneath level 4 and everything I try keeps going down too far.  Several months back I asked the question differently and was sent to a program which works but was almost too complicated.
Then out of the blue someone posted a way to do this through Powershell that was about as simple as it gets but for the life of me I cannot find it.  It almost seems like it was similar to the UNIX DU command but it gave directory names instead of size.   It was a one line batch file run under powershell is the best I can remember.  Best of all, the listing gave each folder in a complete path showing all four levels.  If anyone has any ideas of where to find such I would appreciate it.  I'm still looking and if I find it I will answer my own question in case it might help someone else one day

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General Software Discussion / Directory of folders inside a folder limited by depth showing complete path

« on: September 25, 2013, 07:43 PM »

I know this has got to be a simple thing.  Somehow I got involved in running a power-shell batch file to create this list but unfortunately I can no longer finds it.
It seems to me that something like dir *. /s was how it was once done the only problem is I need it to stop after 2 levels, maybe 3.  but no more than 4.
Is there a way to limit the depth of the replies to a given number of levels?  If there were, that simple dir command would be all I need.  Any info appreciated.
the complete path part would be nice but not absolutely necessary.

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General Software Discussion / Need a simple chat system for small website prefer to host internally no frills

« on: September 24, 2013, 10:27 PM »

I am trying to find something that could be used to allow up to 5 or 6 people to carry on simple conversations while they are all logged into the same site.  I have seen and tried so many only to find that in the end, they all are too complicated to be used for what is needed. 
No smileys no nothing but text.  Best example I can think of is 5 people looking at a group of photos on a webpage and discussing the merits of each. 
I could give up a strip of space at the side which would allow for simple conversations but that is all I need.  nothing more. 

The biggest problem is that this is a very minor need but one which was requested.  It may not get used much but when it is used, it will be appreciated by those who use it.  I have considered linking to an outside service to provide the chat-function if necessary but would rather keep it all in house if possible.  In the long ago days of BBS systems this was not such an uncommon thing to have but now most chat setups are anything BUT simple. two people typing on the same sheet of paper is about as complicated as I need. :)
 
This is a project I started on about this time last year, made some progress, got sidetracked on other issues, and never finished. Now it is a topic of interest again.  It seems that the best I was able to find back then was some kind of "Community BBS" or .. The name is something I just do not remember but it was a donation supported program of some kind.  Thanks for any suggestions  And someone Please!  Tell me if I put this in the wrong place :) I have a feeling maybe it should be posted elsewhere.

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Living Room / Extremely Simple chat app for an HTML/PHP website

« on: September 24, 2013, 10:23 PM »

I am trying to find something that could be used to allow up to 5 or 6 people to carry on simple conversations while they are all logged into the same site.  I have seen and tried so many only to find that in the end, they all are too complicated to be used for what is needed.  
No smileys no nothing but text.  Best example I can think of is 5 people looking at a group of photos on a webpage and discussing the merits of each.  
I could give up a strip of space at the side which would allow for simple conversations but that is all I need.  nothing more.  

The biggest problem is that this is a very minor need but one which was requested.  It may not get used much but when it is used, it will be appreciated by those who use it.  I have considered linking to an outside service to provide the chat-function if necessary but would rather keep it all in house if possible.  In the long ago days of BBS systems this was not such an uncommon thing to have but now most chat setups are anything BUT simple. two people typing on the same sheet of paper is about as complicated as I need.
  
This is a project I started on about this time last year, made some progress, got sidetracked on other issues, and never finished. Now it is a topic of interest again.  It seems that the best I was able to find back then was some kind of "Community BBS" or .. The name is something I just do not remember but it was a donation supported program of some kind.  Thanks for any suggestions  And someone Please!  Tell me if I put this in the wrong place I have a feeling maybe it should be posted elsewhere.

