[AccessD] Constant copy interruptions

I've started using  Everything from http://www.voidtools.com/

A really great tool. It built it's initial database of my 400GB of files spread over two volumes in 
just a few seconds and since then sits unobtrusively in the background.    If I want to find 
anything now, I just pop Everything up as start typing part of the file name, including wild 
cards if I want and the displayed list of files/folders instantly changes to match my 
specification.  Double click on an item to open it, right click gives you the full Explorere 
contect menu. It's brilliant.

In this case, we do have a GUI tool which is easier to use than CLI.  JC will love it :-)

-- 
Stuart

On 1 Nov 2010 at 13:07, Jurgen Welz wrote:

> 
> 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
> 
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