Who locks a file in windows 10 ?

 I found myself  oncemore with this annoyting predicament in windows where you wish to change a folder's name and it is locked by some mysterious process. 

Although I had dealt with this issue in the past ("How to find who locks a file on Windows - and how to release it if a service is the locker") it has been a while since that post, and it seemed wise to see if there are more convenient answers... and there are ! 

The following superuser thread "Find out which process is locking a file or folder in Windows" turned beneficial, and the gist of the advice I best liked was: 

1. Run the Resource Monitor (resmon.exe from the search box)
2. Go to the cpu tab
3. In the associated handles section search for part of the folder name that is locked

And now you can handle it !

It is surprising how many times it is word who for some reason keeps a handle long after a file has been closed.

איך להכריח את גוגל קלנדר להסתנכרן ?

גוגל קלנדר, כלי שאני משתמש בו במשך תקופה ארוכה-ארוכה (כמו מאות מיליוני משתמשים ברחבי העולם, עד כמה שחיפושי גוגל יכולים ללמד), ושחשבתי שהוא אמין ברמה גבוהה, הפתיע אותי מאוד הבוקר. 

מצאתי עצמי נתקל במצב של חוסר סנכרון בין היומן בפלאפון ליומן בדסקטופ (כלומר, בין אפליקציית קלנדר לבין קלנדר בweb), ולא שינה מה עשיתי, הם לא הסתנכרנו. 

הבעיה היתה מטרידה במיוחד כי לכאורה הבנתי מה יצר אותה - בעיות רשת ביתיות ברביעי בערב הביאו לכך שאירועים שקבעתי בעודי בדרכים לא הסתנכרנו כשחזרתי הביתה (כי הפלאפון אמור להסתנכרן בהקשרי לנתוני גוגל רק כשהוא מתחבר לרשת ביתית אמינה, והיא, כאמור סבלה מבעיות). הרשת חזרה לאיתנה במהלך חמישי, אבל הפלאפון לא הסתנכרן בהקשר  של נתוני גוגל שלו, ולא שמתי לב לזה עד הבוקר. 

אבל כששמתי לב וניסיתי לתקן זאת - זה פשוט לא עבד. סנכרון פשוט מהאפליקציה ? לא עבד. נסיונות להוריד ולהוסיף יומנים לתצוגה? לא עבדו. גרוע מזה, בשלב הזה התברר לי שגם אירועים שנקבעו קודם לכן לא הופיעו בדסקטופ, ולכך לא מצאתי שום סיבה טובה.

מה שמסבך את ההבנה של השאלה מדוע ולמה נוצרה בעיית הסנכרון. ההשערה המובילה , לדעתי, היא שבעיות במבנה המידע אצל גוגל במסגרת תהליכי רשתות הנתונים שלהם שנפתרו אצלם, בשלב מסויים, אבל 'שהתלבשו' על בעיית הסנכרון אצלי. כלומר, הנתונים היו שם כל הזמן, אבל מאיזושהיא סיבה, חלקם לא הוצגו. 

איך כל זה נפתר? (ושוב, אנחנו עוסקים כאן בהשערה לגבי הפתרון, כי למרבה הצער אין אפשרות לראות את התמונה המלאה מהצד של ניהול הנתונים אצל גוגל) 

הוספתי אירוע מדומה בדיוק באותו זמן שבו היה קבוע אירוע אמיתי ישן שמשום מה נעלם מהקלנדר בדסקטופ. שניה אחרי זה כל הנתונים "הנעלמים" הופיעו מחדש. 

אז אם יש לך בעיית סנכרון בגוגל קלנדר, והיא לא נעלמת למרות כל האמצעים המקובלים, יתכן שהוספת אירוע מדומה תשכנע את גוגל קלנדר להסתנכרן. 

Windows Explorers blending into each other?

 tired of your windows blending into each other? 

1. Go Start\Settings\System\About\Advanced system settings\ advanced 
2. Click the settings button for the Performance 
3. Search for the checkbox "Show shadows under windows" and if it is unchecked, check it, and if it is checked, uncheck it and recheck it. 
4. Apply. 

and the old interface presentation is back ! 

