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galcott
I am the developer of a commercial software application. One function
in this application writes some information to a text (.txt) file
which is placed in the same directory as the program (normally
underneath the Program Files directory). On Vista, it turns out that
this file is invisible to many programs, including Windows Explorer
and Notepad (although it is visible in the File Open dialog box in a
couple of other text editors that I tried). I do see it if I run a DIR
command at the command prompt. I then ran the ATTRIB command and saw
an attribute of "I" for this file, which I have never seen before. I
haven't been able to find any information on the meaning of this
attribute, and ATTRIB doesn't even support changing it, but my guess
is that it has something to do with the file's lack of visibility.
This problem does not occur on XP. I would like to find out what this
attribute means, why the file has it, and whether it is actually the
reason for the file not being seen.
Glenn
in this application writes some information to a text (.txt) file
which is placed in the same directory as the program (normally
underneath the Program Files directory). On Vista, it turns out that
this file is invisible to many programs, including Windows Explorer
and Notepad (although it is visible in the File Open dialog box in a
couple of other text editors that I tried). I do see it if I run a DIR
command at the command prompt. I then ran the ATTRIB command and saw
an attribute of "I" for this file, which I have never seen before. I
haven't been able to find any information on the meaning of this
attribute, and ATTRIB doesn't even support changing it, but my guess
is that it has something to do with the file's lack of visibility.
This problem does not occur on XP. I would like to find out what this
attribute means, why the file has it, and whether it is actually the
reason for the file not being seen.
Glenn