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PowerShell - fast remove a directory with 10,000+ files
I am sick of File Explorer's super slow deletion speed, so I tried to write a PowerShell script to make deletion faster, and while it does its job, its speed isn't as high as what I intended it to be.
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Delete folder if it exists in PowerShell
In my PowerShell script I'm trying to delete a folder, but only if it exists:
if (Test-Path $folder) { Remove-Item $folder -Recurse; }
I find myself repeating ...
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Creating a file of md5 hashes for all files in a directory in PowerShell
I have been trying to write the md5 hashes for all files in a directory and its subdirectories to a file. Ideally, replicating the output of the Unix command ...
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Powershell search millions of files as fast as possible
I once asked a similar question but in C#. Now I have the same problem in powershell..
What is the fastest way, to search files newer than 15 minutes, in a file system with more than 1 million files?
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Powershell script for zipping up old files
I have a script for zipping up old files. I know using Windows Compression isn't ideal, so I will make the script run using 7-Zip later on. For now though, I just want see how I can make my current ...
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Search files content fast in powershell
I need to search a large repository of files for a specific resource, and return it only if it is used or not.
It is working as expected, but it is very time consuming. To search for 50 resource ...
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Batch script to make folders hidden
I just wrote a simple script cmd to hide private folders by combining several scripts from the Internet. Can anyone give me suggestions for improvement?
This batch file uses a password hidden by ...
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downloading a list of urls
I wrote this quick (lots of googling) and dirty (I hope not too dirty) script to download a URL list with a win32 wget port and save them as files with the url as the name to use as a "poor man's url ...
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Powershell for syncing Minecraft save files
My code in full plus the task scheduler definition: https://gist.github.com/DaneWeber/0c5e7978bd3927734173e3afdc3d6338
This is my first non-trivial PowerShell script. This was a pretty major learning ...
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MD5 hash comparison for two folders
Using this page for a starting point into comparing MD5 hash values from files in two different folders, I've put something together that outputs either Copied if ...
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Get owner of ~5 million files and folders using Powershell and Robocopy
I've written a Powershell script that uses Robocopy to get the full path of all files on a drive and then run it through a foreach loop to get the owner for each file and generate it in a CSV. The ...
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Getting NTFS permissions of all shared folders on the local machine
How can I improve the speed of the script?
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Create share folder, AD security group, add descriptions, and apply security to new folder
My goal for this script was to:
Create new folder
Create AD group FS-TESTSHARE-R
Create AD group FS-TESTSHARE-RW
Apply both groups to the new share folder
Set full read permissions to FS-TESTSHARE-R
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Normalize video filenames and move files to destination directory
I have written a powershell script that will scan a directory for any *mkv, *.mp4, *.avi ...
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Syncing NTFS permissions with SMB share permissions
I recently wrote scripts to automate the setup of shares on a server using the New-SmbShare cmdlet. I hadn't realised that this cmdlet doesn't automatically amend ...
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Delete orphaned SIDS + change to full control
I need to delete all the orphaned SIDs in the ACLs of about 20 shares (between 100GB/6TB) and change full control of users groups to other permissions (modify or read/execute). I have done this script ...
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A PowerShell script like one-way rsync but worse
This PowerShell script works a bit like a one-way rsync; it's good enough for my Surface RT needs, anyway. However, seeing as this is my first PS script, and I was ...
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Copying files, renaming conflicts
I wrote a script to copy a file, but this file already exists in the target directory. So, first I need to rename the original file.
The script works, but a colleague did not want to use it because ...
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Powershell photo sorter/mover
I'm just beginning in Powershell - This will be my first full project, start to finish, and it's quite small. I have already had experience in C#, which helps in this .Net based language.
This ...
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