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General Software Discussion / Nifty FREE Utility to do almost anything to a filename in Windows

« on: June 17, 2015, 05:32 PM »

I get so many pieces of great software from everyone here that I wanted to contribute a link to a program that I think has got to fill a very unique need for anyone using Windows.  I am always trying to figure out how to script various functions that were never intended to be done with Windows and unless I load GAWK of GNU or some other better software for file manipulation there never seems to be a way to do these things in Windows.
After many hours of digging though all the places i have never heard of before I ran across this little GEM of a tool called 1-4aRename and thought i  would post the link herein case it might be of use to others.
My need was to be able to truncate all filenames in a folder by 12 characters without chopping off the extension.  This was due to a file creation setup in a backup utility where they did not provide for any other alternatives.  The 12 characters (which i did not need and were causing a problem with further processing) i just needed to chop off the end of the name.  
After testing at least a dozen versions of awk, sed, (and even rename which failed for some reason) I ran across this tool and was amazed to see that it not only worked as needed but would allow you to preview the changes before they were applied as well as undoing them afterward.

This may be something only someone like me would ever need but the utility is Free, has no strings attached (that I could find), included no junk-ware or other trash and just worked perfectly.
If you get it, be sure to try the advanced mode (click F2) as that is when things got really amazing.
I hope it is of use to someone else as well.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Maxthon Browser Users: Maybe one of you has already solved this

« on: June 16, 2015, 06:24 PM »

Wow Talk about overload.  If i can't find the answer here somewhere then it does not exist!
Shades, i also saw your Zotero and after I actually got 4WD's Paste trick to work, i found out that what MAXTHON copies as the URL is a little TOO specific.
Not only that, but it also cannot always be modified to even get me back to the ballpark of where the file came from (like in cases where it came from zdnet or similar).
It is SO specific that i almost wonder what the point was in putting the option thee as what is gives is more like a Virtual-Link to the file itself.  It has no use other than as a direct reference to that one point and you are probably correct in that it wont be at that exact location maybe even as soon as the first version upgrade.
Still, that was WELL worth the "Ride" as i found all kinds of things that NOW i need to make those notes about why i found them and what is there and HOW to get back

The more i thought about the "Wiki" thing the better  it sounded but that went too far over my head to figure out.  I can see where ti would be extremely handy to anyone being able to hover over a filename on a site and see the "wiki" for that file would probably save me downloading a bunch of stuff that isn't even what it appears to be at first glance.  And since it would only appear as a pop-out display when hovering over the filename itself, it would not take up any room on the page hosting the file.  I just have to figure out how to edit that window that opens when you hover over a file and see if it can be made big enough to hold enough information to matter. 

This was a Fun Excursion and i more than appreciate all the input from everyone! 

Many Thanks to everyone 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Maxthon Browser Users: Maybe one of you has already solved this

« on: June 16, 2015, 12:33 AM »

I was just coming back to apologize.  I THOUGHT I did but I had not.
I had put it under Windows. I had even later that it needed to be in C:\Scripts and thought i copied it there (at least Paste.exe) but when I looked...Lo and behold Paste was not there.  By then I had concluded that everything should be in that folder anyway so I moved it all to c:\scripts and..
MEA CULPA mi Amigo!  Perfecto again!  it works as i would expect it to.  Point to the file you just downloaded, right click and choose your nifty add in and it DOES create a shortcut SO WELL that it it starts another download if not careful!
The "copy" in Maxthon is the "direct-link" to the actual download itself rather than just the main website (which is fine at least it gets me back to where it came from)

And all this other neat stuff you dredged up from God Knows where about Alternate Streams and such is exactly the kind of thing to drive someone NUTS over a rainy weekend.  I feel sure i will get my chance,

Needless to say:  My apologies. your stuff always works    I just did not read closely enough the paths involved.

