I was loggin into the C$ on a Desktop on the network to migrate data to a replacment desktop....., It took about 15 minutes to display the contents on the drive:

 

 

 

 

Acrobat gone crazy. Also, I bet a PNG would've resulted in a smaller filesize with much better quality.

Well you really answered your own question. You can fit 35,069 on there.

On the plus side however, that looks like a great candidate for compression!

 Thats the price you pay for using Acrobat....

Edit: Ok, I was too late. Sorry. But Acrobat sucks anyway.

 About 10,000 of the files are Excel ranging from 100k to 300Mb and there is also a few +4Gb Access DB's

BOFH:

 About 10,000 of the files are Excel ranging from 100k to 300Mb and there is also a few +4Gb Access DB's

 

Was there a inmail.txt and an outmail.txt? search.exe?

Time to clean out, and educate the user. (which I am sure will bring perfect results)

Back to work!

BOFH:

About 10,000 of the files are Excel ranging from 100k to 300Mb and there is also a few +4Gb Access DB's

What the hell are in those things?! I've never seen so many Office files, especially of those size (300MB spreadsheet?!), on any computer. Also, by everything being on root, I would assume that an illiterate is at the controls. However, the illiterates tend to dump in My Documents. *headdesk*

AbbydonKrafts:

Also, by everything being on root, I would assume that an illiterate is at the controls. However, the illiterates tend to dump in My Documents. *headdesk*

 

And yet everyone swears at MS for 'hiding' the root of the drive...    *sigh* 

BOFH:

 About 10,000 of the files are Excel ranging from 100k to 300Mb and there is also a few +4Gb Access DB's

Must be in subfolders, because at the bottom of the window, Explorer's telling you that the files total 1.83 GB.

unless Explorer's total is way off...  

belgariontheking:

unless Explorer's total is way off...  

 

Psssh. Noob. MS invented math.

MasterPlanSoftware:

Psssh. Noob. MS invented math.

 

 

It's "n00b".   n00b, gtfo. 

BOFH:

 a few +4Gb Access DB's

 

Open one of them up. Tools -> Database Utilities -> Compact and Repair Database

Just scored you 3+GB there first try ... ;-)

medialint:

Open one of them up. Tools -> Database Utilities -> Compact and Repair Database

Access does manage to throw in a lot of bloat on each trip around, doesn't it?

How the heck do you come up with your tags? I keep wanting to laugh everytime I see them.

Lysis:

MasterPlanSoftware:

Psssh. Noob. MS invented math.

 

 

It's "n00b".   n00b, gtfo. 

 

Get with the times, its "nub"...you're both a bunch of newbies! 

AbbydonKrafts:

Also, by everything being on root, I would assume that an illiterate is at the controls. However, the illiterates tend to dump in My Documents. *headdesk*

Ah, bringing me back to my days as "the computer guy" at my high school, and the secretary there.  Now, it's my impression that a large part of a secretary's job involved working with documents in an organized fashion.  Imagine my surprise when she called me to say that her documents were "missing".

"Where'd you save the file?" I asked.

"On the computer?" she said.

facepalm.  "No, like what folder did you put it in?"

"I told you, I put it in the computer, not the filing cabinet."

Guh.  Time to use that search feature... "What did you name the file?"

"Huh?  I didn't name it.  It's not a person."  She must have been thinking to herself, "geez, they think this kid is smart?  sounds like an idiot to me".

Finally I came to find out that she was just typing up her documents and they were defaulting their names to firstLineOfText.lwp, and Lotus would show the list of n most recent documents on startup.  So when it came time to retrieve a file that wasn't in the top n, it must not have existed anymore....

So I showed her how to actually go open the file (conveniently located in "My Documents" along with everything else.  She kindly thanked me for "fixing" her computer.

Two weeks later I got a call that another one of her files had disappeared and she needed me to come over and "do whatever it was that I did before".  I guess it was a particularly unlucky day because that note disappeared just like her file and I never saw it....

Soviut:

Lysis:

MasterPlanSoftware:

Psssh. Noob. MS invented math.

 

 

It's "n00b".   n00b, gtfo. 

 

Get with the times, its "nub"...you're both a bunch of newbies! 

 

 

Umm no, actually it's n00b.  n00b is a person who has no clue and is "new".  "nub" is a person who SHOULD know what he's doing because he's been doing it for a while, but he's so clueless he still acts like a dumb n00b.

Oh wait....maybe you're right and MasterAsshat is a nub.  My bad. 

