Re: Irfanview question

"ASAAR" <caught@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:17:37 -0600, Ron Hunter wrote:
>
> >>> Also, what about the fact that most of the originals I want to
edit
> >>> have "Read only" in Attributes and only a few say "Archive". But
what
> >>> you are saying could be right. I really don't know.
> >>
> >> That's odd. They all should have the Archive bit set. Normally
> >> the Archive bit is only lost when a backup program saves a copy of
> >> the file and has been configured to remove the Archive bit of files
> >> that have been backed up. It's also odd that the file's Read Only
> >> attribute would also be set. That usually only happens when files
> >> are copied to a computer's hard drive from a CD or DVD.
> >>
> > I wouldn't be surprised if the Sony software sets that to prevent
> > accidental loss of pictures.
>
> Are you sure that you don't have that backwards? The best way to
> insure against accidental loss would be to make sure that the
> archive bit is always set, so that those files wouldn't be skipped
> over during certain types of backup. If Sony is doing anything odd
> with their software though, I wouldn't be very surprised.

I think something went screwy with my Irfanview files. I don't know
what. But when I reinstalled Irfanview, I didn't get the error message I
got before after I would edit a jpg, and most all the jpg files were
checked in the "Archive" box, so we can't blame Sony for that :)

Cathy


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