All but myself have hit the hay and I am about to as well but tomorrow i should have loads of fun with Alternate Streams of Reality or...
something similar.  Just the little i read by the references you sent was enough to give one pause to think what all else might be hidden between all those ones and zeros.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Maxthon Browser Users: Maybe one of you has already solved this

« on: June 15, 2015, 11:54 PM »

You did edit it to reflect any path changes you made, right?
Works fine here, (even with files with spaces which I forget about most of the time).

Maybe i am thinking about this wrong.  If i go to downloads folder and right click in empty space the option is not showing.
If i point to the file i downloaded and then right click i see the option but when i choose it nothing happens.
If i create an empty shortcut ..of course that just disappears as invalid.
If I create a Good shortcut manually and put something in it so it will stay, this time the new paste as URL option is not even there.
I am a little unsure about what to expect but if it should be creating a .url file using the data held in the clipboard as the primary part of the name and .url as the extension, that isn't happening.  As I noted, the option to paste as URL is only showing IF I click on an existing file as though i was going to change the file's name or type and the only type it will not even show up at all on is if i choose a pre-existing URL.

Am I misunderstanding that it should be working by simply clicking on the folder or inside the folder to create the url?
I am not good at this but it appears that the right click option is working in context as related to the "shell" for editing a file rather than creating one?  Maybe I am not saying that right but it shows as an option >only< if i am selecting another file to right click on.  If i right click on the "download directory" it is not in the command options.  If i right click in empty space inside the Downloads folder, it does not show either.  I must right click while pointing at a file in order to have the option show up which, if it did work, would be in the same group of commands as if i wanted to rename, delete or change the chosen file itself in some way.
Clicking it at that point, however, does not appear to do anything at any location i can see although it could be somewhere else on the system

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General Software Discussion / Re: Maxthon Browser Users: Maybe one of you has already solved this

« on: June 15, 2015, 11:31 PM »

Almost........ I had to try it.  Streams is close.  Maybe close enough.  Never even heard of it.  Interesting stuff
But there has to be a native windows way to edit the "info-text" pop-ups that come up when you hover over a filename in Explorer.
So far, i can see at least 3 lines showing file size and other stuff.  There hs to be a place that controls what is displayed and where it comes from.  Some had 4 lines so i also know it is variable.
And on Media files you see almost a whole page full of info about authors bit rates etc.  
But you are on a Roll tonight!    Thanks for the "whudda thot"  that?
What did I do wrong on the URL paste?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Maxthon Browser Users: Maybe one of you has already solved this

« on: June 15, 2015, 11:19 PM »

AHH!  Soooo Close!
But the copied URL is http://seedling.dcme...mixtape_11038105.zip
This was just a test.  I emptied my DL folder so nothing in it, then dl'ed just the one file i was hoping (but not expecting   ) that it would be on full auto and i would find the mixtape file along with the url to get back to it inthe downloads folder just by clicking copy url, then clicking download and save.
But even if i go to the downloads folder, while i do have the right click option to past clip to url shortcut But-- if i right click the file, doing this makes nothing for me   I was so hopeful ... And it is probably something i did wrong.
The registry edit went fine and paste is in the windows folder.
As long as you got that far dont suppose you could make a litle more magic and bend this hole procedure into the act of clicking download?  If the URL in in the clipboard, dont suppose there is a way to make it link up with the clicking of the download button?

    Why not ask for the stars if you are already to the Moon.??  Seriously that was some quick reg hacking.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Maxthon Browser Users: Maybe one of you has already solved this

« on: June 15, 2015, 10:46 PM »

