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Question regarding create/read/update file attributes in code

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Possible bug in Matlab's "fileattrib" function. Workaround?

I have found some strange behaviour in Matlab's fileattrib function on Windows. With certain file names it wrongly identifies the file as a hidden, system folder. To test it, download this file (the file is empty; it's only the file name that…
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How to change read attribute for a list of files?

I am powershell newbie. I used a sample script and made substitute from get-item to get-content in the first line. The modified script looks like below: $file = get-content "c:\temp\test.txt" if ($file.IsReadOnly -eq $true) { $file.IsReadOnly =…
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Does File Attribute contain millisecond? Objective-C

I would like to get milliseconds from creation time of file attribute When I get file attribute, I use NSDateFormatter to convert file creation time (NSDate) to NSString. [dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss:SS: A"]; ss -->…
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File.SetAttributes() not working on USB key as expected

FileAttributes attrs = File.GetAttributes( path); File.SetAttributes( path, FileAttributes.Hidden ); attrs = File.GetAttributes( path); This code snippet works on my NTFS file system (C:\Temp...\whatever_file). But when I try to perform this same…
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Get attributes of all files under a directory while accessing the directory only

I'm trying to write a function in C# that gets a directory path as parameter and returns a dictionary where the keys are the files directly under that directory and the values are their last modification time. This is easy to do with…
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Is there any way to set custom (aka user defined) file attributes on a file in Android?

I need to set user defined attributes for 2 reasons, 1- to mark encrypted files, 2- implementing a tag system like MacOS' Finder has. Here's what I've tried: Files.setAttribute( …
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Working with File Attributes in C# .Net 2.0

So how can i recursively search a Folder and un-hide ALL files and sub folders in a directory? Like have it check each file and each folder... if they're hidden.. un-hide them. Iv been messing around with it all morning with no luck... i got all…
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Read file attibutes for all files in the tree using as few IO operation as possible

I have a lot of small files on a NFS drive (Amazon EFS in my case). Files are provided over HTTP protocol, very similar to a classical Web-Server it does. As I need to validate the last modification of the file, it takes at least a single I/O per…
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How to get extended file-attributes in Windows in Python/Go/C/Batch?

I have searched a lot and have got some findings on how to get extended FA, but they are in C# using the language's own built-in APIs. I am trying to find the author name for a file in Windows, but my requirement is in Go/Python/C/Batch (order of…
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Sort files in directory using extended file attributes

I have a number of files in a directory, and I add extended file attributes to them setfattr -n user.processorder -v 2 myfile.txt I was wondering, is it possible to iterate over the files in the directory with a FOR loop but sorting them according…
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Swift3.0 fileAttributes throws "no such file" error on existing file

I am quite new to Swift and I am trying to implement a file creation date check. The idea is to check if the file was created longer than 7 days ago. For some reason the code always returns "no such file" error. To check what is wrong i used the…
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Read custom attributes of a file or folder in python

I set an attribute for a file/folder using Java's UserDefinedFileAttributeView. Please find the code snippet as below: UserDefinedFileAttributeView userView = Files.getFileAttributeView(file,…
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Windows Batch, for loop and file attributes while calling another batch

I recently started converting all my video files to MP4 for streaming purposes, and was using batch so far without issues. Now I have 6000+ videos to convert and needed some sort of queue system I could manipulate. This is my current code to convert…
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How Do I Programmatically Set a File Tag

When using Windows Explorer to view files, I'm given the option to set a "tag", "category", or other attributes. For a JPEG a different set of attributes (including "tag") are options. I'd like to be able to set these programmatically. How do I…
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FileInfo.IsReadOnly versus FileAttributes.ReadOnly

Is there any difference between these two ways of checking whether a file is read-only? Dim fi As New FileInfo("myfile.txt") ' getting it from FileInfo Dim ro As Boolean = fi.IsReadOnly ' getting it from the attributes Dim ro As Boolean =…
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