Tag: Batch file
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How to force OneDrive to sync
I often take a photo with my phone so that I can use it on my PC. I use OneDrive’s automatic Camera Roll upload so it goes upto OneDrive in the cloud. Sometimes the PC does not notice the change in cloud and bring down the file. To force the PC to sync it is…
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List files, directories and sizes at the command prompt
Any Windows system administrator frequently has to find out why a disk is full and my favourite tool for this is Windirstat. Unfortunately Windirstat does not easily allow you to export the results to a CSV file for analysis. I intend to import the CSV file into Excel and then create a pivot table that…
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Play a wav sound when your ant build has completed
I have spent the day doing various ant builds. I leave the build running and sometimes don’t notice that it has finished or failed along the way. Wouldn’t it be nice if the ant script went beep on success or failure? Well at the Windows 7 command prompt you can do prompt> (CALL ant dist…
Dr James Bayley 