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Rev. Bleech_ posted:Is anybody aware of an app that could do some auto-sorting of files based on tokens in the filename? For instance, sorting a folder full of "alpha-XXXX.doc", "bravo-XXXX.pdf", "charlie-XXX.pdf" etc files into seperate 'alpha', 'bravo', and charlie folders? Or say "alpha-edit1.pdf", "alpha_edit2.pdf", "alpha-final.pdf" into 'Edit1', 'Edit2', or 'Final' folders? I can't think of an app off-hand, but it could be done fairly easily with PowerShell. At its simplest, it would look something like code:
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google search: https://sumtips.com/snippets/powershell/powershell-sort-files-into-folders-based-on-filename/ I'm a dope so I'd just find a way to make Renamer do it for me: http://www.den4b.com/products/renamer
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Jan 20, 2020 04:18
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I just realized I didn't even explain half my problem; one feature that would be an essential, which is making folders based on that token I'm moving files with in the process. It could be (and in one instance is) 1,000+ files and I could end up with 40 or 50 folders; making those is the giant pain in the rear end I'm trying to avoid having to do (and didn't explain in the first place because I'm a forgetful dope). But yeah, it looks like powershell may be up to the task, thanks!
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Jan 20, 2020 04:56
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In that case you'd preface it with New-Item to create the folders for moving into new-item -itemtype "directory" -path "c:\folder\" -name "alpha"
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Jan 20, 2020 05:09
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Uthor posted:I'm looking for an app that lets me right click on a JPG (or batch of JPGs) and resize them. I have something on my desktop but don't remember what I installed and won't be home until the end of the week to check. Mainly, I use it to resize photos from my camera into something more email friendly. Few pages back, unsure if it was answered. I use this. https://www.intowindows.com/resize-images-from-context-menu-in-windows-10/
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Jan 21, 2020 01:58
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A Grand Egg posted:Few pages back, unsure if it was answered. I forgot all about this! Thanks.
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Jan 21, 2020 02:17
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Recommendations for the easiest way to add notes on top of a video file? Want to add notes about certain parts of a video, but don't need anyone super fancy, before I upload to YouTube
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Jan 21, 2020 02:28
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Medullah posted:Recommendations for the easiest way to add notes on top of a video file? Want to add notes about certain parts of a video, but don't need anyone super fancy, before I upload to YouTube Doesn't YouTube have a basic video editing feature? You might be able to do it right there.
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Jan 21, 2020 02:32
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Toast Museum posted:Doesn't YouTube have a basic video editing feature? You might be able to do it right there. That's what I thought but I couldn't figure it out, and googling gave me unclear results. It could just be my Google Fu wasn't on point.
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Jan 21, 2020 12:01
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Medullah posted:That's what I thought but I couldn't figure it out, and googling gave me unclear results. It could just be my Google Fu wasn't on point. Apparently they discontinued most of their editing features at some point  If you're on Windows 10, there's a built-in app I'd never noticed before that's literally called Video Editor. It's not exactly feature-rich, but you can add text annotations.
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Jan 21, 2020 13:28
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My kingdom for a god drat VLC dark mode skin that doesn't reconfigure the UI and hide/break using VLSub search/download!
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Jan 22, 2020 09:05
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Doing a long delayed refresh of my various account passwords. What does a Microsoft account now include? They rolled in skype and outlook at some point, anything else? Edit: found the answer. Everything in the list below shares the same email and password. Jesus. quote:Windows 8 and later Fruits of the sea fucked around with this message at 16:18 on Jan 22, 2020 |
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Jan 22, 2020 16:11
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Fruits of the sea posted:Doing a long delayed refresh of my various account passwords. What does a Microsoft account now include? They rolled in skype and outlook at some point, anything else? Microsoft office. Your windows login, unless you jumped through the hoops needed for a local only account. The new Chromium based Microsoft Edge if you plan on using it.
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Jan 22, 2020 16:17
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The Lord Bude posted:Microsoft office. Your windows login, unless you jumped through the hoops needed for a local only account. The new Chromium based Microsoft Edge if you plan on using it. Thanks, the list I found wasn't updated for the Edge.
