I have this backup folder for each of my childer, myself and my wife. Each of them is shared from my PC as I don't have a server yet, now I found a way to backup our phones to each of our backup folders, sadly after my wife phone broke.
Now we bought a temp cheap backup phone for her and everyone else to use while we try and get the real phone fixed or at least file restored.
I backup the content of that in a separate place to make it easier if we need to use that or another again.
Here is where my problem came I don't want to share the backup of the temp phone folders so I created a symbolic link to the specific folder for my Wife, children and me in our shared folders to the non shared folder of the temp phone.
First I got a error message that turned out was easy fixed, I used fsutil to activate remote to local and remote to remote which got rid of the original error but I had to do it on my PC and each of the PC's but now instead of working it gives this error: "The device is not ready" plus it shows the physical link on my pc drive and all above it.
I have tried adding the folders to shared no go, I just don't want to share the temp folder and have them to go 2 places, as everything is meant to be under each of their own backup folder that was shared, so is there a way to fix this symbolic link issue I can keep the temp backup of the shared network and just give access to their specific temp phone backup via symbolic link?
I hope it makes sense people if not please let me know I am trying my best to describe it.
Shared folders:
f:\Name Backup
non shared folder but symbolic link
f:\Backup Phone\Name
In each of the Name Backup have I created a symbolic link called Temp Phone or Backup Phone I can't remember not sitting at my pc, anyway the symbolic link of this link straight to the folder f:\Backup Phone\Name
Under which the backup of the temp phone is stored.
Replace "Name" with the name of my children, me and wife just easier to do it that way.
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Factoid One:
I have been happily creating "sites" using IIS. If I want to try something out, I just start IIS Manager, right-click 'sites', click Add Site, put a folder name in the 'Physical Path' box and add an unused Port number. There are now 30 entries in the "Sites" list.
In every case, the "Physical Path" is an F: folder, and nothing in any of those folders directly references another drive.
Factoid Two:
For months, i've been getting warnings about shrinking C: space. I go to Settings/System/Storage, and clean up what I can. I set up a couple of Simlinks to move folders to the much larger F drive. I get some space back, and pretty soon the messages begin reappearing.
Factoid Three:
After the latest warning about space on C:, I began looking around the C: drive (again). Now I discover C:/Users (how did I miss this before?) has folders whose names correspond with IIS Site Names. Inside some, and probably all, are folders named AppData, Application Data, Cookies..., a large subset of the folders found in any Users/username folder.
Finally the question:
Until I saw (3), I did not suspect a relationship between my naive use of IIS, and disappearing space on C:. Now I see a relationship, but I don't understand it. What is it, and how can I create "sites" w/o clobbering my C: drive? (And why does IIS need to reproduce a user folder, if that's what's happening?)
It is unlikely that IIS is using much space for those accounts. They are only created/used by IIS so you can manage (limit/grant) permissions (file access, db access, nw access, etc) for anonymous visitors to IIS (if your web apps need to do that kind of stuff).
You can check the actual usage (space) for those accounts: right-click and choose Properties for folders within those c:\users folders. Chances-are they will only be around 85 MB. IIS does keep logs. Those files will grow. They are in your c:\inetpub\logs\ folder and adjacent folders. Those won't be very big unless you generate a lot of traffic to your IIS server.
More likely, your space is being consumed by windows updates. My pc seems to accumulate 100mb periodically from win updates (I just checked mine: 8.9gb). Check your c:\windows\installer and c:\windows\temp folders. Those can be compressed, or if you need the space, you could purge old installer & temp (files older than 2 years). Just be careful/cautious/gentle with deleting stuff. Don't just take the opinion of one guy on stackoverflow please.
There are other good utilities you could use to find out what is using so much space.
Bottom line: it is very unlikely to be IIS or logs, or utility accounts.
I am running macOS High Sierra and using iCloud Drive. My mac recently ran low on storage so it automatically offloaded a bunch of my documents. This should always be seen as a good thing, it is working as expected. However my Mac offloaded my 20GB Windows Virtual Machine, forcing me to re-download the entire file before I could use Parallels again.
Is there a way to stop iCloud from offloading certain files?
You will need to create a folder one level up to store your VMs. In Finder, click Macintosh HD, then Users, Then your profile (your login name). This is your home folder. Once there, Click on the gear and creat a new folder named Virtual Machines (or just VMs) and move your VMs there.
You can create many different folders here and whey will not sync. Only Desktop and Documents will sync. For example, I have a folder called TEMP that has my draft documents for projects only on my local machine.
Hope that helps!
I have an issue with mounting Windows file share in Cygwin.
We have Windows file share which is using NFS to share content. I was assigned to install Cygwin on it so some application can connect over SFTP to that server.
Now they need to access the shared folder from that application and the app would pull data from that folder.The thing is that the folder is Windows shared folder (exmple; \server\photos). the current Windows users need to be able to connect to that share (it is mapped to their M drive) and the app need to connect to SFTP and pull the data from there.
My idea was to mount that NFS share in Cygwin and set it as /home directory so when the app connects, it automatically goes there.
My questions are: is this possible, and does anyone know any better solutions?
I am open for all suggestions.
Thank you.
Cygwin views the top of its directory tree / to be within the Windows directory C:\cygwin64 (or whatever its installation directory was). As a result, you are unable to move above that point in the filesystem from a Cygwin shell. The solution is to go through Cygwin's directory /cygdrive, which is automatically set up as the access point where all Windows disk drives are mounted. If your shared folder is mounted in Windows as M:, you should be able to access it in Cygwin as /cygdrive/m without any additional work.
As far as setting it up as /home, you might be able to create a symbolic link from /home to /cygdrive/m if that is what you need.
hello I don't know about this but I found this on Internet cafe but I don't have enough knowledge on how .bat files works, So I want to know how to copy files like this display.
And the files is already shared so that I can copy. All PC don't have password. Just directly log-in to desktop.
Input location to copy: \\PC1\Steam\Steam\SteamApps\common\dota 2 beta
Input location to paste: D:\Games\Steam\SteamApps\common\dota 2 beta
then it will alert me if done. The files will be overwrite and paste all data.
I don't know the code of copying too and I search too many still cant understand. I just want to use this on my internet cafe so that I don't update games anymore on every PC. Because copying on directly network is my costumer don't know.
Copy -y "source" "destination".
With the quotes if there are spaces in the path. Also, if copy does not want to copy from the network unc, then first connect to the unc using "net use".
So I found out how to share folders using Virtual Box and running Windows 8.
I was wondering, if I save files or projects from Windows 8 to the shared folder on my Mac, will TimeMachine backup those files onto my external harddrive? The hard drive is of course formatted for Mac because of that whole debockel, but that is besides the point. Even though the files were made in Windows.
Also...My assumption is that I would not be able to access the files on my external formatted hard drive from Virtual Box running Windows 8. Is this true?
To my knowledge, you cannot access the files on a journaled formatted hard drive from Windows without extra software. If I understand you correctly, you are trying to backup files created in the Windows VM within your Time Machine backup hard drive?
I'm sure you have solved this by now, but you should consider backing up the VM itself. If the files on the Windows Machine are important you can leave them in a shared folder and have time machine back up that folder.