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Post New Requests Here / HTML or ?? script for list display on website with transition effects

« on: September 07, 2013, 10:14 PM »

I need a way to display a list of maybe 100 names.  I have tried quite a few and the best seem to be using FLASH but most are for creating an entire website while I just need a small window of maybe 30PX high by 400px wide with a script to read from a text file list of names and display them in the window.  The display effect would be nice if it could vary which is why using FLASH was so tempting as there are multiple commercial programs to do exactly that in a slideshow of photos.  And I may have to resort to creating jpegs of the names in order to achieve what I need for transitioning. 
It just seems there should be a simpler way to do it.  Anything unique would work. 
I had thought of using a "ripple" effect like a wave moving across the window that changed one name to the next but... I do not know how to create that.
If anyone could even point me in the right direction I would greatly appreciate it

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DC Website Help and Extras / FLASH HELP ! Stuck inside and cant get out

« on: September 03, 2013, 09:39 PM »

To those who know how, this is going to sound like a stupid question.  I have a website that is written in all html with a little JS.
A decision was made to toss in a FLASH section that displays photos.  I was able to get this done with the appropriate software.
The problem is, I cannot for the life of me figure out what to do to STOP the movie.  Once the viewer enters
that flash photo room, they can shift between albums of photos but nothing I have tried allows them to exit
back to the website.  I have been able to kill the whole thing but no graceful exit back to the page they
entered from.
The entry is via  <a href> to the proper "flash.html" file.  Once in there, everything works fine (I guess) at least it looks like I want it to.
But I know nothing about Flash in general.  I have tried editing the flash.html section and gotten nowhere.  <a href> back to index.html wont work
as it usually does from other pages.  I understand that inside the "Flash world" there are different rules and fs:command (quit)   Maybe?  I don't know why the people who made the software that created the flash module did
not say upfront "some experience required"    .  I need to give my viewer the option to exit is all and it needs to exit back to index.html.
PS:  I am NOT a Flash programmer   Thanks for any help

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Post New Requests Here / Simple Chat module in HTML or PHP for one page on a website

« on: July 25, 2013, 02:09 AM »

I have tried so many from the web (free chats) I have lost count.  They all have more than I need and usually link to outside sites for the chat files to be stored.  I need the whole thing to be self contained.  and I have plenty of room for it.  The comments need to be a running file that ends about 2 weeks after it starts.  I need to save that chats when I close the site.

I have enough room to add a few lines at bottom of page but due to the amount of data displayed,  I have no space to run a box down the side but I he entire bottom of page from edge to edge and about 10 lines up an down can be used for the Box.

There are maybe 10 users total who can see the page, they have to be on a list to log in and 15 is the limit.  Most users never read more than 3 or four of the reviews.  I have been asked to provide a small chat window to allow the people logged in to chat about the documents on it  

The chat would allow "Joe" to chat with "Mary" (example)"Joe:  Mary, I like John Dawson what do you think?"  Then Mary can reply.  "Mary:  not bad but I have him at number two position."
A display at top of page would be a list of all viewers showing red when not logged in and green if logged it,

This is the basic concept.  This mini-site is hosted on a Apache/php/All in one like WAMP.
I am not sure I would have much more to add.  That is all it needs to be.  I can assigned a separate SQL file if needed for the chat.
 Any suggestions appreciated.  I hope this end up being a simple java-type code that I can indert where I want it to appear on the page.

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Living Room / Problem with merging folders

« on: May 31, 2013, 04:34 PM »

This is more like a nuisance and could be that I just don't know the right way to do this.   I have several backup drives that contain folders with hundreds of files in each.  Most are identical as they are just dated backups done 3 months apart. 

With the huge increase in drive size I have been asked to put all the contents together onto a single drive. Copying folder A on a backup drive into the folder A on the Main drive.  Normally, I get the message that the file already exists do I want to overwrite or skip.  Since the files are identical I could just say overwrite and let it run.  But it takes a LOT longer to do that than to say skip.  Then when done delete the folder, files and all from the backup drive But there are many copies of these backups so I have to do this until all the folders are only on the one main drive, then make a single backup.

I was wondering if there is a command line switch that would say IF the file already exists on the target drive then delete it from the one you are copying from saving me having to go back and delete all these folders and files. 

Something that would >copy from A to B and if the file is already on B then delete it from A. 

