Unix permissions control who can read, write or execute a file. You can limit it to the owner of the file, the group that owns it or the entire world. For security reasons, files and directories ...

Several Outlook users, on different forums, have reported encountering the error “OST file cannot be opened,” when trying to open the application or sending ...

Here, “Owner” pertains to the file owner who created the file/ directory. “Group” refers to a set of members, and “Others” are everyone else with access to the system. Each of these classes has a ...

NTFS, an acronym that stands for New Technology File System, is a file system first introduced by Microsoft in 1993 with the release of Windows NT 3.1. The Windows Server line of operating systems ...

When transferring text files between Linux/Unix and Windows systems, you may encounter issues with line breaks and file formatting. This is because Windows uses both a line feed (LF) and a carriage ...

Today, May 5, marked the second day of the Free Software Foundation's (FSF) sixteenth edition of its annual LibrePlanet conference. This year's theme was "Cultivating Community." The talks and ...

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I noticed that when extracting certain zip files (as I later saw zip files with entries with potentially invalid "external file attributes") I was getting an exception: System.ArgumentException: ...

The combination of the file access semantics and existing UNIX utilities such as grep and find that operate on multiple files allow the creation of very short but powerful system management procedures ...