Found the solution on this superuser.com answer. If you prefer their style of explanation, I found the third answer most helpful. 

“This User Cannot Play This Software” in a new Nintendo Switch

My kid bought a new Nintendo switch, as the older one started showing its age. But he kept getting a message - “This User Cannot Play This Software” - despite our transferring his user and save-data from the older switch according to the official guide.

Going over the official guide regarding this error message, it turned out that we missed something pretty basic, that seemed worth documenting. the Nintendo Account that purchased the game should have the new switch as its primary console.

Yes ! On a non-primary console, the game can only be started by the player that owns the game.

How do you make the new switch the primary console for the user you used to buy the games? in our case we had to do two moves:

1) deregister the primary console from that user :

• go to accounts.nintendo.com.
• Sign in with the user account you used in buying
• Choose "Shop Menu".
• Choose "Deregister Primary Console"

2) enter the Eshop, using the same user on the new switch.

That's all.

How to convert mp4 to avi in windows with the built-in tools ?

As is the common practice with office users, so are home users. And the wife recalled in the last minute that she needed to convert some videos sent to her through WhatsApp for a digital framework of her mother's. In other words, she needed to convert a small number of video files from mp4 to avi. 

Officially, it appears that windows 10 or 11 do not bring an official solution for such conversions and that one is supposed to download an app for this purpose from Windows store. 

However, since windows 10, the Photos built-in app, has this ability to convert between video formats (btw, Photos is also a rather convenient small-scale video editor for the smaller types of editing tasks one might need, and is probably the most convenient solution I know to extract still images from a video). 

How do we do that? 

1) save you mp4 file 

2) right-click on the mp4 and choose "open with" 

3) choose Photos 

4) in Photos, click save-as (you might want to stop the video from playing, as it is a nuisance)

5) and choose the "avi" format (or whatever other format you need and Photos supports). 

That is all. 

Where does adobe scan saves files on android ?

Usually, when I need to photocopy a file, and have only my cellphone around for that, I choose to use the camera app. But as I needed to photocopy a rather important document for another person, I thought that perhaps it was time to enter the world of scanning software. 

Remembering the dangers of appearing to be useful apps on the Google store, I chose to go safe, and downloaded Adobe's scan app. It is a very easy to operate app, performing excellently which made me very pleased, till the moment I wanted to copy those PDFs that were created to my computer. Sure, I could email them, but I have this habit of wishing to know where files are created on my cellphone, and to be able to move them to wherever they should be, according to my own organizational preferences. 

But searching as much as I did, I could not find those files. Hence I googled the question where does adobe scan saves files on android, and I found the answer on Adobe's community forums. 

It turns out Adobe does not keep does files on the cellphone, but instead, on their Adobe Document cloud (https://cloud.acrobat.com) (There was probably a statement in those small lettered terms of use, but you know how reading these usually goes... ) 

So, logging into the Adobe Document cloud from my PC, using the google identity that is the main one of my cell phone (which is the equivalent of the Adobe ID + Password), I was able to find those files with ease. 

a small tale regarding home backups policy: dropbox version history

I've written in the past a post about how home networks are becoming rather similar to the small offices of the past, and regarding my home-network backup solution, and a small event today reminded my how a good backup policy can make life so much easier. 

My kid was  drawing something, and as it sometimes happens to any computer user, he accidentally saved his recent work over a pervious stage that he needed for later. Most home backup solutions leave you empty handed as a home-system-administrator. 

But our choice in dropbox as our home  backup solution meant that I could come to the rescue. Using version history we quickly found the previous version, copied aside the most recent, and restored. 

If you don't know about dropbox version history, you might wish to read about it in their help section.

It isn't a feature you use everyday, but over the last few years since it has been introduced, it has been a life-saver on more than one occasion. 

p.s 

Just to make it clear: this isn't anything sponsored by dropbox. I am an independent user of this service, paying like all their users, and just wanted to recommend a really helpful service.