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Friday 10 October 2008
 Number  1724
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Subjects for today
 
1  Re:  ftp://ftp.pmoylan dot org up and running again : Ian Manners" <deadmail>
2  Re:  How to use FM/2 to show directory sizes sorted : Ed Durrant <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>
3  Re:  How to use FM/2 to show directory sizes sorted : Ed Durrant <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>
4  Re:  How to use FM/2 to show directory sizes sorted : Ed Durrant <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>
5  Re:  How to use FM/2 to show directory sizes sorted : Voytek Eymont" <voytek at sbt dot net dot au>
6  Re:  How to use FM/2 to show directory sizes sorted : Voytek Eymont" <voytek at sbt dot net dot au>
7  Re:  How to use FM/2 to show directory sizes sorted : Voytek Eymont" <voytek at sbt dot net dot au>
8  Re:  How to use FM/2 to show directory sizes sorted : Ed Durrant <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>
9  Re:  How to use FM/2 to show directory sizes sorted : Ed Durrant <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>
10  Re:  How to use FM/2 to show directory sizes sorted : Ed Durrant <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>
11   FIREFOX FILE ASSOCIATIONS : Nicholas Lysaght" <nicholasrf at gmail dot com>
12  Re:  How to use FM/2 to show directory sizes sorted : Mike O'Connor <mikeoc at internode.on dot net>
13  Re:  How to use FM/2 to show directory sizes sorted : Mike O'Connor <mikeoc at internode.on dot net>
14  Re:  How to use FM/2 to show directory sizes sorted : Ed Durrant <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>
15  Re:  How to use FM/2 to show directory sizes sorted : Ed Durrant <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>

**= Email   1 ==========================**

Date:  Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:29:32 +1100 (EDT)
From:  "Ian Manners" <deadmail>
Subject:  Re:  ftp://ftp.pmoylan dot org up and running again

Not as bad as me, I upgraded FTPServer here and then
forgot to restart it, took 12 days until someone was kind
enough to complain :-)

 On Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:04:27 +1100, Peter Moylan wrote:

>Somebody - I think it was Ian Manners - told me that my FTP server at 
>pmoylan dot org was refusing connections. It should now be working again.
>
>It was a stupid error on my part. I introduced a new feature, and then 
>tested it by banning practically everyone. And of course I forgot to 
>remove that test filter.
>

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**= Email   2 ==========================**

Date:  Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:04:39 +1100
From:  Ed Durrant <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>
Subject:  Re:  How to use FM/2 to show directory sizes sorted

Peter Rehfisch wrote:
> Ed Durrant wrote
>
>   
>>  I need to list all directories under a directory in size order. I have 
>> FM/2 which appears to have this feature but it never finishes building 
>> its index.
>>
>>     
>
> Under eCS, if you RMB on the directory and chose Folder actions -> Show tree size it seems to 
> do it.
>
> Peter R

>  

>
>   
Wow, that was simple ! Thanks, that's just what I need ! Now if I could 
capture and sort that list largest to smallest it'd be even better, but 
I can go through this looking for the largest directories to see if I 
can remove anything from them in any case, Thanks again.

Cheers/2

Ed.

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**= Email   3 ==========================**

Date:  Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:15:20 +1100
From:  Ed Durrant <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>
Subject:  Re:  How to use FM/2 to show directory sizes sorted

Voytek Eymont wrote:
> <quote who="Ed Durrant">
>
>   
>> Can anyone tell me if there is a way to do this with FM/2 or if you
>> know of a different tool that will do this.
>>     
>
> I think... I have... used to have... ? a rexx script to backup to CDs...
> I thought it did something like that...?
> if I can find it...
>
> something like sysfiletree ?
>
> /* get HD specs */
>         arg1=substr(arg1,1,1)
>         source=SysDriveInfo(arg1)
>         PARSE VAR source sdrive sfree stotal slabel
>
>         arg2a=substr(arg2,1,1)
>         target=SysDriveInfo(arg2a)
>         PARSE VAR target tdrive tfree ttotal tlabel
> /* convert bytes to MB */
>         sfree = TRUNC((sfree/(1024*1024)),,)
>         stotal= TRUNC((stotal/(1024*1024)),,)
>         sused = stotal - sfree
>         tfree = TRUNC((tfree/(1024*1024)),,)
>         ttotal= TRUNC((ttotal/(1024*1024)),,)
>         tused = ttotal - tfree
>
>
>   
Thanks Voytek,

   I was thinking of writing something in Rexx and indeed you piece of 
code could form the heart of it. If I produce a table of all filenames, 
sizes etc. I could also check for duplicate copies of files in different 
sub-directories at the same time. Initially I'll try the GUI based 
folder options /Show tree size that Peter suggested. But as a longer 
term solution Rexx has to be the way to go.

