Windows 10: Windows and/or OneDrive renamed all files in a directory as a "-copy"

ClaytonGawrysiak · Sep 30, 2023

I got a notification from my Plex remote server today that the music files I wanted to play were missing. Naturally I freaked out and when I got home checked to see if there was a drive failure or something. However, Windows has seemingly renamed every file in my music folder as "-copy.mp3". Some 45,000 files - all renamed "copy". I spent years organizing my music library. I had this folder backup up in OneDrive and looking at its recent activity it seems to be the culprit. All the files in OneDrive are also renamed "-copy", like it changed the name of all my files then backed them up. Why the

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FordGT90Concept · Sep 30, 2023

Windows 10 - OneDrive

Right click on the app and one of the properties has an option to not automatically start it. Uncheck, restart the computer, and it should stop. If you want to go another step further, find the OneDrive app in the start menu, right click on it and uninstall.

If that is still insufficient, there is a batch uninstaller for OneDrive available online. I can copy the code here if you need it.

Drone · Sep 30, 2023

Directory Size Utility

First of all nice utility, Mindweaver!
Second of all, it's so nice to see that this section ain't dead.

I have a few questions/suggestions, maybe you'd want to see ...

maybe you rename Get Folder button caption to something more intuitive? Add Folder, Get Folder Size, Check Folder Size or something like that?

Could you add subfolder files to the right pane? (it can be a tickbox with include sub dirs)

maybe you also add export list to excel?

there's delete file button maybe you add delete folder button too?

and finally maybe you can add UP button for directories?

Hybrid_theory · Sep 30, 2023

Script can copy file directory in one spot but not the other

On drive E: on a Windows Server, I have directory "test". And then maybe 4 more directories down I have directory "fred". My script runs in a different tree under test. It points a to the fred directory which contains files, and sub directories with files. The script looks for files with a certain extension, makes a backup of them, then edits the original files. Now this works for all of the files directly in the "fred" directory. But the files in any of the sub directories of fred, give an issue with copying the file. As a test, I copied fred and all its contents to E:\. I adjusted the script to look at E:\Fred, and everything worked fine. The originals were copied, and edited as expected.

I compared permissions between E:\Fred and E:\test\..\..\..\fred. they're basically the same. They both have a checkmark in read only(which only resets itself after i uncheck it). The only minor difference was that E:\test\..\..\..\fred didnt have a couple of special permissions for the Users group. This involved, modify, dir traversal, read and execute. I gave those permissions but still no luck.

Windows 10: Windows and/or OneDrive renamed all files in a directory as a "-copy"

Windows and/or OneDrive renamed all files in a directory as a "-copy"

Windows and/or OneDrive renamed all files in a directory as a "-copy"

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