Thanks .. I will probably feel foolish when someone tells me that is a normal  command line switch

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Coding Snack Guidelines / Looks like I still dont have a final solution for a custom directory list :(

« on: April 30, 2013, 12:24 PM »

dir /s /on /b /a:d > list.txt

This one is close, about as close as I have come.
the output though is "too complete" as I only need one line for each folder or better stated
I need one line showing the first occurrence of the file index.php, then skipping to the next subdirectory and listing the same thing there.

I convert these to web-links by reversing the "\" to "/" and replacing the c:\"path"\subdirectory\index.php with "http://www."/subdirectory/index.php in notepad.

I had tried a program someone suggested here and thought it was working but it turned out not to be quite what I needed.
The "dir" command with the listed switches almost did it, but it lists every subdirectory under the main one.

It would almost be easiest to just list all directories and going just 1 level deep.  Example Order: A, Aa, Ac, Ad, Ae,   B, Ba, Bb, Bc, Bd  D, Da,Db,Dc  etc.  Some may have  10 projects, some only 1. 
If I copuld even get this list I could still replace the front end of each and even add the necessary text "index.php" to the end.

This  is to create a clickable list of links that open webpages created by different people all stored on one main website.  Only the site owner can enter at the top level.  The others each have their own named folder containing all their projects.  Each project can be entered directly via the  "www.path/index.php". 

Several program I tried did TOO much, some not enough or had no easy way to save output as a text or preferably Word file (so the links would already be active)

Nothing fancy, just a quick list of clickable links and it seems I should be able to do it with the dir > command if I could just get the switches in the right order.  It is important that it not continue to list ALL the index.php files in each site as there are more than one.  The First one is the entry point.
the rest, I end up having to delete until it reaches the next subdirectory/first index.php file.  Etc.

Thanks for anyone knowing where to add the text to show only the first occurrence of that file.
OR  listing all the namedirs/subdirs but no further. 

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Developer's Corner / Automated Conduit and Entrusted Toolbar Removal Needed

« on: April 28, 2013, 05:06 PM »

This may not belong here, If not, could someone please move it to the right forum please.

A recent episode of dealing with Conduit and the Entrusted toolbar left me spending hours of time trying to tease out the key to the absolute removal of this "Thing".  I cannot believe that Conduit is still not considered Malware but apparently it gets a pass in some way.  Malwarebytes and all the usual "helpful tools" did their best and still could not find the last piece which left me with a "rundll" error  every time I used Right click.  even after I thought the "bug" itself had been removed.
By turning on the "show system files"  (I had already turned on show hidden files) I finally found the last piece hiding as "counter.dat" in the Temporary Internet Files folder.  Even then, I had to take ownership of it to get rid of it.   This after I had run every malware /virus remover I could find.  I was wondering if anyone else had run across this issue and/or anything similar and could offer a better way to search for and remove objects like that.  
Even Avira's Forum seemed to be "try this, if that doesn't work. try that" so I don't know if I was just lucky  or worse  if I just think I am rid of it.  The counter.dat file said it could not be deleted as "No one was the owner" which is why I had to take ownership to remove it.  And it only showed up after setting to see "system files".  

I wanted to add that after removal of this file, the system immediately began to function properly.  Before removal, you never knew what might happen.  I had already removed at least 20 different places where the entry for a "Search protector(?)" (I cannot for certain remember the last word after "search" But I kept notes and will edit this as soon as I can get to them) that appeared in the registry and in Windows 7 subfolders and multiple other places.  All of these had been create by this one piece of Malware that came from downloading a "Free" Scan to file" utility found on a Google Search.  I took several days of effort with a lot of "false" successes which is why I am not certain even now.  Most people seemed to be in favor of the "format and reload" routine with many even cleaning the MBR as well.  Considering the time factor, normally, so would I. 
It has been a week now so maybe I won the battle.  But it shouldn't be that hard for something that apparently isn't even considered a threat by the AV companies.  The fact it make Bing your Default Home page on every browser is also puzzling  If I ever see it again, I probably will also "format and reload" but the fact it used a system file with "no owner" I thought odd enough that maybe there would be a way to search for that.
(I should also add that the normal "net user administrator /active:yes" activation would say there was no such user.  So the elevated command prompt was all I had to work with)