Find in files

[Matija Exel]

hello,

I have problems with INCOMPLETE results of "find in files"
as all the SYSTEM files (attribute S) are ignored by textpad!!
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I recently reinstalled my Windows 98, and, after some restoring from other
places, I got a number of files with S attribute, which I don't know how to get rid of.

This is VERY annoying!
Any help?

[Keith MacDonald]

Hello Matija,

TextPad deliberately ignores all files with the System and Hidden attributes, as that is the purpose of those attributes.

I cannot recall if Windows 98 Explorer lets you remove those attributes. Try right clicking one of the affected files, and choose Properties. If you can clear the appropriate check boxes, you can do it all at once, by selecting all the affected files, and choosing Properties. Otherwise, start a DOS prompt, and use the ATTRIB command on each affected file. e.g.

CD C:\Windows
ATTRIB -S *.TXT

Regards,

Keith MacDonald
Helios Software Solutions

[Christophe Wegmuller]

Hmmm, looks very dangerous.
I hope that a "Search through System and Hidden files as well" setting will be inplemented in a next release of TextPad.

Thanks