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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => D-Link Storage => DNS-320 => Topic started by: liquidparadox on August 21, 2012, 04:32:03 AM

Title: Hidden attribute problem
Post by: liquidparadox on August 21, 2012, 04:32:03 AM

Bought this unit last week and all set up great with no problems except this one little issue I have in that when copying a folder over from win7, hidden files lose their hidden attribute -  >:(
e.g. files like desktop.ini, thumbs.db, folder.jpg from music and picture folders are no longer hidden...

Have search high and low on how to fix this any ideas please?

Thanks

Title: Re: Hidden attribute problem
Post by: JavaLawyer on August 21, 2012, 04:50:20 AM

The ShareCenter series uses the Linux filesystem, which does not share the same attributes as the Windows OS. As a result, Windows file attributes are lost after copying to the DNS-320.  You can preserve the file attributes by placing the files in an archive (e.g. zip file) before copying.

Title: Re: Hidden attribute problem
Post by: liquidparadox on August 21, 2012, 10:24:43 AM

That explains it then  :)

Thanks very much for a quick response