>>>ADDED<<  Alright 4wd.  You popped in just as I posted this and i just read your posts.
Now i have to try that too 
So you might as well give the Whole Enchilada a Whirl.  A whole new system.  File-Wiki's that stay attached to the files they comment on.
<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>
I just had my daughter toss in her 2 cents worth and it added another whole level of possibilities to this.
While this is far beyond my capabilities, perhaps one of you can see a way for this to happen.  The results would be more like a permanent "tag" that would be attached to the file just as any picture file etc only this would be the same for program files.  
The way her input changed things was that I should be making these comments and URL links a permanent "TAG" entry for the file.  One that could be seen and used by others.  Sort of like a "Wikipedia" entry for the program or file it is attached to. A short description of what it does as well as some sort of grading system (ie: 5 star etc) and perhaps even a Likes and Dis Likes vote.  This way if I shared the file with someone else they could benefit from the inputs of everyone else who had handled it.
I think that is great but it is also far more than I can manage.  But it does give another viewpoint on things.  I am sure all of us have downloaded files from sites where it sure would be nice to be able to see that previous handlers of the file had given it a high rating or made comments such as Beware of added Crapware.   These are the things you do see in comments where you go to get the file to start with but those comments don't STAY with the downloaded file and are often forgotten when you run it months later
This is the kind of thing that perhaps even DC would benefit from if this was done in such a way as to make it an
"added feature" of the file structure.  Something you would not see or even know was there unless you had the proper application running to allow you to view this mini-"FileWiki" on your own system any time you viewed your downloads.
My daughter thinks bigger than i do, and i would still settle for the pop up URL if it was click able.  I can see info about every file that pops out when you hover over the file but none of it is interactive (ie: clickable) and i have not found a way to modify what is displayed though i am sure it is something simple,  I thought I would toss her added idea out there before i started trying to work with both of your suggestions.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Maxthon Browser Users: Maybe one of you has already solved this

« on: June 15, 2015, 07:15 PM »

You guys are great!  I have not been able to check back in but both of you seem to have some excellent methods in mind.
Don't get me wrong, it isn't that it is "too many clicks" or anything like that, it was a matter of "how it should be" and it isn't.  I have thousands of files in storage that i may never look at again but at one time, I thought they would be useful for some reason.  Usually, just gong back to where i found them is enough to jog my memory.  That was the original intent.  A download manager requires me to keep the files all in the same location as they were when the manager indexed them which over the years would not be the case,
While I COULD write up a brief note about where i got it and why and zip that up with the file, then i have to unzip he bunch to read the notes. 
Kind of like browsing through all the titles on Audible audiobooks and seeing an author i like i can then play a part of the book as a sample to see if it is interesting.
I started thinking how nice it would be to be able to "browse" through all those files and see a "synopsis" of the file in a "pop open" window that would display like a tool-tip when i hovered over the file.
To do this, i would need to be able to store just a small amount of data somewhere that would not mess up the file itself.  That was when i found "tags".  The problem was, for reasons I cannot discern,
They only work on video and audio files.  They are "there" on all files and usually empty.  Windows even offers to remove them (in cases where they can be removed) so i started looking for how they could be written to in the first place.  If a "tag" named URL were to have the actual URL of the file and one called description could hold a sentence about what i go it for.
I was looking for a way to make finding and using files that were located sometimes years before and now are only a zip file in a huge archive.  No references as to why it was put there or where it came from without opening the zip to see.  Plus those tags are searchable with windows so i could find those i might have referenced as "executable editors" or ?? but at least i could have a way to look for more than a file name which in some cases is just "setup.zip"
I really appreciate your efforts and perhaps I am the only one who thinks OLD "stuff" would ever be of use in a NEW WORLD anyway ??

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General Software Discussion / Re: Maxthon Browser Users: Maybe one of you has already solved this

« on: June 13, 2015, 03:33 PM »

OK,milesahead, I give up.  I will just hope you have a different view on this problem as nothing i can find even gets close to the need.
After my last comments on your post, i started thinking again about why i could not simply do what i said i needed.  I knew i had tried this before and while i never found anything that worked, it always seemed that it was just around the corner.
Because Maxthon makes it so easy to first click to copy the URL, then click to download the file, the URL is still held in the clipboard SO if i could only do a right click on the downloaded file and add that info the file itself that would solve everything and keep the directory nice and tidy.
Problem is, i cannot find a program that can add a "property" to a ZIP file.  Or for that matter to any file other than music or video.  I can display many properties but cannot edit any of them.  Nor can i add one of my own. 
After trying out 20 different utilities I now have so many right click options i need to clean the clock on most but not one of them can so something as simple as add a property called "URL" and paste in the info in the clipboard.  Or even use the clipboard info to fill i a preexisting field like "description"
I have to wait for a more adept hacker than i to figure this one out. 
I still cant believe that this is not already a built in option with some program.
All the parts are there, just no way to assemble them.

