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Old December 25th 15, 05:46 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
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Had some trouble copying MP3s from Windows to my tablet, for email
notification sounds. So I used Microsoft's file attribute remover
utility, and voilą, no more problem.

I wonder why Microsoft includes that utility in Windows.
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Old December 25th 15, 08:59 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
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Default Microsoft's file attribute remover utility

John Doe wrote:
Had some trouble copying MP3s from Windows to my tablet, for email
notification sounds. So I used Microsoft's file attribute remover
utility, and voilą, no more problem.

I wonder why Microsoft includes that utility in Windows.


And you didn't name this utility because... ?

*******

Attributes are things like "Hidden" and "System", and
those can be handled with Attrib.

Permissions might be handled by Takeown, icacls, xcacls,
and so on.

Utilities you find on the Sysinternals page, originated
from when Sysinternals was an independent company. Microsoft
bought them, and the utilities are now served from a
technet page. The objective of the Sysinternals staff,
was to make useful utilities to cover "holes" not
covered by things Microsoft offered.

Microsoft has made some utilities of its own,
but generally the delivery mechanism is quite
irregular, and involves jumping through hoops.
Like, try and find a copy of devcon64 or
a copy of UVCView today...

Paul
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Old December 25th 15, 01:39 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
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Default Microsoft's file attribute remover utility

Paul wrote on 12/25/2015 2:59 AM:
And you didn't name this utility because... ?

+1
Love to know if there were a simple way to do this too.
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Old December 25th 15, 09:35 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
John Doe[_8_]
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Paul wrote:

John Doe wrote:


Had some trouble copying MP3s from Windows to my tablet, for email
notification sounds. So I used Microsoft's file attribute remover
utility, and voilą, no more problem.

I wonder why Microsoft includes that utility in Windows.


And you didn't name this utility because... ?


The process is accessed via file properties.

Properties Details Remove Properties and Personal Information
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Old December 26th 15, 10:03 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Paul
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Default Microsoft's file attribute remover utility

John Doe wrote:
Paul wrote:

John Doe wrote:


Had some trouble copying MP3s from Windows to my tablet, for email
notification sounds. So I used Microsoft's file attribute remover
utility, and voilą, no more problem.

I wonder why Microsoft includes that utility in Windows.

And you didn't name this utility because... ?


The process is accessed via file properties.

Properties Details Remove Properties and Personal Information


What that removes is things like EXIF metadata, rather
than attributes or permissions.

That would be handy for multimedia material which
have come from a fancy digital camera or photos
shot with a smartphone. Where there is plenty of
stuff they could throw into the metadata section
(like your GPS coordinates when the picture
was taken).

Paul
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Old December 26th 15, 10:29 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
John Doe[_8_]
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Default Microsoft's file attribute remover utility

Paul wrote:

John Doe wrote:
Paul wrote:
John Doe wrote:


Had some trouble copying MP3s from Windows to my tablet, for email
notification sounds. So I used Microsoft's file attribute remover
utility, and voilą, no more problem.

I wonder why Microsoft includes that utility in Windows.


And you didn't name this utility because... ?


The process is accessed via file properties.

Properties Details Remove Properties and Personal Information


What that removes is things like EXIF metadata, rather than attributes
or permissions.

That would be handy for multimedia material which have come from a
fancy digital camera or photos shot with a smartphone. Where there is
plenty of stuff they could throw into the metadata section (like your
GPS coordinates when the picture was taken).


Perhaps I should've used "properties" instead of "attributes" but my
post made clear what I was talking about.

And it did what I said. So obviously it's not just removing GPS
coordinates.
 




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