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Now all I have to do is get a external USB human brain to remember all this.
Keith,
lol as predicted & those sparks are nothing (spent many years on Usenet in the 80's ;O)
Good luck with whatever program one chooses to use. The free Commander would have very easily found the files in this case, but of course Filelocator Pro is far more advanced, the devs there have done a great job (and take a look at their client list).
Am hoping you will enjoy your choice (Agent Ransack here for home, and Filelocator Pro for work, 100% reliable, 0% problems). As it's got many supporters\users among forum members, it was reading some of the recommendations here that 1st made me aware of it's existence some years ago, so many thanks to the forum for providing valuable info.
One could easily make money just GUI-ing those pesky "user-friendly" parameters into a little tool. I'd pay for such a tool instead of using this... Pascaline-style method or even instead of any bloaty Commander.
But then again, this would be an appropriate occasion for Mark Russinovich (to whom I'm a fan) to step in and make a tool like only he knows to make.
Oh, I almost forgot: with 4 attributes you'd have to use 8 combinations
Although not GUIs, Windows does come with tools fit for the task of listing files with certain file attributes. Those tools are the Command Prompt, and PowerShell.
As Ztruker describes in post 2, the below Command Prompt command will list all files and folders with the Read-only attribute set,
Add the '/s' switch to recurse the search into subdirectories. For a PowerShell line that does similar,Code:dir /a:r * /b
Add the '-Recurse' switch to find Read-only items in subdirectories.Code:Get-ChildItem | ?{$_.Attributes -bAnd 1} | select -Expand FullName
Yep, that means you'd have to type "attributes:X" 8 times into the Explorer search to find Read-only items—and that's if there were 4 attributes—imagine how many times you'd have to type "attributes:X" to consider all 14 of Windows 7's file attributes... there'd be (1/2)*2^14 = 8192 combinations!
And I believe Windows 8 adds 2 new file attributes for a total of 16 unique attributes (in which there are a whopping 32768 combinations that contain Read-only). To list all file attributes on your computer, run the below PowerShell line,
For their values as well, enter the below line,Code:[enum]::GetValues([IO.FileAttributes])
The output of the above on my Windows 8.1 Pro PC reads,Code:[enum]::GetValues([IO.FileAttributes]) | select @{l='Name';e={$_}}, Value__ | ft @{l='Attribute';e={$_.Name};a='l'}, @{l='Value';e={$_.Value__};a='r'} -a
Code:Attribute Value --------- ----- ReadOnly 1 Hidden 2 System 4 Directory 16 Archive 32 Device 64 Normal 128 Temporary 256 SparseFile 512 ReparsePoint 1024 Compressed 2048 Offline 4096 NotContentIndexed 8192 Encrypted 16384 IntegrityStream 32768 NoScrubData 131072