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Living Room / Re: MBAM scans freeze computer

« on: June 13, 2015, 02:39 PM »

My "2 cents worth" only because :
1:  I LOVE MBAM.  It has saved me many times.
and
2:  I HATE their tech support

I have had to try all kinds of settings to get things to work as needed and one of their worst offenders (imho) is their Malicious Website detection.
There are 3 places (I think) where i have made changes to the defaults
The 1st  is where it runs that modules under detection and prevention
The 2nd is un-check the enable it in advanced setting where it runs at start up
The 3nd is to put a check in reduce priority of scanning also in advanced

While I fully agree tht this reduces the effectiveness of the program, maybe the problem is that when running both MBAM as well as AVAST or any other good AV program, between the two of them, it is "overkill"?

I asked this question on the boar/forum but never got a reply

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General Software Discussion / Re: Maxthon Browser Users: Maybe one of you has already solved this

« on: June 13, 2015, 02:08 PM »

Thanks MilesAhead, I will try one of those.
When I saw your comment, I was a little bit DeJaVu as I swear i had just run across your site (or seen the name in some way) during a search for some settings on a new driver from Intel for my NIC. < blog.workinghardinit.work/tag/10gbps>
Scaling up to 10GBPS already?  I can hardly wait for it to be the norm.

I had previously considered using one of the "properties" options in the downloaded file itself but i ran into issues finding a workable program that could do this.  Most of those that did worked with nothing but Music or Video files.  Even if it did, the information would be something i could only "see" but not access as a link.  So I had to pass on a solution that would have made it an all-in-one fix.

Would be nice if that was an option.  Maybe a right click to access a specific property of a file (where i could place the URL) rather than left click to run the default application for that file type. Now That would be a slick package!

Looks like your comment explorer does do almost exactly this.  Where is the comment actually stored?  Other than the shift-F11 is there another location to find the info such that it would be a click-able URL?  Or maybe if it could display on hover?  >>    Just kidding i am sure that would be a huge mod to the windows explorer setup<<

Worked very well though and thanks for that.  I will now try the Treepad option but your AHK setup beat having to create shortcuts.  Although... since you wrote the script for the comments in ahk suppose it would be possible to create the "new shortcut" the same way?  then I could paste the url into the shortcut path and be done with it since the shortcut automatically names itself as the path entered unless you chose to change it.?

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General Software Discussion / Maxthon Browser Users: Maybe one of you has already solved this

« on: June 13, 2015, 01:40 AM »

For a long time now I have been looking for a way to save the URL to the sites where I download from.  A simple way to be able to go back to the site where I found each app or Program I downloaded.  Just the written text in a TX file would do but an active URL shortcut would be even better.
One day I noticed that Maxthon has the option to copy the target URL at the time I save the download which would be a perfect solution.  Except they did not complete the task.  After i click Save and the download finishes i still have to navigate to the downloads folder, open a text file, (or create a new shortcut) name it as the name of the download and paste the contents of the clipboard into it and save the results.
The end result is exactly what I needed but it takes so many steps to do something that it seems should be a part of the setup.  What is the point in copying the URL if I am not going to save it somewhere?  Most logically in the downloads folder with the name of the download I got from that URL.   If i could change the layout such that the URL is saved to a Shortcut instead if a text file this would probably work.
I wrote to the developers at Maxthon but go no reply so far.  I wonder what they intended that Save URL to be for if not what I need?  Anyway, since it saves to clipboard, if there is a way to add the rest of the process into the download script it would sure be nice.
So far I have not found the name of the variable that holds that info nor a way to add a couple of steps into their download script but I assume it is there somewhere in their developer modules?
Has  anyone here played with customization of their browser?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Dumb question but maybe somebody knows how. Probably a form of Sync.

