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Hello. In CMD prompt, how can I “see” the found.001 folder to be able to delete it ? I am on c:, I do a DIR /w/p but no found.x shows up.
All this, obviously, in Windows 10 14393.5. Thanks. Jean.

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attrib -h -s found.001

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Hello Browni and thanks. I just knew that somebody would come up with the way to help me. I worked fine. One funny here, they became visible but deleting them in DOS did not delete them, in windows, they left good.

For Batcher, they were visible but greyed out. Have a look and thou ought to be surprised.

DOS is still underlying in W-10, I use a lot of DOS commands, but that one escaped me, the attrib !

Jean.

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DOS is still underlying in W-10, I use a lot of DOS commands, but that one escaped me, the attrib!

There are some who would say that Windows 10 is just a better way of running the Command Prompt window!

BATcher

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Hello Browni and thanks. I just knew that somebody would come up with the way to help me. I worked fine. One funny here, they became visible but deleting them in DOS did not delete them, in windows, they left good.

For Batcher, they were visible but greyed out. Have a look and thou ought to be surprised.

DOS is still underlying in W-10, I use a lot of DOS commands, but that one escaped me, the attrib !

Jean.

DOS is NOT underlying in Windows 10. The Command Prompt window is just a shell to enable DOS-like commands.

--Joe

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JoeP, hello.
Thanks for the well worded clarification. That shell is so nice that it is hard for the unknowing user, to tell the wheat from the chaff.
Have a great evening. Jean.

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Browni, hello.

attrib -h -s found.001 This has worked wonders, thanks. Can you now decipher this for me, the switch -h and – s ! Having fun. Jean.

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attrib -h -s found.001 This has worked wonders, thanks. Can you now decipher this for me, the switch -h and – s !

You can decipher this for yourself from the Help information obtained by typing
attrib /?

BATcher

Plethora means a lot to me.

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BAT, good 14393.10 to you.
Thanks, it shows that I really do not know DOS. A great day to you. Jean.

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If you can’t ‘see’ FOUND.001, how do you know it exists?

Compare sound of trees falling in uninhabited forests, one hand clapping, etc…

BATcher

Plethora means a lot to me.

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Also good to know if a person has a DOS book/handbook is that not all of the DOS commands and switches for them work in the Command Prompt in WinXP and later.

Before you wonder "Am I doing things right," ask "Am I doing the right things?"

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http://gobruen.com/progs/dos_batch/dos_batch.html
There are other web sites which give DOS information, the above is just one of many.

"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted

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When I studied it, THIS came in a two-volume set. So here it is is for free (it seems – I haven’t downloaded it myself, but that was the textbook).

Interesting link from that, for old-timers, to home computers.

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Dogberry: Thanks for posting those links; now I really feel old. My first computer was a Commodore VIC-20. I thought I died and went to heaven.

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OK dogberry, we know what’s going to happen now. Let me start. When I started computing I used scratches on a cave wall. None of those new-fangled beads on wires for me.:flee:

Eliminate spare time: start programming PowerShell

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OK dogberry, we know what’s going to happen now. Let me start. When I started computing I used scratches on a cave wall. None of those new-fangled beads on wires for me.:flee:

How true! How true!
Scratching was the easy part, but erasing was a real chore.
We kept having to move because our cave would eventually be larger than we needed!

Image or Clone often! Backup, backup, backup, backup......
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I’m still learning to use an abacus :D:

This new fangled technology ! :D:

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Man has made progress, man moved from grunt and throw spear to grunt and click mouse.

"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted

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*sigh*
*continues typing*

“dos=high,umb….”

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*sigh*
*continues typing*

“dos=high,umb….”

Ugh! Trying to eke out a few more kilobytes so an application would run. I remember it well.

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I found http://ss64.com/nt/ to be an excellent reference on the NT dos commands.If you go top level http://ss64.com it also has command line references for bash, PowerShell, OSX and others.

Dick

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The following will delete files which have any attribute combination, including Read Only, System, and Hidden:

Code:

del /a /f [I]filename(s)-&-or-wildcard(s)[/I]

This works both in batchfiles and on the DOS command line.

This particular use of the /a switch appears to be an officially undocumented feature.

You can combine these switches with other del command switches if needed.

Caveats for beginners:

[*]Be very careful using wildcards with this, as if you make a mistake you might do major damage to your computer. The command example given will not ask for confirmation before deleting files.
[*]This deletes files forever, not to the Recycle Bin.
[*]If you haven’t made a known good recent partition backup, don’t delete anything you won’t be able to get back.

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