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Green filenames in Windows XP
I have some important file names in green colour. I had tried to change the Encrypt option but of no use.
Properties > Advanced > Unchecked Encrypt contents to secure data and clicked OK
Then ...
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How to copy file from PC to Mac, while preserving xattrs on the target file?
I've a file M on my Mac (OS X ML 10.8.4) and file P on my PC (Win7). File P was originally a copy of file M but is now slightly updated. File M has some extended attributes.
How can I copy file P ...
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cmd > attrib - Unable to change attribute
I'm following this tutorial because I'm having problems with the Task Scheduler service:
http://technicallyeasy.net/2010/10/how-to-fix-keyset-does-not-exist-for-scheduled-tasks-in-windows/
Basically ...
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What is the difference between the read-only attribute and the access control list read-only flag on Windows?
I'm looking for a technical answer, not a general answer, pertaining to how Windows actually handles these properties. For example, there are some programs that recognize the read-only attribute and ...
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Windows attrib command changes file timestamp
I have some batch file running that does the following on a directory tree with several thousand files:
change file attributes, turn OFF readonly
do some stuff, add new files.
change file ...
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Windows 7 - Cannot remove read-only attribute
I am logged in on my admin account. When I was trying to edit a python project using PyCharm (an IDE), it told me that the folder was marked as read-only (square box).
I open the folder in explorer, ...
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Cannot delete attribute file in mac os X
Suddenly some *attributes files started to appeared in the trash folder of my mac os x (snow leopard).
The problem is I can't delete them.
// 1. See there is a file with an invalid name
MAC:libs ...
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Black-clock icon overlay?
While I was cleaning up some (very) old files, I decompressed a .zip file which contained some old files from 1989. I was surprised to find that some of the files are showing a black clock icon ...
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Automatically remove encryption when copying to removable device [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to remove Encrypted flag when copying a file from a HDD to a USB drive?
Windows OS (8 64-bit).
This question has already popped up in How to remove Encrypted flag ...
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What is the “N” folder attribute on windows?
As far as I have ever known, files could have any combination of four attributes: (R)ead-only, (A)rchive, (S)ystem and (H)idden.
I have researched and found out there is also the +I attribute ...
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How to hide desktop.ini files without hiding other hidden files/folders?
Is there anyway to hide desktop.ini files, but unhide them when I need them? They get in the way when I'm moving files and such but I do use them so deleting them isn't an option.
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Windows 7 x64 explorer and MS Office 2010 “recent authors” issue
How to remove recent authors entries that show up as soon as you start typing in windows explorer on .docx files?
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Some files in C:\ hidden even though hidden attribute is not set, how to identify them?
I found this on a Windows XP machine and as well as a Windows 7 machine. That is certain files in C drive (not anywhere else yet), are hidden, though their hidden attribute is false (or unchecked). ...
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Unable to set read-only property on temp folder
I'm trying to make the \documentsettings\user\temp folder as read only to prevent files from writing files into it ( I have reasons to do so). But I've tried all the basic methods of doing so, from ...
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What can cause a folder to change properites?
My computer is on a domain of a large network and is running Windows 7 Enterprise. An application couldn't run and latter I found it was because the read-only attribute was set to its root folder (and ...
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NTFS file attributes from deleted file applying to new one with the same name
I created two files at around the same time through Windows Explorer (on Windows Server 2008 R2).
a.xlsx (Created at 16:42)
b.xlsx (Created at 16:42)
I then duplicate a.xlsx using copy-paste, to ...
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How to make Windows 7 desktop read-only?
I have Windows 7 Professional on my home computer, 1 windows account, multiple users and... huge mess on desktop. I want to force other household members to save their temporary files and documents on ...
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Make a file non-deletable in USB
Somebody used my USB drive and upon returning it to me, I found a autorun.inf that is undeletable.
I tried changing it's file attribute which is only H (not even set as a system file) but it keeps on ...
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Will removing the System Attribute from ALL files break anything on Windows 7?
If I run the command:
C:\>attrib –s –h *.* /S /D
This will remove the hidden and system attributes from ALL files on the C drive (It had been infected by a virus that has marked files as system ...
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Are there attributes that 'spicy' files tend to have which 'clean' files don't? [closed]
This question got me thinking about another project I've got on my 'to do' list. It's a 'multimedia' (blarg) piece with dynamically-generated video projection. I've run an early version of it, but I'd ...
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Is there a Linux tool for changing DOS/Windows file attributes?
I often use a Linux LiveCD (or Puppy on a pen drive) to disinfect Windows machines that are infested with various malware. However, once the malware is gone, you still need to deal with the ...
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Viewing all file attributes in Windows 7 Explorer
Where is the File Attributes column in Windows 7? I desperately want to see all the extended attributes -- System, Append-only, Immutable, nodump, etc -- but just am not seeing any besides the usual ...
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Decrypt EFS files
Here's my situation.
Was using EFS on my Vista laptop - had a backup of my certificate.
HD crashed...managed to recover some of my files (Encrypted) - but they "lost" the "Encrypted" attribute in ...
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attrib -s-r C:\<folder path>/d/s Just wont work?
I'm trying to change a file within a game I have installed on my computer, but the read only attribute won't change. I've researched this and found a way using the Command Prompt where I can change ...
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Is there an archive tool (that runs on Windows) that I can set the “execute attribute” in an archive file or zip file?
I have a small set of files I develop on Windows but need to extract and run on Linux. One of those files is a script, StartApp.sh. I'm packaging the files as a zip archive, passing it to my admin, ...
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File Attribute of X
I have a file on my Windows 7 machine with the attributes of HX. I understand H means hidden, but what does X mean?
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Need software to convert RAR to ZIP (“store” mode - no compression) * Extract->re-archive changes date/time attributes
I have tried all of the following applications (download.cnet.com - the free ones), and none of them will convert an RAR archive to a ZIP, without compressing the files ("store" mode). 7-ZIP would be ...
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How to change password on RAR archive w/o modifying arch. files attributes (modified/created)?
How do I change the password of an .RAR archive, without changing the date/time attributes of the files in the archive? Unfortunately you can't directly change the password of the archive with ...
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Access file by its id and change file attributes
Just like every file also directories have file id.
You can see them by typing
ls -i
How do I view file content by its id?
How do I change directory attribute to file (remove D) and vice versa!
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System files not hidden Win XP
I recently copied my win xp install from one hard to another(via ubuntu live cd)
Everything went well, except that all the hidden system files(boot.ini, ntdlr, io.sys) are no longer hidden.
I tried ...
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Unset the system immutable bit in Mac OS X
In theory I believe you can unlock and remove the system immutable bit with:
chflags noschg /Path/To/File
But how can you do this when you've set the bit as root? I have a file that is locked, and ...
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Equivalent of chmod to change file permissions in Windows
Is there any Windows equivalent of Linux's chmod to change the permissions of a file?
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Windows Explorers file attribute column values
Anyone know of a good resource for all of the values and definition in the windows explorers file attribute column?
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Command to unlock “Locked” files on OS X
I copied a lot of read-only files from a Windows system to my Mac. When viewing the Info for each file using "Get Info", I can see they are Locked. I'm writing a bash script to copy over some files ...
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Changing the date of a image file
I'm going through the thankless task of scanning old photos and archiving the digital copies.
Is there a way to modify the date of scanned image files (typically .jpeg) to more closely match when ...
