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Archive attribute?

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Dooling37

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Hey all -
I'm just looking for a relatively simple explanation of what the 'Archive' attribute does to a file (or directory/folder) in Windows. I'm using 2000Server, but I know that obviously this is used in other versions of Windows, and Netware, and probably something similar in Unix.

I believe that it has something to do with backup of files...maybe if archive is checked, the file is backed-up only if changed since the last time? That's the purpose that I thought of, and I know it would be useful for my personal files, but I'm not sure if it's right. Any other sites you could direct me to on the subject would also be great.
I looked around the MS site, but everything was way too detailed (i.e. - how to use archiving in programming), and I didn't find anything on this topic in a search here.

Thanks alot for your help!
 
That's right....that's essentially what the Archive Attribute does.

The backup program can be set to backup files with the A attribute, and then removes the A attribute after the backup has taken place. Files changed, added or updated subsequent to the backup is automatically marked A by the OS.

For MS Operating systems, this has applied to MS-DOS, Windows 3.x, 9x/ME, NT/2K.
 
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