http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ How-To Geek Forums Topic: folder hidden attribute greyed out en Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:52:12 +0000 http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/folder-hidden-attribute-greyed-out#post-48926 Sun, 21 Sep 2008 14:12:49 +0000 JJF 48926@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>This was very helpful, but when one have a lot of folders to change back this way, it takes a lot of time!</p> <p>Is there not a simple program available with which this can be done? </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/folder-hidden-attribute-greyed-out#post-24146 Tue, 13 May 2008 05:21:06 +0000 agacult 24146@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Thanks alot jd2066 it worked like a charm, I also found that to remove the hidden attribute from everything in the infected hdd/fdd is to go H:\&gt;attrib -H -S \*.* /S /D assuming H is my external hdd,thanks again. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/folder-hidden-attribute-greyed-out#post-22705 Sun, 04 May 2008 23:23:26 +0000 jd2066 22705@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Try the command: attrib -H -S "My Folder" /S /D<br /> That should work for the sub folders too. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/folder-hidden-attribute-greyed-out#post-22652 Sun, 04 May 2008 14:58:23 +0000 agacult 22652@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>The files in the subfolder are ok its the the subfolder that I can't get the hidden attribute working </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/folder-hidden-attribute-greyed-out#post-22650 Sun, 04 May 2008 14:25:50 +0000 Lighthouse 22650@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>maybe /d switch needed </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/folder-hidden-attribute-greyed-out#post-22647 Sun, 04 May 2008 14:14:36 +0000 jd2066 22647@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>So the files in that sub folder are still hidden? Or is it the folder itself that is still hidden? </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/folder-hidden-attribute-greyed-out#post-22646 Sun, 04 May 2008 14:08:43 +0000 agacult 22646@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>It's still giving me the "file not found - My Folder\Their Folder". I first got around this problem by following your first tip but I added [\*.*] before the , it looked something like this H:\&gt;attrib -H -S "My Folder\Their Folder"\*.* /S, [\*.*] to clear whatever I want to clear from the folder and it's subfolders &#38; everthing in the in it. But it's not working for the sub folder. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/folder-hidden-attribute-greyed-out#post-22634 Sun, 04 May 2008 12:57:41 +0000 jd2066 22634@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Oh, sorry about that. I forgot the command is different for switching drives then folders.<br /> Just type "H:" instead of "cd H:\" for the command. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/folder-hidden-attribute-greyed-out#post-22631 Sun, 04 May 2008 12:51:33 +0000 agacult 22631@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Yes I am in the H drive, it looks something like this H:\&gt;attrib -H -S "My Folder\Their Folder /S and when I press enter the cmd gives the above mentioned response. To get into my H drive I do the following from the cmd, C:\Users\agacult&gt;H:<br /> H:\&gt;</p> <p>when I include "cd" it goes<br /> C:\Users\agacult&gt;cd H:<br /> H:\<br /> C:\Users\agacult&gt;<br /> it gets back to C drive, I don't know why. I'm using vista business on my machine </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/folder-hidden-attribute-greyed-out#post-22610 Sun, 04 May 2008 11:13:12 +0000 jd2066 22610@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Did you do the "cd H:\" (Assuming the drive is H:\) first? </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/folder-hidden-attribute-greyed-out#post-22609 Sun, 04 May 2008 10:59:45 +0000 agacult 22609@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Hi there and thanks for all your tips, especially jd2066 but I seemed to have hit a brick wall as when I type: (attrib -H -S "My Folder\Their Folder" /S)the cmd prompt gives: (File not found - My folder\Their Folder.) The virus that has stared my problem is called W32.SillyFDC and I use Norton 360 Version 2 antivirus, which is always up to date. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/folder-hidden-attribute-greyed-out#post-22157 Thu, 01 May 2008 09:38:46 +0000 jd2066 22157@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Try doing: attrib -H -S "My Folder\Their Folder" /S </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/folder-hidden-attribute-greyed-out#post-22151 Thu, 01 May 2008 08:40:20 +0000 agacult 22151@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Following the tip from jd2066 I did the following(Asuming "My Folder" is the hidden folder &#38; "Their Folder" is the sub folder,which is also hidden with every file/folder in it!) H:\&gt;attrib -H -S "My Folder"\"Their Folder"\*.* /S &#38; I managed to retrieve "My Folder" and the files in the sub folder "Their Folder", however the sub folder's hidden attribute is still greyed out, is there a way I can fix the sub folder also? </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/folder-hidden-attribute-greyed-out#post-22094 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:54:39 +0000 eddn 22094@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>I had the same thing happened to me traced it down to Norton System works. Nortons helped me fix the know problem. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/folder-hidden-attribute-greyed-out#post-22005 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:23:22 +0000 agacult 22005@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Thanks alot for the tip jd2066. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/folder-hidden-attribute-greyed-out#post-21960 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:14:48 +0000 jd2066 21960@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Try this:<br /> 1. Click Start.<br /> 2. In the search box type command prompt and press enter.<br /> 3. Type the following commands and press enter after each (Note: Assumes your external drive is H:\ and the folder that is hidden is named "My Folder"):</p> <pre> cd H:\ attrib -H -S "My Folder" /D </pre> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/folder-hidden-attribute-greyed-out#post-21959 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:11:44 +0000 whs 21959@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Easiest is to reset to a recovery point from before the infection. If it really was a virus, these are probably not your only troubles. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/folder-hidden-attribute-greyed-out#post-21956 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:38:23 +0000 agacult 21956@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>HELP! My externel hard drive got infected with a virus and now all my files/folders have their hidden attributes greyed out. I have to select the "show hidden files and folders" just to see them, is there any way around this? </p>