>I'm using:
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>RUN /N2 ATTRIB -R &FullPath
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>To turn off read-only attributes for a file before my application deletes it. I figured it would be easier to do this for all files I'm about to delete - but it seems to be pretty slow (I'm deleting a bunch of old files).
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>I have two questions:
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>1) I seem to remember an article recently about some new VFP6 commands. Among them was an easy way to change attributes. How can I easily change attributes of a file within VFP6?
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>2) Would it be faster to check the current attributes before changing them ro R/W, or would it be faster to set each file to R/W before deleting it?
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>TIA

Hi Michael,

Check the download section under Win32 and other APIs. Hank Fay has posted some code that will both retrieve and change file attributes.

hth,