hello dear friends

i need a simple batch command that makes the attributes of the folders inside a folder as system but i cant

do it since the folder dont have an extension. it must be something like "attrib +s *.folder" i know its

funny but this is all i can suggest

can you help me please ?

The 'attrib' cmd command supports defining a folder-name as target, but then wildcards isn't supported.

Also, there's switches for enabling recursiveness(/s) and for enabling the processing of folders additionally(/d).

Well, i've created such a batch as below a long time ago and i've been using this since then. (I believe i've edited some else package to be like this. Which? I don't recall)

I've removed some entries in order to make it a demo. I use this to remove read only attribute from folders i want. You can basically change the -R key to +S and edit the necessarry sections as you wish.

cWnd /HIDE @

cls

@echo off

goto top

Attrib1.bat

Program Files'da bulunan dosyalardaki "Salt Okunur" özelliğini kaldırır.

Nomadturk

:top

set name=top

if not %1()==() goto partial

attrib -R "%systemdrive%\program files\AIMP2\*.*" /S /D

goto top12

:top12

set name=top12

if not %1()==() goto partial

attrib -R "%systemdrive%\program files\Winrar\*.*" /S /D

goto top14

:top14

set name=top14

if not %1()==() goto partial

attrib -R "%systemdrive%\install\*.*" /S /D

goto end

:partial

set name=partial

attrib -R %1 /S /D

if %2()==() goto end

switch

:end

set name=end

exit

This one, is recursive.

you can use the /d switch

attrib /d /s +s c:\foldername\*.*

this will make all folders and files under c:\foldername +s

you can follow up with a attrib -s c:\foldername\*.* /s

this will remove s on only the files inside it

dunno if this was helpful at all since you probably dont want to mess with the files

Well, mine is recursive. That's why it's many more lines. But i remember /d not working for me.

(:

Darksimoon, if all you need is to change the attributes of some known files, than you'ld better use just this code:

attrib +s X:\Path\filename1.ext

attrib +s X:\Path\filename2.ext

...

attrib +s X:\Path\filenameX.ext

If not, give the others a try.

Edited January 30, 200917 yr by nomadturk

hello friends ;

thank you very much for your replies.

@ nomadturk i wanted to try your codes however it seemed to me a little complicated. yet thank you very much for your reply.

@KingAFW your solution worked for me and it's easy. thank you very much. Here are the lines i used;

attrib +s "D:\userxpsettings\Desktop\New Folder\*.* " /S /D

attrib -s "D:\userxpsettings\Desktop\New Folder\*.* " /S

1st line attributes all the FILES and FOLDERS +S and the 2nd line removes S attribute from FILES and the result is only the folders are +S attributed.

Glad to be of help

Gonna be a problem if you have system files in there though Dunno how to get around that.