[AccessD] Constant copy interruptions

I've recently tried to find some files on someone's Windows 7 machine.  All I wanted to do was find some AVI 'help' files the user had dropped in a non standard location.  I thought I checked all the options possible for finding these files including system and hidden files and all the locations existing as options.  Never found a single file.  Somehow the OS knew that AVI files should only be found in 'My Documents' or 'Documents' or whatever they've renamed it to now.   Windows wouldn't tell me where it decided to search or even search the additional locations I specified.
 
Run  cmd
cd \
dir *.avi/s
 
40 odd files found including the ones I wanted.
 
In Win 98 and XP, you could still find your files somewhat efficiently but all bets are off with Vista and 7.  I was accustomed to punching the start button and hitting 'f f'  for find files.  This even worked in XP after they renamed it Search.  Now they confuse files with applications, take many times as long, lost the explorer right click search that worked with a simple keyboard shortcut.  Windows file search is now complete shit.

Robocopy is great and sometimes the command line is as necessary and fundamental as breathing because there are times when no usable alternative exists.  The command line is aptly named; it doesn't make suggestions, it issues commands.
 
Ciao
Jürgen Welz
Edmonton, Alberta
jwelz at hotmail.com


 
> From: jimdettman at verizon.net
> To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
> Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 14:05:45 -0400
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Constant copy interruptions
> 
> 
> Amazing is it not? I'm always amazed that whenever you need to get into
> the "guts" of windows, you always end up at the command line.
> 
> Even with some normal stuff (like Exchange), your always working from the
> "command let".
> 
> But with that I've got to say, I'd rather work from the command line then
> anything else. Just less stuff to get in your way.
> 
> Jim. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
> Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 12:38 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Constant copy interruptions
> 
> > He he, afraid of the command line he is!
> 
> No, tired of the command line he is. I was using the CPM command line in
> 1982. In 2010, TWENTY 
> EIGHT YEARS later people are still suggesting the command line. How sad is
> that?
> 
> I have a machine which is 1000 times the clock speed, and 10,000 times the
> memory and 100,000 times 
> the disk storage, a virtual super computer next to my 1982 CPM machine and
> Gustav is suggesting the 
> command line.
> 
> Sigh!
> 
> Excuse me but I haven't got time for this conversation, I have to go hitch
> the ox to the ox cart to 
> go to the village miller now to get some flour to bake my bread.
> 
> ;)
> 
> John W. Colby
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
> 
> On 11/1/2010 9:00 AM, Gustav Brock wrote:
> > Hi John
> >
> > He he, afraid of the command line he is!
> > Use tools like xcopy or - if you are keen about the delicate file
> attributes - robocopy:
> >
> >
> http://www.sqlmag.com/article/sql-server/tool-tip-the-awesomeness-of-robocop
> y.aspx
> >
> > /gustav