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Using the minus signs after attrib in the above example clears the System, Hidden, and Read-only attributes from the file. This is document aift in the Knowledge Base. Last modified on Skip to: content search login. Knowledge Base Toggle local menu Menus About the team. Knowledge Base Search. Improve this answer. Scott Lundberg 2, 2 2 gold badges 14 14 silver badges 21 21 bronze badges. Kevin Kuphal Kevin Kuphal 9, 1 1 gold badge 33 33 silver badges 41 41 bronze badges.

Not sure how it went there. Nor how to act on it Noticed that because it has a specific icon overlay. Where did you find this list? Voting down. The attrib command on my win10 system disagrees with this. The answer should point to a reference and or explain what the attributes mean and how they are intended to be used.

Another attribute is E for Encrypted. Knox Knox 2, 2 2 gold badges 26 26 silver badges 33 33 bronze badges. R Read-only file attribute. A Archive file attribute. S System file attribute. H Hidden file attribute. I Not content indexed file attribute. Dave Burton Dave Burton 1 1 silver badge 8 8 bronze badges.

Here's the link to the answer that included D: Windows Explorers file attribute column values. Community Bot 1. Open a cmd. Ankit Moradiya Ankit Moradiya 11 1 1 bronze badge.

Dennis Williamson Dennis Williamson 59k 14 14 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. I can tell you that the current version of BackupExec can use either the archive bit or the last modified timestamp for determining whether or not to back up a file.

Duane Duane. You have this exactly backwards. The OS sets the archive bit when a file is created or modified. Backup software clears the archive bit when the file is backed up. I haven't found this on the internet yet, but there is also a "P" attribute, corresponding to a sparse file.

This flag is listed in Windows 7, but not in Windows XP. Not sure about Vista. Note that there is no way to turn off the flag, though! Sparse files are similar to compressed files, but a bit more specific. With sparse files, long ranges of null value 0 bytes are simply not stored on disk.

When a program tries to access that part of the file, the file system will see that it is not on the disk and return a range of null bytes instead. See this MSDN page for more info on sparse files.

The "I" flag stands for "Indexed". Indexing Service or Windows Search won't include those files in their indexing operation when set. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.

Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Windows Explorer's file attribute column values [closed] Ask Question. Asked 12 years, 3 months ago. Active 3 years, 11 months ago. Viewed 64k times. Improve this question.

Peter Mortensen Michael Kniskern Michael Kniskern 2 2 gold badges 6 6 silver badges 19 19 bronze badges. Something like this answer over on Server Fault?