Articles Tagged “File System”
4 articles tagged “File System”, newest first.
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How Does a Windows Shortcut Find a File You Moved? — A File's Location and Its Identity Are Two Different Things
Why does a shortcut still open a file you moved? Windows can find the target from tracking identifiers and file characteristics, not just the stored path, wi...
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OneDrive Files On-Demand and Business Apps — The Assumptions Placeholders Break and How to Fix Them
A desktop CSV will not open or an import fails with "file not found": OneDrive's KFM and Files On-Demand may be why. Covers placeholders, attribute checks, a...
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The Depths of Windows I/O (Part 5) — NTFS Internals: Understanding the File System Through the MFT
An illustrated Part 5 on NTFS internals for developers: the MFT, file records, data streams, hard links, 8.3 names, reparse points, journals, sparseness, and...
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The Depths of Windows I/O (Part 4) — Cache Manager: When Does Your WriteFile Actually Reach the Disk?
Part 4 of a diagram-led Windows Cache Manager series. It covers the cache as a file mapping, read-ahead, lazy writing, FlushFileBuffers, FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERI...