Keep your sensitive files private with this step-by-step guide to creating hidden, invisible folders on both Windows and ...

Sometimes you might receive an error while trying to change and save the contents of a Read-only text file and you never realize it until the text editor itself ...

If you want to enable case-sensitive attributes for folders in Windows 11 or Windows 10, you can follow this step-by-step guide. Here is a way, involving Command Prompt or Terminal to enable or ...

A file access classification that determines how a file can be viewed or whether it can be edited. File attributes are maintained in the file system's directories, and typical attributes are Read-Only ...

Making a file read-only in Windows means you or a colleague are less likely to delete or change it accidentally. This can be helpful if you don't want any unintended changes to client contracts or ...

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Apologies if this is a common question: How do you convert MP3 files where the band and album are filesystem folder attributes (NTFS)? Folder/ Band Album Song1.MP3 Band1 Album1 Song2.MP3 Band2 Album2 ...

Nested conditionals, new actions, and other tweaks make a great utility even better. The Mac OS may have evolved dramatically over the years, but one thing hasn’t changed much: the process of managing ...

The File Explorer is one of the central tools in Windows. This is because the operating system is file-orientated, so the folder in which a file is stored, its name, and extension play a major role.

So I thought, hmmm, I think I want to encrypt the folder with tax returns and the like on my X drive. Folder, attributes, advanced, encrypt, viola, done! So then I wanted to copy them to my notebook ...

A lot of information is available about individual files on a Unix system. For example, the ls -l command will display the permissions matrix and ls -i will display a file’s inode. But, if we want to ...