Linux VM with important SMB shares mounted for access via SFTP ftw!

covaro

There is a program called getbymail which has been doing this sort of thing (and may other things) for a long time

geek22

This works if your exchange server is setup to send email via macros from the outlook client. To control outgoing spam, many corporate servers don't allow it.

aeronaut

If you're not already familiar with what your files are named, you could open notepad and paste the following line into it.

dir c:\*.* /s /b > c:\files.txt

Then save it as files.bat somewhere you'll remember it.

Now go and doubleclick on that file to run it and it will create a txt file in the root director which lists all of the files on your computer's C drive, including the directory name, but with no extraneous information like size or date.

Now all you have to do when you want to retrieve a file whose name or location you do not know is first retrieve by email the files.txt file, find what you are looking for, and then retrieve it.

You should re-run the batch file whenever you have made a lot of changes (or schedule it to run periodically) so you always have an up-to-date list.

--Jason

Jason

isn't orb a much simpler (and prettier) solution to this? Orb not only lets you access your music, movies, and pictures, but all of your documents as well. you can search through them too, if you don't remember where you put it. It will even compress multiple files into a zip so you can download them all at once.

pomokey

@Jason: Great idea!

nicoco

Whoa, I have been searching for something like this for a long time. Could you possibly use this to shut down your computer? So you could use the subject as "Shutdown" or "Power Off" and in the description, type the location of your shortcut for your computer to be powered off, like a desktop shortcut? Then when your computer reads that email, it would shut off the computer? Sometimes when I am away, I would like to shut my computer off(you know, prowling wondering eyes in my house) and they would never knew what was going on.

Is this possible?

ma5t3rw1tt

@ma5t3rw1tt:
You can do this from Mac or Windows.

Sorry if this comment is double listed, but my other one didn't go through it seems.

@POMOKEY - I think you should step back and look at the bigger picture - that all kinds of tasks can be kicked off via email, which is often more convenient than using ssh or some other tool. For mobile devices this is significant.

nad

@ma5t3rw1tt: Here's a guide for sleeping or shutting down in Windows and another for Mac.

@pomokey: There are other ways to do lots of things. The original lifehacker post pointed that out. But sometimes things like this are the simpler way to accomplish something, once you've done the setup. There isn't much that's simpler than sending an email from a mobile device to trigger multiple actions. It's not for everyone, but the more solutions the better.

nad

You can use GetByMail [www.getbymail.com]

MePerson

The best app I've found that does this task is called FolderShare [foldershare.com] . It actively syncs folders on as many computers as you want. I can delete or add a file on one of my laptops, and it's changed on the other one before I can even get over to it. Also, using the FolderShare website, you can download any file on your home computer from any other computer. And it has a pretty low memory footprint to boot. Pretty nifty.

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