Questions tagged [file-management]
Software to manage files stored on device(s), network(s), and/or in the cloud.
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I need an audio duplicate finder with 100% accuracy (acoustic fingerprinting?)
I'm in the process of archiving/remixing band files from long ago, when I just started out. My tagging/naming skills were non existent, so Ive got a lot of duplicates. I've tried myriad "...
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Android file manager that can select by date?
Is anyone aware of an Android file manager that allows selecting files by date, preferably OSS?
I'm mounting my camera's SD card with a USB OTG adapter and want to copy all taken pictures starting ...
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monitor and send mail if file is not present or changed
I have a system that zips and copy the SQL-backup to a central FTP-server that I manage. Every client has its own folder wich contains the backups for the last 7 days.
Now I need a system that ...
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Graphical File Manager for Linux with Fuzzy Search for Navigation
I am looking for a feature-rich graphical file manager that supports (native or via plugin) fuzzy search (like fzf) for jumping to other directories. For example I'd like to press some key to open a ...
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Android file manager that preserves nanoseconds
I'm looking for an Android file manager that preserves modification nanoseconds when moving/copying. This is honestly a very basic requirement, that all the file managers I've tried so far appears to ...
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Windows CLI tool to take full ownership of a file
I do auditing of Windows Systems, I need a simple and robust CLI tool that can take ownership of any file to the full extent.
I've dabbled with takeown and icacls but they seem to be quite limited, ...
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Tagging software that is friendly to moving to another computer
I've been looking to start adding tags to my images, but soon realised gif and png don't support that. So I started looking for third-party software; however as expected it saves information on tags ...
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A software on each computer in a classroom in which students can send their answers to the teacher's
I teach programming in a class - a real one not a virtual and online one. I ask my students to write a code during the class, and then I go on their desks and see their code, and I evaluate it and ...
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A generic editor for trees and graphs of text
I am missing a generic editor, similar to a plain text code editor (like Kate), but not for lines of text, but for trees and graphs of lines of text or variant data records.
I always wondered why this ...
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Filesharing solution for small architecture firm
I run a small architecture firm. Until recently this firm was just composed of myself and I used Google Drive to share files between my laptop and office computers. However I've recently began to work ...
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Reverse image search/duplicate finder like Google but locally?
I am not looking to find all duplicate files.
I have an image that is low resolution on my desktop, sadly as it's low resolution it's not really usable.
But somewhere on my computer, on one of the 4 ...
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LAN distributed file system
I have several computers at home (windows and linux), not to mention my android phone. I also have a music library, some commonly useful files, etc. I end up with copies of files scattered ...
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Web-based file manager with ability to check-out and check-in files
I am looking for a simple open source web-based file manager that can do the following:
List files
Allow logged-in users to check-out a file (i.e. download), whereupon the file will be "locked&...
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Alternative to File explorer that supports undo operation
In Windows 11, I am looking for an alternative file explorer that supports undo operation. Initially, I tried One-Commander which is amazing but unfortunately, it doesn't support undo operation: https:...
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Where can I fund a Windows OS GUI interface that would be a file manager to results output from the GNU find command?
I am very adept at using the GNU (Unix / Linux) find command.
Now I am looking for a GUI UI tool where I can run any find command I want, or point it to a script and have the results displayed in a ...
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Digital archive - solution with metadata
I am in charge of a small digital archive and I am trying to figure out how to manage it.
I have another archive of my owm, but since I am a photographer, I am spoiled by EXIF & IPTC.
The other ...
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Linking phones to computer for photos
I work in an industry where the employees are continually taking photos of vehicles (25+ photos per vehicle) every day.
We currently use a memory card system where we remove the memory card out of the ...
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How to Mark Pictures as Favorites
I have recently downloaded 100's of thousands of of classical paintings, all in the public domain. They are organized very well already, but I want to be able to select individual images and "...
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Software to catalog and extract metadata from pictures and mp3 and mount the catalog as a drive
I use a Synology NAS to store all my photos and music, and I'm looking for a solution to manage all those files in a consistent way and be able to find them easily and share them with other people.
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Multimedia assets management application
I am looking for an app for managing multimedia files, i.e. image assets, video clips, sound clips etc.
Platforms: Windows [must], but a big plus if it could run on MacOS and Linux too.
Required ...
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For PhD: Software for Cross-Matching & Organizing Files & Recordings + Metadata
For my PhD I am accumulating thousands pdf and word documents from with lecture notes, transcriptions, powerpoint slides, and handouts.
I also have several thousand recordings of lectures & ...
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Linux file browser with custom toolbar buttons with custom commands/actions?
Is there a file browser (preferably for debian) with customizabile toolbar(s) to which you can add buttons (with custom icons) with assignable custom actions? Something like QTTabBar for windows file ...
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Gratis full file system bidirectional file transfer between Windows and Android
There is no shortage of apps to backup contacts, photos, calendar, videos, etc from Android to PC.
I am looking for one (gratis) that allows me access to the full file system - in both directions.
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Manage files across external SSDs
I want to be able to find which SSD contains a particular file without manually plugging in and trying each drive.
I'm considering to index each SSD as a text file, which can be grep'd to find the SSD ...
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Self-hosted web app to create dynamic and 'pretty' file indexes from file hierarchies on the web server
I fairly often use the native nginx function to create indexes from a directory to share collections of files through the autoindex directive.
autoindex on;
This works but the index created is ...