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Jan 22, 2020 16:20
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Fruits of the sea posted:Thanks, the list I found wasn't updated for the Edge. I mean you don't have to sign into your Microsoft account to use edge, but much like your google account with chrome it allows for syncing, and various personalisation features. One thing I love in Chromium Edge is that I can store payment details as well as my Address and whatnot and basically auto fill forms when I'm online shopping - Name, Address, email, credit card number and expiry, etc.
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Jan 22, 2020 16:50
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The Lord Bude posted:I mean you don't have to sign into your Microsoft account to use edge, but much like your google account with chrome it allows for syncing, and various personalisation features. One thing I love in Chromium Edge is that I can store payment details as well as my Address and whatnot and basically auto fill forms when I'm online shopping - Name, Address, email, credit card number and expiry, etc.
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Jan 22, 2020 16:59
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mystes posted:Don't chrome and firefox already do that as well? Haven’t used Firefox since chrome first came out so I can’t speak for that but I don’t remember chrome being able to do that unless I missed it.
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Jan 22, 2020 17:02
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Yeah, that's been a feature forever, Chrome has it as well. Is there an option to delete all synced data from the Microsoft servers? Can't find it.
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Jan 22, 2020 17:02
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I went through a horrible cycle of constantly resetting the passwords for skype, office and windows back when I got a Win8 computer and before I figured out the accounts were now all linked. Lost permanent access to an old hotmail account I had been using since I was a kid. Suffice to say I'd rather not link more services together under the same password.
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Jan 22, 2020 17:12
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So my dad is old and he’s been using AV software for years and he was asking me about PCmatic. He wants to switch from using AVG which he pays for. Anyone have any experience with PCmatic?
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Jan 22, 2020 23:40
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If he's on Win 10 do you think there's any way to convince him to get rid of it all and just use the built in Defender?
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Jan 22, 2020 23:44
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AlexDeGruven posted:If he's on Win 10 do you think there's any way to convince him to get rid of it all and just use the built in Defender? He is and I wish. I think the issue is I’m not there so if he just un installed AvG I couldn’t be sure defender would be enabled properly. I’ve told him that before but again he’s old and set in his ways.
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Jan 22, 2020 23:46
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This is why I have remote access set up for my FIL's computer. I can just log in and fix poo poo instead of trying to walk a 71 year old man through the necessary clicks.
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Jan 22, 2020 23:50
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Just get him to download Teamviewer Quicksupport and log in through that. Never use an antivirus software that isn't Defender; it's all snake oil, and free options (Avast is probably the most popular one) are all riddled with ads and weird browser hijacking extensions. If Defender didn't activate automatically after uninstalling AVG, get the AVG Clear or AVG Remover tool from the AVG website to completely uninstall it: https://support.avg.com/SupportArticleView?l=en&urlName=Uninstall-AVG-software-Clear-Remover&q=How+to+uninstall+AVG&supportType=home Lambert fucked around with this message at 23:55 on Jan 22, 2020 |
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Jan 22, 2020 23:53
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Lambert posted:Just get him to download Teamviewer Quicksupport and log in through that. Never use an antivirus software that isn't Defender; it's all snake oil, and free options (Avast is probably the most popular one) are all riddled with ads and weird browser hijacking extensions. Ok thanks! I’ll do this I’ve told him in the past that he doesn’t need it but again he’s in his 70s and remembers the hellscape that the PC world used to be.
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Jan 23, 2020 00:08
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Just tell him you bought him a new program called Defender and need to install it for him.
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Jan 23, 2020 01:56
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Yeah I just had a long conversation with him about it and his current one doesn’t expire till March so he’s gonna wait till I’m back from my trip so I can teamview in and delete the current one and make sure defender is working. Is the small successes. Thanks guys!
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Jan 23, 2020 02:03
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I like Chrome (and Credge (and sure Firefox whatever)) and I like Windows' built in Virtual Desktops. But I have a problem, because if I put various browser windows on various desktops, and then restart the browser (eg, for an update), they all reset to ONE virtual desktop. What I would like is for each window to restore to the ORIGINAL virtual desktop it was closed from. Googling around, this is allegedly possible and/or how it's supposed to work (https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1000451). Has anyone seen a Chrome flag that relates to this behavior, or possibly some other setting, or registry tweak, or whatever? It's driving me insane.
