File Manipulation
7-Zip |
I always use 7-Zip for all my file compression and decompression needs. Its native 7-Zip format provides better compression and encryption than the other formats it supports (7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP, WIM; AR, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DMG, EXT, FAT, GPT, HFS, IHEX, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, QCOW2, RAR, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, UEFI, VDI, VHD, VMDK, WIM, XAR, and Z). |
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Cobian Backup |
If you are looking for a stable and reliable application to safeguarding your data, Cobian Backup will not disappoint you. Although it has some idiosyncrasies, it will meet your basic expectations of a backup-to-disk software. |
Windirstat |
With today’s complex operating systems and software, you can easily fill up your hard disk and get stuck with very small free space. You will need a good and intuitive tool to analyze your disk usage and clean up wasted space. For this purpose, you can use Windirstat which is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for various versions of Microsoft Windows. |
Disk Usage Analyzer |
After switching to Linux, I started using Disk Usage Analyzer (also known as baobab). |
Renamer |
You may come to a position where you have to rename a bunch of files
according to some conditions.
Renamer is such a tool
which will allow to do this by specifying some string replacement rule sets
(simple insert, delete, replace or more complex regular expressions, etc.) and
even writing your own Pascal script, so that you may rename a file based on
its contents (for example, rename JPEG files based on the information in their
EXIF header).
Renamer Lite is a free version which can be used only for non-commercial
purposes. There is also a Proversion with extra features and removed limitations. The Liteversion will suit your everyday needs. |
File Synchronization |
You may need to store multiple copies of some media or data files
on removable disks or network locations. In this case, frequently you
will face the problem of keeping those locations in sync. The
following tools will help you doing this:
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