filesystems

Concept of pagefiles in windows?

What is the concept (working) of pagefiles in windows? What are the advantages of this? ...

c# Drag and drop functionality

Hi there! In short, I want to make an application in which users can drag a file form their finder (mac), or their computer explorer (PC) to a location on my application, and then have that dragged file be loaded into the application. I don't have any kind of access to any drag and drop events (Supposedly), as I am using a rendering eng...

how is a file represented on a disk

Hello, so I want to ask, and forgive me if this is obvious, or newbie question: if I create a file, say a text file - save it, (I'm using Ubuntu), so this file I have created, has some extra information associated with it, such as, the place on my hard drive where it has been saved. How to examine this information? Where does this inform...

How to either create a filesystem filepath alias/redirect or rename several (xml) files to point to a new path via a programmatic text replace?

Forgive me if this is obvious but- is there any way to set up a filepath alias in Windows? I have a bunch of custom app config files that exist in a certain location and they contain filepath references to paths which I am trying to get rid of. I want to move the files referenced in these configs to a completely different file system pa...

200,000 images in single folder in linux, perfomance issue or not?

Hi, I have a php/mysql website with over 200,00 images in single folder (linux server). I don't think, that I will never need to see them in file explorer, instead they will be viewed on website on their individual pages. They are just displayed in product page on website. File system is ext3. so is it wise to save them in single fold...

Linux user group folder permissions

I have a basic linux file permissions question: I have a folder named test: $ ls -la drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2010-10-25 17:11 . drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 2010-10-25 16:53 .. drw-rwS--- 3 root codedev 4096 2010-10-25 17:11 test In this folder (test) I want all users that are members of the group codedev to have read and...

Image management system

Hi Everyone, I have a user that wants to be able to upload photo's to his website, and then be able to choose which album he wants them to appear in. I already have the albums hard coded on the site, but he wants the ability to add more. Does anyone know of a script or cms or something that this can easily and cheaply be implemented o...

"An unexpected network error occurred." happens occasionally, unable to isolate

I have a VB .NET Application which I have written for my company which occasionally throws a message “System.IO.IOException: An unexpected network error occurred.”, that I have been unable to figure out the issue. The application is a Backup program which to simplify for this post does the following: 1) Checks for H drive or external d...

documentatuon by file system for flash drive

Hello, My bachelor work is file system for flash drive. What can i read and where can find documentation for this theme? Thank you. ...

File Comparison via Byte Array issues.

I am coding a class that compares the files of two directories via comparing the Byte arrays of each file. I am however not getting the expected results; identical files are not being resolved as identical files. First problem: Matching the files Byte[] with equals() resolves to false with matching files (Checked with only one file as ...