Cheers/2

Ed.
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**= Email   4 ==========================**

Date:  Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:29:05 +1100
From:  Ed Durrant <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>
Subject:  Re:  How to use FM/2 to show directory sizes sorted

Mike O'Connor wrote:
> Ed Durrant wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>  I need to list all directories under a directory in size order. I 
>> have FM/2 which appears to have this feature but it never finishes 
>> building its index.
>>
>>  Can anyone tell me if there is a way to do this with FM/2 or if you 
>> know of a different tool that will do this.
>>
>>  I am trying to reduce the size of a tree of directories so that the 
>> total size comes down small enough to fit on a standard DVD-R disk.
>>
>> Cheers/2
>>
>> Ed. 
> Hi Ed,
>
> Sent you a private mail as I had included a graphic and a sample 
> output text file of >100KB.
>
> Regards,
> Mike
 
>
> 

>
Thanks got that and replied, but the dir sizes option of FM/2 that you 
suggest using is the part of FM/2 that just sits at "working" forever.

Cheers/2

Ed.
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**= Email   5 ==========================**

Date:  Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:55:23 +1100 (EST)
From:  "Voytek Eymont" <voytek at sbt dot net dot au>
Subject:  Re:  How to use FM/2 to show directory sizes sorted


<quote who="Ed Durrant">

> sizes etc. I could also check for duplicate copies of files in different
> sub-directories at the same time.

Ed,
there is/was an excellent de-duplicator, I think... ERacer ?

-- 
Voytek

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**= Email   6 ==========================**

Date:  Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:59:57 +1100 (EST)
From:  "Voytek Eymont" <voytek at sbt dot net dot au>
Subject:  Re:  How to use FM/2 to show directory sizes sorted


<quote who="Voytek Eymont">

> there is/was an excellent de-duplicator, I think... ERacer ?

http://www.os2ezine dot com/v3n05/eracer.htm


-- 
Voytek

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**= Email   7 ==========================**

Date:  Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:39:49 +1100 (EST)
From:  "Voytek Eymont" <voytek at sbt dot net dot au>
Subject:  Re:  How to use FM/2 to show directory sizes sorted



<quote who="Ed Durrant">

> Can anyone tell me if there is a way to do this with FM/2 or if you
> know of a different tool that will do this.

I think... I have... used to have... ? a rexx script to backup to CDs...
I thought it did something like that...?
if I can find it...

Ed,

I'll email you several scripts I have from Marcus for zipping 700MB at a
time to a CDR, I've never used them, but, that might be of use to you,
perhaps


-- 
Voytek

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**= Email   8 ==========================**

Date:  Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:43:01 +1100
From:  Ed Durrant <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>
Subject:  Re:  How to use FM/2 to show directory sizes sorted

Voytek Eymont wrote:
> <quote who="Ed Durrant">
>
>   
>> sizes etc. I could also check for duplicate copies of files in different
>> sub-directories at the same time.
>>     
>
> Ed,
> there is/was an excellent de-duplicator, I think... ERacer ?
>
>   
I cant find eracer on Hobbes but there are the following utilities, that 
might be good to try:

dupfind
finddup
clone cleaner

Cheers/2

Ed.
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**= Email   9 ==========================**

Date:  Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:46:56 +1100
From:  Ed Durrant <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>
Subject:  Re:  How to use FM/2 to show directory sizes sorted

Voytek Eymont wrote:
> <quote who="Voytek Eymont">
>
>   
>> there is/was an excellent de-duplicator, I think... ERacer ?
>>     
>
> http://www.os2ezine dot com/v3n05/eracer.htm
>
>
>   
OK, got that one as well now - thanks - I'll try the various options out 
and see which is best - the OS2ezine appears to say that eRacer/2 is the 
fastest and catches most duplicates - we'll see.

Cheers/2

Ed.
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**= Email   10 ==========================**

Date:  Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:51:14 +1100
From:  Ed Durrant <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>
Subject:  Re:  How to use FM/2 to show directory sizes sorted

Voytek Eymont wrote:
> <quote who="Ed Durrant">
>
>   
>> Can anyone tell me if there is a way to do this with FM/2 or if you
>> know of a different tool that will do this.
>>     
>
> I think... I have... used to have... ? a rexx script to backup to CDs...
> I thought it did something like that...?
> if I can find it...
>
> Ed,
>
> I'll email you several scripts I have from Marcus for zipping 700MB at a
> time to a CDR, I've never used them, but, that might be of use to you,
> perhaps
>
>
>   
Thanks again, but for now I'll see how I get on with the varios tree 
listing and duplicate find options.

