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General Software Discussion / Re: Unstoppable Copier -- freeware that saved my bacon

« Last post by mouser on May 10, 2018, 04:50 PM »

Thanks for that, Robomirror looks useful.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Mini-review: LineByter - Find and Extract Patterns (emails,etc) from Text Files

« Last post by mouser on May 10, 2018, 04:37 PM »

I'll just note that I was a user and big fan of LineByter.. CB lost his source code to it but it is still usable.

Having said that, I have started writing a replacement with similar aims, called Regex Captor: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=45497.0

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Living Room / Re: From the Tinfoil Hat Department - FaceBook Listening?

« Last post by mouser on May 10, 2018, 03:09 PM »

Wait.. Stephen is making sense? When did that start?

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Living Room / Re: My board game recommendations for family holidays

« Last post by mouser on May 10, 2018, 12:54 PM »

Nice!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Unstoppable Copier -- freeware that saved my bacon

« Last post by mouser on May 10, 2018, 12:54 PM »

Interestingly the windows disk scanning/checking functions didn't seem to see anything wrong.. But a handful of files were unreadable due to hardware read failure on the hard disk.  During my recovery attempts sometimes the drive just disconnected itself from the system and disapeared.

In the end I was able to get 99.99% of everything back..   Most of the disk was still working and the files that were corrupt I had backups of -- all but one which had some mail from one account that I had to do some manual work to recover.

All in all, it was pretty painless, but I was reminded of how much worse it could have been.  The experience exposed a couple of holes in my backup plans, and reminded me how important having full drive images are to making recovery from a crash a painless process.  Because of that, I am going to increase the frequency of my full drive backups from once a month to once a week.

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Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread

« Last post by mouser on May 10, 2018, 12:39 AM »

Dog settles court case:

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General Software Discussion / Re: Unstoppable Copier -- freeware that saved my bacon

« Last post by mouser on May 10, 2018, 12:32 AM »

And how do you get the list of files it skipped?

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General Software Discussion / Unstoppable Copier -- freeware that saved my bacon

« Last post by mouser on May 09, 2018, 11:54 PM »

Today I had a hard drive crash.. Not fun.

Turned out that most of the files were still readable, the problem was that the handful among the 100,000 files that were not readable were causing major troubles.. Causing windows to hang when trying to access them, and causing all attempts to backup/image the drive to fail.

These days, looking for "free" software is an utter nightmare.  As most of you know from experience, most "free" software nowadays is basically non-functional trial software whose main job is to trick you and then make you buy the full version after you install a bunch of adware.

Imagine my surprise at finding an amazing piece of real freeware: Unstoppable Copier.


This wonderful savior of a program let me very quickly back a copy of all of the files on the hard drive, SKIPPING over the bad, unreadable ones, and giving me a nice list of the ones it couldn't copy.

It has some functions to try to repeatedly read corrupt files, but I have to admit that my hard drive was not having any of that.  No matter, the fact that I was able to quickly copy all of the readable files was enough to save me and let me just restore the bad ones from a separate backup.

This is a keeper.

It's donationware, and truly fully functional and free.  I made a donation.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: taskbar/menu bar appearing on left of screen

« Last post by mouser on May 08, 2018, 06:54 PM »

speaking of which, how do I upgrade the one on my PC to the latest version

Just download and install latest version from official web page on top of existing version to upgrade: https://www.donation...ps/screenshot-captor

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Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread

« Last post by mouser on May 08, 2018, 06:11 PM »

Maybe you meant to post on this thread where people share photos of their pets?
https://www.donation...ndex.php?topic=19111

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Add Border To Screenshot Is Not Working

« Last post by mouser on May 07, 2018, 10:43 AM »

it's just that in the PopUp Choice image window the border doesn't show

Yeah, that's a bit confusing I admit.

Glad you got it working the way you want.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Add Border To Screenshot Is Not Working

« Last post by mouser on May 07, 2018, 09:57 AM »

Now the popup choice dialog presented after capture actually has several tweaks you can make to match your workflow, you can find them in the "Advanced Tweaking" - > Quick Bar and Post Cap preference tab, at the bottom.


