autoreg-skills-max: initial public release (restored, redacted, hardened)

skills/chatgpt-autoreg/references/windows-file-consolidation.md

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+# File Consolidation — Windows Quirks
+
+## Copy large projects (skip .venv, node_modules)
+
+Python shutil approach — handles Windows paths correctly:
+
+```python
+import shutil, os
+
+src = r"C:\Users\User\Desktop\_PROJECTS\oai-register\aBaiAutoplus"
+dst = r"C:\Users\User\Desktop\GPT-AUTOREG-FULL\aBaiAutoplus"
+
+SKIP_ROOTS = {'.venv', '__pycache__', 'node_modules', '.git', 'frontend', 'electron'}
+
+os.makedirs(dst, exist_ok=True)
+
+for item in os.listdir(src):
+    if item in SKIP_ROOTS:
+        continue
+    s = os.path.join(src, item)
+    d = os.path.join(dst, item)
+    if os.path.isfile(s):
+        shutil.copy2(s, d)
+    elif os.path.isdir(s):
+        def local_ignore(p, names):
+            return {n for n in names if n in ('__pycache__', 'node_modules', '.venv') or n.endswith('.pyc')}
+        shutil.copytree(s, d, ignore=local_ignore)
+```
+
+## Remove locked node_modules (Windows)
+
+When `rm -rf` fails with "Device or resource busy":
+
+```bash
+# Git Bash rm doesn't work on locked files — use cmd
+cmd //c "rmdir /s /q C:\Users\User\Desktop\GPT-AUTOREG-FULL\aBaiAutoplus\frontend"
+```
+
+The double-slash `//c` is required in MSYS/Git Bash to pass `/c` to cmd.exe.
+
+## Archive creation (Windows)
+
+Only `tar` + `gzip` available via Git Bash. `zip` and `7z` are NOT installed.
+
+```bash
+cd "/c/Users/User/Desktop" && tar czf "GPT-AUTOREG-FULL.tar.gz" "GPT-AUTOREG-FULL/"
+```
+
+Verify: `tar tzf archive.tar.gz | wc -l` (count files), `stat -c%s archive.tar.gz` (size).
+
+## Exclude patterns for tar
+
+`tar` does not support `--exclude` reliably in Git Bash. Instead:
+- Pre-clean the source directory (remove .venv, node_modules, __pycache__)
+- Then tar the clean directory
+- Or use `--exclude='.venv' --exclude='__pycache__'` but test first