[Virtualacorn-list] File present in VA but absent in Windows

[David J. Ruck]

Jeremy Nicoll - virtualacorn wrote:
> Brian Jordan <brian.jordan9 at btinternet.com> wrote:
> 
>> [2] It was originally a .jpg file retyped to .txt which I had been
>> experimenting with the better to understand EXIF tags. Maybe I somehow
>> scrambled a byte sequence in there which meant something to Windows
>> causing it to be classified as a system file?
> 
> Or maybe all files sent to the bin are given that attribute, to make them
> less likely to be deleted by accident (though that didn't just happen to
> some test text files I allowd to go into my just-turned-on Bin).

No, this does not happen.

> I don't a file gets flagged as a system file unless it's explicitly given
> that attribute.  It's got nothing to do with content.   Eg on Windows lots
> of .dat files are given that attribute, but if you create a .txt file then
> rename it to .dat it doesn't automatically become a system file.

Certain filenames will be assumed to be system files by Windows, this is 
probably what happened.

Cheers
---David

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