windows 3.0 file manager

[evildragon]

Oh god this is annoying me, and really reminds me of Vista's (Allow or disallow)

Is there any way to turn off the "Delete write-protected or hidden file" message that keeps appearing? I have all confirmations turned off, but it insists on asking me, and it's starting to tick me off. I use my ZIP disk on other computers, linux, Mac OS X, and they all put hidden files on the disk, and they don't see them, only my IBM does...

And deleting them, is a pain, when there's no "Yes to all" button.

[tezza]

I don't know the answer to your question but I DO remember Windows 3.0.

They are not fond memories! I used it when it first came out (1991?) and jezzz, was it buggy! How Microsoft got away with it I'll never know?? It should have been Windows 3.0 beta and given away! Eventually bug fixes were applied and a (relatively) stable version emerged in Windows 3.1

[paul.brett]

Would it be easier to write a short batch file to ATTRIB -S -R -H *.* and then del *.* < y_cr.dat

Obviously y_cr.dat would contain 3 bytes "y" and then 0x0d 0x0a

Paul.

[evildragon]

Would it be easier to write a short batch file to ATTRIB -S -R -H *.* and then del *.* < y_cr.dat

Obviously y_cr.dat would contain 3 bytes "y" and then 0x0d 0x0a

Paul.
Alot of my Macs files are different in names.

finder.dat
DS_Store.whatever
_.filename

it's a mess ,and DOS itself won't show them, but Windows will.

[barythrin]

Dos won't show them if they're flagged as hidden or system although I'm not sure how it will treat invalid not 8.3 filenames.

Either way, you could still do the attris /s -s -r -h *.* on the zip disk which will unhide, and unprotect any of these "special" files. From there you can likely clean them however you want.

The less exciting answer is most of those special directories are just created for trash/scrap and are likely 0 bytes. You could just ignore them and know they're there for the other OSs.

- John

[evildragon]

I'll try the batch to change them all to non system and non hidden.

I don't mind them being there, it's just when I try to delete a directory, it's annoying that Windows 3.0 acts like Vista, asking for each hidden or system file, if I am sure I want to delete, and there's no "Yes to all" button.

[barythrin]

I can't recall with Windows 3.0 but I think there is a registry hack or something that can force that off. You'll have to google around for it though and I've never tried since I'm normally not deleting a lot of protected files at once or more commonly I'd still do it through dos.

- John

[rmay635703]

yes dos can show hidden files

attrib command will show them and change their attributes so you can delete them

http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/h/hiddenfi.htm

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/74591

You can change the attributes of all the files in file monger also
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/68544

Good Luck

[chuckcmagee]

Also, as of DOS 5, you can use the "/a" option on the dir which will then show all files, including hidden and system. I use dir /s/a all the time from the root directory to search for files, like dir *.sys /s/a.