« on: June 08, 2015, 07:03 AM »

What I DO have is a 2.5" IDE enclosure that I might be able to modify for a 3.5" drive.  
On my side a tool that I NEVER believed I would ever use is my WORMHOLE switch from by j5create. It sat sealed up for probably 2 months before I ever even tried it.

Claimed to have 5 GBPS data transfer rate and don't have to install anything other than the drivers that are built into the ends od the cable   The first time I used it I swear I thought it was some kind of trick.  Fastest file transfer I have ever seen: Even drive to drive transfer!    Won't be without one again!

REQUESTS from all of you who have been so helpful on this:

I have been looking for the fix to the issue that 4WD caught with the "quote marks" and I am sure I have seen one somewhere.  it is a patch or setting or something that makes ALL Quotes be the RIGHT quotes for someone who works on scripts not for people typing letters.  I am not sure but it may be a windows thing where you tell it not to use "smart-quotes" anywhere.  I never want to have to deal with the DUMB QUOTES again.  That was too much.

I also need ways to modify the specs on this nifty "junk cleaner" script.  What is the right way to tell it to look for all files ending in (for example)  .tmp"???"   

For this type of Archive I would love to search for/review/(and probably delete) all the ".exe" or ".com" files.  I have found during my transfers that there are quite a few and some are being scanned and removed by MalwareBytes or AVAST anyway.  OLD viruses and Malware that were, at the time, not in the database but are now.

And there are other extensions that if  could find them ALL just like I am finding the zero length files and have the option of removing them ALL   Or I could change the first echo command to "xcopy" so I could copy them to elsewhere before I ran the DEL version to get rid of them.

If I had been doing these from the start I hate to think how many junk files I now have in my nice clean 5TB Complete Documents Archive.

I need to come up with  list of "JUNK" like that and create a statement to cover each.  Another is those files created by WORD with the " ~ " as the first character to be a "ghost" copy of the file you are working on. 

Honestly, I have seen some where it looks like the people copied everything on their hard drive  including the entire Windows folder plus ProgramfilesX86 etc.  (Not many Thank God). 

The purpose of this whole effort is to create a massive database of every DOCUMENT type doesn't matter who wrote it.  I don't want to get too specific but almost anything that isn't a document is not even supposed to be here.  I have been making good use of a program called "Everything"  from the people at "Voidtools" as it is the absolute fastest "search and find" utility I have ever seen.  Finding all the ".exe" and removing them.

Still, I like the current scripted setup more because it allows me to have a list of all the files I moved or got rid of and what I did with (  to  )  them.

Thanks for all the input this has been an extremely helpful thread.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Dumb question but maybe somebody knows how. Probably a form of Sync.

« on: June 07, 2015, 01:34 AM »

OMG!  I just opened the last box of drives anbd they are ALL IDE.  I am not sure i even havd a bvoard with an IDE plug.  Nothing but fun around here.  Other day one guy comes up with an old Okidata (OLD-Old) printer and asks me why his USB can't work on it.  This was NOT the model that had both. Wanted an adapter for a USB to ..SERIAL..  Where in the heck he found the Printer itself I have no idea  I have not seen a serial printer since..  I think i was watching the Fonz on Happy Days?


I adapted it right to the trash bin.  Adapter wold cost at least 10 bucks IF one exists which is more than the printer would be worth IF it worked and it probably didn't.  This stuff is so old the salvation army wont take it.

That is why they want me to get these files off before there IS no more IDE even.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Dumb question but maybe somebody knows how. Probably a form of Sync.

