How to clear archive bit without doing a backup

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Roger

I have many folders containing thousands of images that I have copied to
several DVDs. Now I want to clear the archive bit on all the files so
that I can start making incremental backups of just the files that change.

Anyone know of a way to do this or a freeby utility?

Roger
 
David said:
Right click - Properties - Advanced
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That sets the properties of an individual file, I have thousands of
files. I need a way to turn off the archive bit all of them at once.

Roger
 
I have many folders containing thousands of images that I have copied to
several DVDs. Now I want to clear the archive bit on all the files so
that I can start making incremental backups of just the files that change.

Anyone know of a way to do this or a freeby utility?
Click to expand...


Open a command prompt and do CD to get into the directory of
interest, then

atrrib -a * /s
 
Stan said:
in microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize:




Open a command prompt and do CD to get into the directory of
interest, then

atrrib -a * /s
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Thanks! That works for me.

Roger
 
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