Code for Concinnity

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I wrote another tool to do just this a while ago, but that one stopped working since I migrated to Windows 7 x64. Microsoft said the SHFileOpearation interface (which the old tool used) had been replaced by the IFileOperation interface. So I figured I would dig up my rusty C# again to update it.

Damn, I can’t believe it took a couple of hours, but the result worked amazingly. This one also supports wildcards:

I’ve gone the extra mile and set up a proper repository this time around on GitHub. Probably some Windows gurus will mock me left and right with some obscure one-liners or something, lol.

It has always looked not-so-cool to have to type “Sharing” at the start menu or worse yet, navigate through the Control Panel just to start it. Today I finally dug out how to do it from TechNet:

Looks like Microsoft decided to go down the verbose path. Maybe I’ll just stick with the old ways :p