« on: June 07, 2015, 01:24 AM »

 

WHY OH WHY!!!

    WHY didn't I see that
I have run into thAT at least once before and recently i have noticed that on some of my office programs the quotes don't tilt the right way either

also did you know spell-check refuses to offer "don't" and an option to a misspelled DON'T no matter how wrong you do it that is never EVER offered as an option.
Word and Outlook have a "think" about "you and "Your" and other variations like they want to get rid of the word altogether

it's gonna be a big World O' WE!   Microsoft's Big Huggy World.

If ONLY they could do something about the blasted quote marks

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General Software Discussion / Re: Dumb question but maybe somebody knows how. Probably a form of Sync.

« on: June 04, 2015, 07:02 PM »

Darn Shades:  That is "slick:.  
It created the bat perfect but it still won't delete the files.  Even if I run the bat as admin.   I have no idea why it wont work but I still get that message like I was getting on mine about the "structure or path" not being right.  I thought it might be the quotes but yours has the quotes
"The filename, directory name or volume label syntax is incorrect"  Looks fine to me.
I ran a test of it on my desktop just to grab a  zero length files I knew was there.
It made the bat with this statement:
DEL /F /Q “C:\Users\ASA4\Desktop\DEC 16th 23 sync users somebody not there yet.txt”  
This is a file I can see and it is zero length.  But I still get the error and it is stil there.  
I can right click and choose delete and POOF
I LIKE the "WAY" you did it though.  Each statement is a standalone command.

Your "deletezerobvte.bat" creator worked a charm and I have never thought of doing it like that before.
I am going to save that logic for future use!  I could rewrite to make the del command into any command needed to run on multiple files found by using a similar logic tree.

I Wish I knew why it wont delete the files but even if I copy the del command statement verbatim and paste to a command prompt,  I get the same error.  Got to be something minor.
And minor it is but...
for some reason their is an odd character created in from of the C:\  so the actual delete line in the batch file says "DEL /F /Q    (here there appears a character that looks like a small letter o with the ^ above it)     then the normal c:\archives\etc etc.  the rest of the normal path.  The thing is the quote marks are gone.  I can only see this if I remove the "@echo off" so I can watch what is happening.  Is a quote mark one of those characters you have to escape from twice in a batch file like the >> and double %?

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General Software Discussion / Re: A one line Dirt Simple way to Compare and delete one of a pair of equal Folders

« on: June 01, 2015, 11:12 PM »

Oh well/  Ask and ye shall receive. 
 It was just a matter or rephrasing my search. 
TGRMN.com has an excellent tool thatdoes exactly what i need in both Free and Pro called 'Vice Versa'.  I have heard of it but never got around to trying it.  It has the exact parameters needed for this and most other combinations I have needed.
If anyone out there hasn't tried it and needs anything like it, I would give it high marks for OutOfTheBox usability
No instructions required (but I am sure as always it works even better after reading the manual

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General Software Discussion / A one line Dirt Simple way to Compare and delete one of a pair of equal Folders

« on: June 01, 2015, 10:45 PM »

This job is TOO simple for most Duplicate finders.
Just compare the size of folders in two directories that have the same name. "The Objective" is to delete the folders in Directory "A" if the same folder i Directory B is the same size.

Any "Duplicate Finder" can do this but they all require too much time to build indexes of filenames.  I am 99% sure that every folder IS a duplicate.  I only need to be certain that it is (verified by size) before I delete them from Directory "A"
By hand:  Check to see if a folder in Directory A has the same name as a folder in Directory B.  and if they are the same size.  If those two conditions are met I delete the folder from Directory "A".

If there is no folder by the same name in List B OR if the names are the same but properties show different sizes, then skip that one and g to the next folder in Directory A.  The odd few I will double check by hand at the end.

