Below you will find pages that utilize the taxonomy term “Windows”
Personal observations on Robocopy, Rsync, and Rclone
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Previous article: brief comparison between robocopy and rsync
- 3. Slow rsync with WebDAV
- 4. Installing Rclone on Linux: repository or official website?
- 5. Configuring Rclone
1. Introduction
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Robocopy: The “Robust File Copy” is a built-in powerhouse for Windows users. It’s the native way to handle massive local transfers or network shares (SMB) while perfectly preserving NTFS permissions.
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Rsync: The de facto standard for the Unix world (Linux and macOS). It’s famous for its efficiency—instead of re-copying everything, it only syncs the specific parts of a file that have changed.
Comments on the APPLICATION BAR and KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS in WINDOWS and GNU/LINUX.
- 1. Introduction
- 2. What is the “Super” Key?
- 3. What is the Taskbar?
- 4. The Core Concept: Super + Number
- 5. To Pin or Not to Pin? That is the Question.
- 6. More Than Just Windows: The “Super + Number” Shortcut on Linux
- 7. Beyond the OS: Browsers and Outlook
- 8. The Bottom Line
1. Introduction
In modern desktop environments, from Windows to mainstream GNU/Linux distributions, Alt+Tab remains the go-to shortcut for window switching.
MS Windows: xcopy and robocopy with mentions of batch procedures and rsync.
- Copy and Paste: the universal method.
- A short introduction to the Command Line in MS Windows.
- Two integrated command-line solutions: xcopy and robocopy.
- Basic scheme and some options, among many, of the robocopy command.
- Robocopy and batch procedures.
- Robocopy and Rsync.
- FreeFileSync
Copy and Paste: the universal method.
To transfer files from one folder to another folder we usually use “copy and paste.”
Extract a list of files from a folder and paste it into a document, in MS Windows, GNU/Linux and macOS.
Article on how to copy a list of files in a folder and paste the list into an open document. The operation is performed only with resources internal to the tested operating systems, which are MS Windows, GNU/Linux (Arch, Fedora and Ubuntu) and macOS, although in the last one, only in command-line mode.
- 1. Topic of this article.
- 2. Command line solution in MS Windows.
- 3. Command-line solution in GNU/Linux and macOS.
- 4. Graphical solution in Windows with File Explorer.
- 5. Graphical solution in Linux with File Manager.
1. Topic of this article.
Have you ever had a folder on your computer full of files and need to insert the list of those files in a page you are editing?