MasterPlanSoftware:

And yet everyone swears at MS for 'hiding' the root of the drive...    *sigh* 

 

Because it's still a pain in the arse. Making it harder to access the root of the drive should have been preceded by an effort to make it less necessary to access the root of the drive.

Of course, it's bound to take a while since MS has always allowed software vendors to throw their shit all through the filesystem.

I wish MS had copied more from BSD than just the TCP/IP stack. A healthy respect for the benefits of software installation conventions would have been great.

drinkingbird:

Because it's still a pain in the arse.

 

Not for anyone who is intelligent enough to turn it off... it takes two seconds.

drinkingbird:

Making it harder to access the root of the drive should have been preceded by an effort to make it less necessary to access the root of the drive.

I cannot remember the last time I NEEDED to access the root of the drive... This sounds like PEBKAC.

drinkingbird:

A healthy respect for the benefits of software installation conventions would have been great.

They have standards. Program Files has been around for a long time. Just because stupid people don't understand the best practices, and therefore don't use them is hardly MS's fault.

I am pleased to see them finally enforcing these, but now all you hear is how "MS broke my Windows! I can't install my program!", It is always a balancing act. People are not going to get any less stupid no matter what MS does.

drinkingbird:

MasterPlanSoftware:

And yet everyone swears at MS for 'hiding' the root of the drive...    *sigh* 

 

Because it's still a pain in the arse. Making it harder to access the root of the drive should have been preceded by an effort to make it less necessary to access the root of the drive.

Of course, it's bound to take a while since MS has always allowed software vendors to throw their shit all through the filesystem.

I wish MS had copied more from BSD than just the TCP/IP stack. A healthy respect for the benefits of software installation conventions would have been great.

I sometimes wonder if anyone at MS ha considered following Apple's lead and basing Windows 8 on one of the BSDs, and including thier own 64-bit WINE equivalent for backwards compatability. For those few who still want to run 32-bit apps in 6-8 years time when it would be released could use the now-current version of WINE, which is supposedly complete for 32-bit Windows. Since it would take a lot of work and probably lead to major compatability problems to "fix" Windows, it might be better to do this.

Physics Phil:

I sometimes wonder if anyone at MS ha considered following Apple's lead and basing Windows 8 on one of the BSDs, and including thier own 64-bit WINE equivalent for backwards compatability. For those few who still want to run 32-bit apps in 6-8 years time when it would be released could use the now-current version of WINE, which is supposedly complete for 32-bit Windows. Since it would take a lot of work and probably lead to major compatability problems to "fix" Windows, it might be better to do this.

 

That would be ridiculous and stupid. Good lord. 

I would ask "What major issues are there to fix that they cannot work out over time?" but that is what you want. You are trying to start another OS jihad flamewar...

drinkingbird:

I wish MS had copied more from BSD than just the TCP/IP stack.

MS doesn't even use the BSD TCP/IP stack anymore.

 

Physics Phil:

I sometimes wonder if anyone at MS ha considered following Apple's lead and basing Windows 8 on one of the BSDs, and including thier own 64-bit WINE equivalent for backwards compatability. For those few who still want to run 32-bit apps in 6-8 years time when it would be released could use the now-current version of WINE, which is supposedly complete for 32-bit Windows. Since it would take a lot of work and probably lead to major compatability problems to "fix" Windows, it might be better to do this.

This would be one of the dumbest moves Microsoft could make.  Apple didn't use Open Source software because they believed it was better or because they believe in freedom, the company was practically bankrupt and they couldn't invest the millions of dollars and years of development time in developing a world-class OS like Microsoft did.  Over time Apple has refined their core OS components, closing the sources of many.   Anyway, WINE is a P.O.S. and I find the idea that anybody would consider it a full replacement for Windows laughable.  God, are people really this ignorant of how the software industry is? 

morbiuswilters:

God, are people really this ignorant of how the software industry is? 

 

Apparently. We now have dlikhten, drinkingbird, Physics Phil and ZiggyFish mindlessly campaigning this anti-MS garbage. Not a single one can provide a single intelligent argument that doesn't boil down to "MS is for n00bs!"

morbiuswilters:

Anyway, WINE is a P.O.S. and I find the idea that anybody would consider it a full replacement for Windows laughable.

 

Some of the closed source forks from WINE are better, but they all target a small part of the entire Windows continuum.  And even then, you still have to do application-specific configurations to get anything to work consistently.  So, in essence, my post can be boiled down to: "Agreed."