If you are in need of increasing space on any drive (mainly in regards to servers), I highly recommend this tool: AOMEI Partition Assistant (PA) A great tool that is easy to use and works! Just a few notes: MAKE A BACKUP OF ALL DRIVES BEFORE STARTING! - DO THIS, don't be lazy and regret…
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SSH zip only certain types of files recursively on Linux
If you are looking for a command to run via ssh that ZIPs all files (of a certain type) recursively here you go: 1 - Switch into the website folder, then run zip -R YOURZIPFILENAME '*.php' '*.html' '*.js' '*.css' 2 - You can also run this from outside the website folder: zip -r YOURZIPFILENAME website_folder…
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How to clone a hard drive to a new solid state disk (SSD)
Installing a solid-state drive (SSD) is one of the best upgrades you can make to your computer, but migrating your Windows installation can be tricky, because your data might not all fit on the drive. UPDATE: If you are doing lots of cloning, make it easy and simply buy a offline clone device from Amazon:…
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Allow user ec2-user (Amazon AWS) write access
To allow user ec2-user (Amazon AWS) write access to the public web directory (/home6/producw6/public_html/blackmoretech), enter this command via Putty or Terminal, as the root user sudo: chown -R ec2-user /home6/producw6/public_html/blackmoretech Make sure permissions on that entire folder were correct: chmod -R 755 /home6/producw6/public_html/blackmoretech
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Unprotect an excel sheet without password
If you have ever protected an excel sheet; forgot the password or got a excel sheet and needed the password to edit it, here is how to "unlock it": http://uknowit.uwgb.edu/page.php?id=28850 Here is the VBA code that you will need to crack and show you the password: Sub PasswordBreaker() 'Breaks worksheet password protection. Dim…
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How to create folder on amazon ec2 linux
To create a folder in the root directory through an ssh terminal and use that folder for your application: sudo mkdir /myApp Next, set write permissions to myApp folder sudo chmod -R 777 myApp Done, now you can add/edit files in that directory as ec2-user!
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How to upload files and folders to AWS EC2 instance as ec2-user
Log into your EC2 instance via SSH as ec2-user than SU to root user and enter this command: chown -R ec2-user /path/to/files (Authenticate as the root user first.)
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Adobe Premiere cache folder cleanup
I ran into a disk space problem today with Adobe Premiere. Basically the application creates a media cache when it imports media and that media cache seems to default to the system drive in the user Library folder. This cache can balloon in size over a period of time. After some Googling I found this…
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Cannot change permissions when selecting multiple folders
Wow, just found this out. So now if you have Windows 7 OR Server 2008 or above you can't change folder/file permissions when selecting multiple folders... read more about it. I'll update if there is a GOOD solution. Update: Apparently it was purposely removed, according to this thread in the Server forums... http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/winserverfiles/thread/dbfa011b-7c27-4e1d-b1a4-f0f8839b2d46
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Batch rename file extensions
Simple but can be very useful. Open up a command prompt Go the file folder containing the files you need to rename Enter this: ren *.(current extension name) *.(extension you want) If done correctly it will rename all the file extensions to the specified one! Example: ren *.jpg *.png <<< this will rename all jpg…
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