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Tree View File Explorer for Windows
I would like a file explorer for Windows (10) that allows you to view everything, files and folders, in a single tree view, without having to open each folder to see a list of its files in a separate ...
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What AI/automation software can help me with Desktop File Management and Desktop Customization?
I'm looking for AI/automation software that can help me with:
A) Desktop File Management
Declutter my devices by removing unnecessary files and apps.
Reorganize my most-used apps and categorize them ...
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Looking for something that can turn this text document back into a full file path
I am attempting to take the output of tree (which was saved into a file and passed to me [I do not have access to the original source to use something else for output]) and reconstruct a full ...
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Need file database that can search file filenames, metadata, and text content (e.g. PDFs)
I am looking to build a database of many files including PDF, XLSS, text, image, and other file formats. I need a way to search these files for content and metadata, while providing easy access to the ...
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%100 free file manager Android app with http server feature
I am looking for free file manager Android app can create http server web interface. No ads , no in app purchase.
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File shredder with drag and drop batch shredding list and/or scheduler
I'm looking for a file shredder where you can drag and drop any number of files and folders to a list of files to shred, and then save that list for later (or regular) shredding.
The tool should be ...
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Software/Tools available for transforming SQL data and physical file names and locations
We're developing the next iteration of some software which basically collects data, stores it in SQL as a combination of columns or as JSON within columns, and stores physical files associated with ...
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Windows-like central authentication, file sharing, rights management and single-sign-on in Linux-only environment
I run a small Linux-based network with Linux-only clients and servers. A combination of Samba and Kerberos is used for central authentication, file sharing and file server permission management.
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Configurable FUSE alternative to AVFS
While AVFS allows any tools that work with the filesystem to view into archives, the list of supported file formats is static and limited to archives.
Is there some FUSE filesystem able to execute ...
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Allowing users to organize folders and files on a Linux based cloud server
We are looking for a solution, preferably open source, that has an API that we could invoke to allow our end users to create folders and files on our Linux based cloud server, and organize them as per ...
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Send mail if file content NOT changed [closed]
I'm looking for a way to check if file content is not changed since 10 min and if not send a mail
File only contains 1 line with a number like this 1653014463445
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file "final" only ...
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File integrity/changes audit with SMPP/SMTP alert and reporting feature - File watcher
Here's my use case.
As a Sysadmin, I would like to monitor on a Linux server any changes to a specific/predefined file or directory, so that I can answer via a report the following questions : who ...
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What email services or applictions allow easily remove all mails?
Gmail doesnt have a clear way to do it, neither its clear with outlook at least in mobile applications. Are there email services or clients for android that would have a good enough controls allowing ...
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Kind of "virtual file system" for Windows?
I have lots of terabytes of files that i´d like to organize in a hierarchical file system.
These files are in multiple drives, all connected to my computer, however, copying vast amounts of large ...
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File Organizer and Indexer for an External SSD Drive
I will be using an an external SSD drive to store PDF and Word documents, but I'll add media (pictures, videos), Spreadsheets and Power Point files too.
I am looking for any solution to organize and ...
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File manager which doesn't read or write anything unless asked to
I am working with files stored in Google Drive by mounting the google drive in my file google-drive-ocamlfuse. My internet connection to Google Drive is not that fast. Typically I use Dolphin, but ...
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Windows desktop file/folder log, monitor
OS : windows 10
If I right-click background of desktop, there is a shell menu that shows the most recent event that has happened, and you can undo the event. But it is for just 1 most recent event and ...
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File explorer for Windows that allows to see all files in all subfolders of a folder at a glance
For example, given the file structure:
Folder_1
Folder_1-1
File_1-1_1.jpg
File_1-1_2.jpg
Folder_1-2
Folder_1-2-1
File_1-2-1_1.jpg
File_1-2_1.jpg
A ...
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Program to create and manage session-like 'bundles' of documents and webpages
I am looking for a program to create 'bundles' or groups of documents and webpages, similarly to Windows desktops but without needing to define new desktops. Also similarly to the typical 'save for ...
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Is there any web browser for android with "File System Access API"?
Chromium based android browsers currently don't have the support for "File System Access API" and Firefox mobile also doesn't have the support.
I have checked caniuse.com where it shows some ...
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copy or move tool that will skip over error messages but will log them
I'm looking for tool for moving/copying files/folder which will not hang on errors like directories cannot be deleted or created due to permissions, long file/folder names etc. but rather will ...
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Which Android file manager supports sorting directories by their actual size?
Which Android file manager supports sorting directories by their "actual size"? By "actual size" I mean size in bytes calculated recursively as a sum of all sub directories and ...
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Undelete tools for Windows with high recovery rates
I am looking for a Windows tool that tries to find & recover all deleted files on a NTFS hdd (including healthy parts of partially overwritten files).
From my experience, results greatly vary.
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Can someone recommend an image organization software for Linux systems?
I have a lot of images (pictures) on my computer and I'd like a solution to tag them somehow, and then return lists of filenames based on some querying criterion.
Ideally this program...
Runs from ...
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Automatically synchronize OneDrive files when edited with specific software on iPad
Is it possible to edit PDF files, (for example,) with OneNote on my iPad and then those edited files are automatically updated also on my OneDrive? With edit, I mostly mean making notes with the Apple ...
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