Pauls Technical Diary
Joining .trp .mpg .mp3 files
Tuesday, 08 February 2011 15:03 | Author: Paul |
  
Joining .trp .mpg .mp3 files from the dos prompt It can be useful sometimes to quickly join files that are part of the same track using the dos prompt. First open the dos prompt by running "cmd". Navigate to the folder in question and run: copy/b filename1.ext+filename2.ext newfilename.ext eg; "copy/b movie1.trp+movie2.trp wholemove.trp" This works with most files such as TRP, MPG and MP3 files. It may not work in files that have header information such as some AVI or MP4 files. |
Backup and Archive online and offline mail from Outlook, Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail etc..
Thursday, 03 February 2011 09:48 | Author: Paul |
Now I don't have to worry about google locking me out or someone hijacking my account, and as a bonus I have all my old emails going back many years from outlook. All kept in one place. There is even a portable USB version so you could run the archive from a USB memory key. Here's how you do it. 1. Download Mail Store Home Edition http://www.mailstore.com/en/mailstore-home.aspx 2. Install the program and follow the wizard to set up your achiving. 3. Allow the archiving to complete as it will take some time, expecially if you are backing up webmail from the internet. 4. Now you can search all your old mail easily in one place and offline. Last Updated (Thursday, 03 February 2011 10:07) Backup Windows NTFS Partition using Linux rescue disk
Tuesday, 23 November 2010 14:52 | Author: Paul |
Making a backup of you entire windows partition is a great recovery tool - if ever needed!! I have used PartImage from a number of different rescue disks (I think I may already have an article on this). However I struggled with my ntfs disk lately using a USB boot linux distribution. Here's how I did it. Create a bootable USB stick using linux....... 1). Download the distribution of linux you wish to use, I used "SystemrescueCD...." as this comes with partimage installed. 2) Download "Universal USB Installer..." utility and run this utility which will help you choose the USB disk and the downloaded linux file to install. Now boot your computer from the USB disk - most modern PCs & Laptops - you may need to press 'Esc' or F1 or some other key as your computer boots to select the boot menu. 1). You can enter either the command line or GUI version of linux. 2). Create a directory called d; mkdir /d 3). Mount the place you want to backup to (for me it was my windows d-drive which was on sda5) ntfs-3g /dev/sda5 /d 4) Run; partimage and select the partition you wish to backup followed by the path of your backup files & name eg; /d/Win7_backup_file I have not gone into detail of partimage as that is done many times on the web, but harder to find ntfs mounting with read/write capability. |
I have started using a free (for home use) mail archive program to keep an offline backup of all my e-mail. With this tool, I was able to make a backup of all my 'cloud' email from google mail, as well as all my old outlook email from pst files. It also backs up email attachments and then you have a very easily searchable database of all your emails.