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to: Geo.
from: Chris Robinson
date: 2003-01-23 09:13:58
subject: Re: XP automatically controlling file attributes?

From: Chris Robinson 

ah right - interesting - can this be changed so that XP doesn't see this as
a system file?

"Geo." wrote:

> "Chris Robinson" 
wrote in message
> news:3E2E7B9D.1EAABF1E{at}NOSPAMtotalise.co.uk...
>
> > encryption program), XP reset all the attributes - even though the file
> > had been renamed and the attributes removed.
>
> XP (and 2K) identify a file by it's fileID not by it's name, so XP still saw
> it as the swapfile and there is probably some security service running that
> prevents access to the swap file.
>
> Geo.

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