Re: What does the Archive setting in Properties mean?

JJ <[email protected]>
Newsgroups alt.comp.os.windows-xp
Organization To protect and to server
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Thu, 28 Nov 2024 20:39:57 +0100, R.Wieser wrote:
> 
> Try it out: clear the flag and see that it stays cleared, until you do 
> something with it.

PS) Do that in DOS. Not Windows NT+. Windows NT couldn't care less about
that attribute. IIRC, by Windows, it's only used by the built in Backup
application. Dunno how *nix based OSes treat that attribute.

But that attribute is not DOS' file attribute. It's FAT's file attribute.
It's just that, modern OSes don't use it anymore. It's more like an extra
file attribute usable as a marker for whatever context it was for.
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