From that tab you can change things like where your cursor starts out when that post-capture pop up is shown, etc.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Add Border To Screenshot Is Not Working

« Last post by mouser on May 07, 2018, 09:56 AM »

Let's handle the simple and important one first.  To change what happens when you take a screenshot, go to preferences and Interface Tab, and choose "After Capture Show" as "Pop Up Choice Dialog":


This is such an important setting that there are actually several places you can change it, from the right-click system tray menu, to the pop-up dialog itself.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Add Border To Screenshot Is Not Working

« Last post by mouser on May 07, 2018, 09:27 AM »

That is just for changing the style of border that gets applied, WHEN you apply a border.
To actually add a border, from menu choose SpecialFX2->Border around Image, or use the toolbar button for it.

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Fundraiser 2018 Money - Help Decide Where it Goes

« Last post by mouser on May 07, 2018, 08:51 AM »

4wd mail me your shipping info and I will send you a replacement mug.

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Fundraiser 2018 Money - Help Decide Where it Goes

« Last post by mouser on May 06, 2018, 01:25 PM »

For those mentioned in this thread who want a 3d custom painted cody award -- send me an email to [email protected] with your shipping address.

And also, we need to figure out what text you want on the front and along the edge.

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: RegexCaptor - Simple app to extract email addresses or other patterns from text

« Last post by mouser on May 06, 2018, 05:15 AM »

I think that's a great idea, I will add it.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Missing icons for some links on Windows 10/8 64-bit

« Last post by mouser on May 06, 2018, 01:31 AM »

Ok I'll have a look and see what I can fix.

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Skwire Empire / Free weather APIs

« Last post by mouser on May 05, 2018, 02:03 PM »

Saw this article and thought it might be worth posting for your reference. It talks about 5 free weather APIs:
http://www.ilovefree...ree-weather-api.html

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Fundraiser 2018 Money - Help Decide Where it Goes

« Last post by mouser on May 05, 2018, 12:57 PM »

If allowed, I will request to donate my share to more needing member of DC.

Sure -- you can nominate anyone you want.
OR you can choose to have a custom hand painted 3d cody award sent to you.

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: RegexCaptor - Simple app to extract email addresses or other patterns from text

« Last post by mouser on May 05, 2018, 10:41 AM »

As of now, Regex Captor doesn't provide much if anything that other tools don't provide.

But I am open to feature requests if there are problems it might solve that other tools don't -- it would be fun if we could figure out some features that made the tool genuinely useful over other tools.

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: RegexCaptor - Simple app to extract email addresses or other patterns from text

« Last post by mouser on May 05, 2018, 09:33 AM »

I have corrected the link to the old Linebyter program.

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Fundraiser 2018 Money - Help Decide Where it Goes

« Last post by mouser on May 05, 2018, 03:07 AM »

Ok I'm going to start making some executive decisions about where the money goes unless one of our moderators or long time members doesn't volunteer to figure out who should get what..

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / NANY 2019: RegexCaptor - Simple app to extract email or other patterns from text

« Last post by mouser on May 04, 2018, 06:36 PM »

This is a very simple beta release of a program to extract email addresses or other regular expressions from text files.

• https://www.donation...RegexCaptorSetup.exe
• or https://www.donation...exCaptorPortable.zip

Motivation:

This is a very simple task.  I needed to extract email addresses from bounced emails in order to remove them from the donationcoder mailing lists.  This is a fairly simple task for a commandline regular expression extractor tool, but I like to be able to drag+drop and get some visual interaction.

I tried a few "free" tools for doing this and they were ALL adware, shareware, feature limited.  Just horrible.  I don't know when we got to a point where people think they can list software unambiguously as "free" and have it be filled with adware or be horribly crippled until you buy the full version. 

So I decided to write my own tool, with hopes for improving it.  The goals are similar to CodeByters Linebyter which I have used in the past but whose source code was lost.

Again this is a very simple tool, it has a few minor features that make it useful for specific tasks:

• You can create your own list of common regular expression search patterns and select between them easily.
• You can specify a portion of the expression that should be extracted and listed.
• You can specify additional patterns to be ignored (in regex or plaintext format).
• The final list is sorted and duplicates removed.
• Easy to search multiple files; remembers file list.

Again this is a very niche tool but I may add features to it to make it more useful for other tasks.  If you already have a good regular expression "extractor" that you are happy with, this is unlikely to replace it.

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Living Room / Re: Photography and Camera Related

« Last post by mouser on May 04, 2018, 07:19 AM »

Just want to say thanks for this thread -- some cool stuff here