If these don't work for me, I'll drop you a line, I guess it shouldn't 
be too difficult to take those rexx scripts and change them, but I don't 
want to zip the stuff going to the DVD (most of it is already zipped in 
any case) I just want a way to manage the size down to fit the available 
space. By being able to see which directories contain the most data, I 
have my prime targets to see if anything can go and in addition to that 
if I have a file appearing many times in the image file structure, I'll 
move it off into it's own "common" data sub directory and just keep one 
copy in the image that will be burnt to the data DVD.

Cheers/2

Ed.

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**= Email   11 ==========================**

Date:  Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:15:27 +0800
From:  "Nicholas Lysaght" <nicholasrf at gmail dot com>
Subject:   FIREFOX FILE ASSOCIATIONS

Hi All.

Have *finally* got around to updating Firefox to 2.0.0.17, but have found
that I am not able to setup File Associations.

Went to Tool > Options > File Types...Manage and opened the window to find
that everything is greyed out. So, for instance, I can't use Warp Vision to
view videos, or PM123 to listen to various sound formats.

Amazingly, when I was using Firefox 1.8x, I could actually listen to ABC
720AM here in Perth....strangely enough, through Warp Vision,  but she no
works now :-) I bet there's something I missed. Any ideas, please?

Regards

NICK

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**= Email   12 ==========================**

Date:  Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:23:10 +1000
From:  Mike O'Connor <mikeoc at internode.on dot net>
Subject:  Re:  How to use FM/2 to show directory sizes sorted

Ed Durrant wrote:
> Mike O'Connor wrote:
>> Ed Durrant wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>  I need to list all directories under a directory in size order. I 
>>> have FM/2 which appears to have this feature but it never finishes 
>>> building its index.
>>>
>>>  Can anyone tell me if there is a way to do this with FM/2 or if you 
>>> know of a different tool that will do this.
>>>
>>>  I am trying to reduce the size of a tree of directories so that the 
>>> total size comes down small enough to fit on a standard DVD-R disk.
>>>
>>> Cheers/2
>>>
>>> Ed. 
>> Hi Ed,
>>
>> Sent you a private mail as I had included a graphic and a sample 
>> output text file of >100KB.
> Thanks got that and replied, but the dir sizes option of FM/2 that you 
> suggest using is the part of FM/2 that just sits at "working" forever.
>
> Cheers/2
Hi Ed,

Just wondering two things.

1. what version of FM/2 are you using - the current 3.13 (September 
2008) or an older one?
2. are you running dirsizes against your HDD master ori against your DVD?

Regards,
Mike
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**= Email   13 ==========================**

Date:  Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:25:43 +1000
From:  Mike O'Connor <mikeoc at internode.on dot net>
Subject:  Re:  How to use FM/2 to show directory sizes sorted

Voytek Eymont wrote:
> <quote who="Ed Durrant">
>> sizes etc. I could also check for duplicate copies of files in different
>> sub-directories at the same time.
> Ed,
> there is/was an excellent de-duplicator, I think... ERacer ?
Hi Voytek, Ed,

Another good one is Clone250 by Edward Marsh, that I have.

Regards,
Mike


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**= Email   14 ==========================**

Date:  Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:01:18 +1100
From:  Ed Durrant <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>
Subject:  Re:  How to use FM/2 to show directory sizes sorted

Mike O'Connor wrote:
> Hi Ed,
>
> Just wondering two things.
>
> 1. what version of FM/2 are you using - the current 3.13 (September 
> 2008) or an older one?
> 2. are you running dirsizes against your HDD master ori against your DVD?
>
> Regards,
> Mike
Version 3.1 March 2008 - so I could try the newer version.

I'm looking at the directories on the harddisk.

Cheers/2

Ed.
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**= Email   15 ==========================**

Date:  Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:02:24 +1100
From:  Ed Durrant <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>
Subject:  Re:  How to use FM/2 to show directory sizes sorted

Mike O'Connor wrote:
> Voytek Eymont wrote:
>> <quote who="Ed Durrant">
>>> sizes etc. I could also check for duplicate copies of files in 
>>> different
>>> sub-directories at the same time.
>> Ed,
>> there is/was an excellent de-duplicator, I think... ERacer ?
> Hi Voytek, Ed,
>
> Another good one is Clone250 by Edward Marsh, that I have.
>
> Regards,
> Mike
>
Yes I downloaded clone250 from Hobbes this morning - hopefully I'll get 
around to testing these over the weekend.

Cheers/2

Ed.
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