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Jan 23, 2020 02:14
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AlexDeGruven posted:This is why I have remote access set up for my FIL's computer. I can just log in and fix poo poo instead of trying to walk a 71 year old man through the necessary clicks. Chrome Remote Access has saved me from much headache
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Jan 23, 2020 03:36
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MarcusSA posted:So my dad is old and he’s been using AV software for years and he was asking me about PCmatic. He wants to switch from using AVG which he pays for. AV software is snake oil and often does more harm than good. The only thing he should be using is Windows defender built into windows 10. You need to drill into him the importance of always making sure things are kept up to date, plus have ublock origin installed in his web browser - I prefer the new Chromium Edge.
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Jan 23, 2020 03:51
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MarcusSA posted:So my dad is old and he’s been using AV software for years and he was asking me about PCmatic. He wants to switch from using AVG which he pays for. Dear god what a terrible, cheesy name. Anyone suggestible enough to be lured by that deserves what they get. Medullah posted:Just tell him you bought him a new program called Defender and need to install it for him. Haha that is genius. I'm gonna remember that.
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Jan 23, 2020 04:05
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Factor Mystic posted:I like Chrome (and Credge (and sure Firefox whatever)) and I like Windows' built in Virtual Desktops. But I have a problem, because if I put various browser windows on various desktops, and then restart the browser (eg, for an update), they all reset to ONE virtual desktop. What I would like is for each window to restore to the ORIGINAL virtual desktop it was closed from. Googling around, this is allegedly possible and/or how it's supposed to work (https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1000451). Post this on the Edge Beta forums. It's a good use case.
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Jan 23, 2020 05:03
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:Chrome Remote Access has saved me from much headache The extension is blocked at work since our Chrome is centrally managed, otherwise I'd use that all the time. I use DWService and it's been working well for me so far. Made the switch when TeamViewer got stupid (again).
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Jan 23, 2020 14:31
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I have an iCal to G Suite importing question. Is there a G Suite thread or anything?
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Jan 23, 2020 22:06
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Hipster_Doofus posted:Dear god what a terrible, cheesy name. Anyone suggestible enough to be lured by that deserves what they get. it's easily in line with how software was named. probably still are a lot of products like this!
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Jan 23, 2020 22:13
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Okay, I am having another problem with Excel. This one is so baffling and Google simply is not helping. So I have a column full of numbers and I want to make a line chart. Every guide tells me to select the column, go to Insert > Charts > Line and pick the chart you want, and you'll get it. Okay, so I do that and... Why is that even an option???? Anyway if I had to guess I would say that the program is somehow not recognizing the numbers as numbers, but I already used Format Cells to change all these cells to the Number format. So I'm at a loss. Again, Google isn't helping. The search "excel chart all numbers go in title" or similar only turns up results for how to give a chart a title. Has anyone dealt with this before? Also, let me know if this isn't the right place for this.
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Jan 24, 2020 00:43
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Lambert posted:Yeah, that's been a feature forever, Chrome has it as well. Try here.
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Jan 24, 2020 00:54
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Ariong posted:Okay, I am having another problem with Excel. This one is so baffling and Google simply is not helping. So I have a column full of numbers and I want to make a line chart. Every guide tells me to select the column, go to Insert > Charts > Line and pick the chart you want, and you'll get it. Okay, so I do that and... Are you only highlighting that column? What is the X axis and Y axis meant to be?
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Jan 24, 2020 01:09
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Ideally I’d like the X-axis to be the order of the numbers (first number all the way to the left, second number right of first, third number right of second, etc.) and the Y-axis to be the value of the numbers.
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Ariong posted:Ideally I’d like the X-axis to be the order of the numbers (first number all the way to the left, second number right of first, third number right of second, etc.) and the Y-axis to be the value of the numbers. So the data is all in one column? Or are the other columns included?
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