These are very long directory lists and the duplicate finders I tried took so long to just scan and index the filenames (which is not necessary for this task) that I think they have stopped working.  Also, if I could create a list of all the confirmed deleted folders that would be nice too but not required.  In the end, I hope to reformat ALL of Drive A and move on to combining Drive B and Drive C until they are all one copy of each file all in just one drive.

If i could get this to work just like the find and delete Zero length files script I posted the other day I would be very happy   I am still tinkering with getting 4WD'S test for the old Windows encryptions files to clean up the other misfits.  Doing this by hand from a printed directory isn't so bad but if there is a way to automate it, why not?


As usual, if I only had to do this once, i would not even ask, it would be easier to just plod through them by hand.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Batch PDF printing

« on: May 29, 2015, 11:43 PM »

I guess I am lost too.  Once I install Bullzip, it is just like another regular printer.   If i make the "Bullzip-pdf" my "default printer" I can set any program I want to print as many copies as i want even with quickprint.
As long as you turn off the "open file after printing" option it rolls them off as fast as they can be stored. 

Like Tomos said I guess I don't understand what is needed?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Dumb question but maybe somebody knows how. Probably a form of Sync.

« on: May 29, 2015, 11:27 PM »

Sorry Tomos:  Thought i had put it with this question.  It has been a LOOONG week.  I had put it on another thread.
But repeated here just in case.  I gwet so much help from everyone maybe this is will be of some use to some other poor sucker like me who hired on to work with (FOR!!) a bunch of techno-nit-wits.
Still barely qualifies as script but darn sure does the job for FINDing them.  Getting Rid of them .. well I had issues there as it finds and stores complete paths including spaces in the file path.  When I tried other variations using the same logic to DELETE them i can see what why it stopped by looking at what it found.  a whole list of name as this:
      "C:\etc\etc\and you see\spaces in the way\zerolengthfile.txt."  And many more like it. 
(probably due to the same nit who multileveled her backups)  I got a lot of invalid path etc.  Once i found them and had the list of where they were most were in the same places anyway. 
Not too hard to remove but.. if this could have done the delete too...
i could have created a list of the filenames that were getting deleted AND delete them in one swoop.  Then add in 4WD's cipher and...all the Old encrypts would be gone as well
  As long as i don't end up wiping out the entire windows folder i should be OK   Maybe?

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1. @echo off
2.    for /r %%F in (*) do if %%~zF==0 echo “%%F” >> zerobytefiles.txt

ps:  change the double % to single % if running from prompt.   Also the >> I am chicken and run from batch.
So I have some small chance of stopping if major bad things happen.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Dumb question but maybe somebody knows how. Probably a form of Sync.

« on: May 29, 2015, 07:46 PM »

Tomos.  I guess it is too small to even call a script .  More like a complicated command line but it still did the job and surprised the heck out of me when it ran
I also just figured out WHY all the problems on these backups.  Some nit-wit has been putting each sequential run inside the folder of the previous run instead of Overwriting the older files, it made whole new copies of them in another sub folder.
I also know who it was    but that is another story.  They will find ourt soon enough.
This is why things were getting exponentially out of hand.  If I had not found this I wonder how deep they could have gone before something crashed?  Or maybe windows would just error out on too deep to copy?  All these drives are full of multiple duplicates . well sort of dupliates.  ONE of them wil be the newest of every file and it should be in be deepest sub-folder.
Maybe i will just leave them,  Extra backups.

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Living Room / Re: Microsoft Surface Pro 3 8GB I7 256GB SSD

« on: May 28, 2015, 11:09 PM »

I agree Superboyac.
I would buy one if i had the bux.  Only the two owners get those babies.
I wonder how long before MS will push Windows 10 onto them?  I have started noticing that most of the Windows page-intros are already showing Windows 10 like it is already out here for real.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Processes and/or folders to exclude from malware scanners for Exchange email

« on: May 28, 2015, 11:06 PM »

Nope.  Checked the logs.  I did find out their techs refuse to help people because this apparently is only noticed by businesses (those running exchange server) and the Malware bytes we bought and paid for was only Premier./  The best they had (i thought)  but they say it is Not for use in businesses.  (This part is probably true, either way thug, we paid for it so i would have thought they would be polite about it but apparently this (being polite) is not in great supply wherever they are located.

