Volume file paths Windows 7 - windows

Working on a project with video files on different external hard drives and the xml they gave me with all the file paths all start with /Volume/name_of_disk/ as they made the xml on a Mac. I'm wondering if there is an equivalent to /Volume/ in the PC file system (specifically Windows 7), that I could then tack on /name_of_disk/movie_name and have it find my movie. (more or less the same as going to Computer in Windows Explorer?)
End game I'm using Python and can take care of everything on that end, but it's more a Windows file system question, as I just switched over from Mac.
Cheers!

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How to unbind a Microsoft .OBD file?

I can't seem to find any way to open an old .OBD file. Our company has around a hundred of these binders that were created a long time ago by another company that we took over. They were created using Office 97 on some old machines that don't exist any more.
Our current machines run Windows 7 or later, with Microsoft Office 2010 and later. Is there a way to open these .OBD files? I've tried the Unbind.exe program that some people mentioned on other forums, but it won't run in Windows 7 with any compatibility settings. 7-zip was able to sort of look into the binders, but the files that were extracted aren't readable by any Office software.
We looked into using pywin32 to talk through COM and use Office to do the unbinding automatically, but we still need some program to actually do the unbinding.
Does anyone have any solutions? Thanks.
EDIT: I figured out the problem. The unbind.exe application (available from Microsoft) works, but only when run in a 32-bit OS. Using compatibility mode from a 64-bit OS doesn't seem to work. I was able to use a virtual machine on our servers that was set up for something else. If you don't have a 32-bit environment handy, I'm not sure on how to get around this.
I had 4 Microsoft binder (*.obd) files I wanted to open and didn't have access to a 32bit Windows computer. Please note that this method does not retain the original file names of the documents. Using Windows 10 64 bit I used 7Zip to extract the obd files to folders. Inside the folders were subfolders numbered 1, 2, 3 etc. In the subfolders were data files called WordDocument, Book and PowerPoint Document. I renamed WordDocument files to filename subfolder.doc, renamed Book files to filename subfolder.xls and renamed PowerPoint Document files to filename subfolder.ppt. Then I opened .doc files in Word 2019 and resaved as .docx files. Then I opened .xls files in LibreOffice Calc v7.2 and resaved as .xlsx files. I didn't have any luck with .ppt files. In my case I had to change Word 2019 protected view settings (File, Options, Trust Center, Trust Center Settings..., File Block Settings, untick Word 2, 6.0 & 95). Hope someone finds this info useful.

windows copy of files / folders

stupid question perhaps, but addressing a 40 year old stupid OS... I have a RAID6 array on a server which contains some 8TB in one partition. This is the Ubuntu box. I then have a Win 7 box, whereby I have 12TB in 6x2TB drives.
I am trying to copy the folders from ubuntu RAID6 to Windows 7, but as follows:
Drive 1 of Win 7 contains all folders A to D, drive 2 contains E to G, etc.
I started the copy / back up but then I had Windows reboot (thank you!) due to automatic updates installed. Having turned this off, I now want to restart the copy, but of course, the very smart Windows copy routine tells me there is not enough space on the destination drive to copy all A to D folders as it checks for space without consideration of duplicate / existing files at destination... so the only way I can see is to erase all copied folders and start again... bloody stupid.
I have tried Robocopy, FastCopy, SimpleCopy but I cannot get a piece of SW that can just copy the MISSING / NON EXISTENT files in the destination drive. Some of these programs do not even let me select Folders A - D...
How can I copy the missing files only, without having Win 7 check for available space before starting the process?
Not sure that there is a way. Have you looked at SyncToy. It is an MS software and might be able to help you with that. The other thing that you can do; assuming you are using some sort of smb copy and not ftp or anything; why not mount the windows drive on the linux box and do the coping on the linux box rather than on the windows box?

Unzip too slow for transfer of many files

We need to distribute lots of small jpg files to offline systems. Right now, we send it as a 7zip (or plain zip) which is 800MB (230K files) and use 7zip to unzip it. It is taking about an hour to unzip on fairly large 4 core processors.
Is there a way on windows7 (or win server 2008) to create and unpack a package of files of this size in a more reasonable time frame?
(I will entertain even far out answers such as: put this all in a single CloudDB database as binary blobs and then ship the archive to the target machine, or create a VM, or a virtual disk image - but I will need some pointers to tips on doing that sort of stuff).
So then here's your far out answer: ;)
The problem probably doesn't lie in computing power. The filesystem and/or harddisk are the bottleneck most likely.
For Win7 (and afaik Server2008 as well) you could use a Virtual Hard Disk instead of zipping it. Win7 has native support for VHD-files and can emulate the content as a drive or subfolder via Disk Management. So there would be no need to unzip the files.
I had the same problem, and solved it. The issue is likely the Windows Attachment Service, which subjects downloaded or attached zip files to additional scrutiny for security reasons.
To bypass this:
Right-click the file
Choose Properties
Check Unblock
For more info, see: Why is WinZip slow?
I spoke to some colleagues, and they might have an easier solution. Since the size is under 4GB, and I want READ-ONLY access, I can create an ISO image, and then mount it on win7 or win2008server, using this Microsoft utility:
This utility enables users of Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 to mount ISO disk image files as virtual CD-ROM drives.

Windows Phone Power Tool (Pre WP-8) Fails To Load Folder Content

My environment : Win7, VS2010 Pro, Windows Phone Emulator 10.1.40219.390, HTC T8788, Windows Phone Power Tool v1.6.
I need to Get multiple files (they are <3kb json files) to my dev box from a folder on my emulator/device. I had been happily doing this with Isolated Explorer command tool and/or Windows Phone Power Tool till the number of files was very limited. As soon as the number of files increased in the folder both the tools mentioned above failed to open the folder from device. The application on device and emulator is handling large number of files as expected (tested with 4000+ files). Following are my findings regarding the issue with WPPT (and IS explorer): if a folder contains more than 1024 files, WPPT does not load the folder. The physical size of individual file in the folder does not matter. The issue can be reproduced with same effect on emulator and device. On further investigation I found that WPPT breaks at a call to Microsoft.SmartDevice.Connectivity.RemoteIsolatedStorageFile.GetDirectoryListing() which just says - "Unspecified error" with no details. It seems the said API method is now obsolete and i could not find any substantial information on MSDN about it or the issue
Did somebody else also encounter this problem? Is there some way I can pull large number of files (4000+) to my dev box from IS folder on device/emulator (please note, i can only work with the environment mentioned above, so Win8 or WP8 emulator are out of question)?
Regards.

make a pen drive appear as a cd?

I have a .exe file in my pen drive sitting in a long chain of directories
(driveLetter:\dir1\dir2....\dir8\program.exe)
Now I don't wanna go through all those directories to get to the file and run it,
Problem is that in Windows7, running a .exe file with the autorun.inf open command doesn't work anymore in pen drives but it does in CDs, that's why I wanna make my pen drive appear like a CD to windows upon insertion.
Please don't ask me if I'm writing a virus here, cuz I'm not.
Any ideas how can I achieve this ?
if making it appear as a CD won't work, is there a way to run the .exe file
(I know, this might be a separate Q)
Thank you so much for anything you can provide me with.
You can make a flash drive use autorun by having the autorun and exe file in the default directory (i.e.: not a dozen folders deep). That's how I've done it when installing W7 on computers without a CD drive.
Here's what Windows 7 autorun.inf looks like
[Autorun.Amd64]
open=setup64.exe
icon=setup64.exe,0
[Autorun]
open=setup.exe
icon=setup.exe,0
It's pretty straight-forward: the top one is for a 64-bit OS, while the bottom is for 32-bit.
Since 2011, Microsoft has removed the autorun.inf option, so it will not work, not even if CD drivers will replace the current drivers. Both CDs and flash drives can't be automatically started without at least a prompt shown to the end user. That is for security reasons.

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