They would rather toss you out of the "Forum" which is all the tech support you get. I am thinking about maybe SuperAntiSpyware but... It is so hard to tel these days what is real and what is a REAL piece of Junkware itself.
I did not even know they had a business version so I bought what i thought was the most expensive (and therefore the best) they had.

Premier probably IS the "BEST" for capabilities but the Business version must have a lot of "holes" in it to allow the Exchange Servers to keep linked.  It is version 1.79 or so compared to the Premier being version 2.16 or there abouts.

Like all that stuff from REASON SOFTWARE.  Is any of "IT" real?  I have tried all of them and some actually look decent but it is hard to get a "good feeling" about a company that gives away so much stuff.  How can they pay the bills?  And stay in business?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Detect and list all files with windows encryption enabled

« on: May 28, 2015, 10:55 PM »

I SWEAR 4WD where in the heck do you find all this stuff.
I fully expected to get an "Invalid Command" when i typed that but ...It worked.
YU Da Man ..                       As usual.  I hope i can get it to run inside the same recursive scanner.

Thanks for that.  I had been trying out some useful (or not) utilities and after running one of them got a Little "chicken" about using things i could not verify how they worked before using them.

One of these did a great job of cleaning up the system hosting these files.  Including removing All the stored passwords in my browsers which , I admit, are not the most "secure" places to keep them but after a while i kind of forgot they were even there.  And now.. They ARE NOT there for real! Almost could not get back in here.

Anyway, the author gave me fair warning and the utility is 100% great stuff IF you heed the warnings.  Now if I can only find where I put the utility when i downloaded it .    It was called system cleanup or some such and has a thousand options of all kinds

I can now modify my recursive search script to find and remove both zero length files AND any encrypted ones.  I hope there is a way to get the command to differentiate between System encrypted and User encrypted. ( I think <hope?>it is a different algorithm )?

I would not want to " clean my clock " on any normal system files just get rid of old document files that can't be opened anyway.  They got encrypted with the early version of EFS on Server 2003 that makes the names look "green".  The keys for them are long gone and the files need to be gone too as no one can open them now. 

Anyway.  Request was Solved 100%

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General Software Discussion / Re: Processes and/or folders to exclude from malware scanners for Exchange email

« on: May 24, 2015, 08:07 PM »

Thanks 4wd (thought you were on vacation   )
Also thanks to others.  What has really been a pain is that no one wants to "say" what to do.  Not MS, not MBAM, not anyone.  I suppose they all assume that the information could be used by "unfriendly parties".  I am well aware that there is supposedly no need for scanning anything sent through exchange email due to all the .. "stated" extreme scanning the mail goes through on the server itself. 
This is OK by me if true.  I can't see whee scanning could possibly speed up anything and The email transfer is priority one around here. 
I wont swear to it but i think i had already tried to exclude outlook.exe but this still did not fix it.  Because Outlook "re-sync" every 15 seconds, some service is running constantly and i assume that is what MBAM objects to.  (why it stops it).
I admit, i have not done the most obvious thing which would be to run process explorer and see what process it is killing but i believe it is a "side-effect" not intentional because there is never a reported issue   no malicious websites found  no nothing.  Just a failure of the exchange servers to connect.
 
Disabling malicious website testing seems to solve the problem ..and not just for me.  I found this "fix" after a heck of a lot of looking.  It is juts amazing how many people reported this exact same problem on the MBAM forums and got totally blown off.  One excuse or another in some cases but in others they were simply ignored.

And I am sure that component does some good I just don't know what.  Turning it off leave you with a nagging reminder at the bottom of the screen but Outlook is happy.
Some days you just can;t win/