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I have a hidden file on my USB removable storage (FAT file system). I'm using Windows 7. If I go to Properties window of this file and then to the Details tab, I will see that the attributes of the file are HX . When I run cmd and use attrib , I was told that file has attribute H. Nothing about X. I've tried help attrib , but still nothing about attribute X. I know that: H = Hidden S = System A = Archival R = Readonly However, I have no idea what X stands for. I've also found what the N and E attributes are for. Wikipedia has no mention of what the X attribute is. Google found two topics mentioning attribute X: undeletable file in delphi file attribute of x . "better attrib" None of these helped. I'd like to be able to read/write this flag in C#, but so far I read the documentation for the FileAttributes enumeration and experimented with setting some of listed attributes (using File.GetAttributes & File.SetAttributes methods) on the file. None of these experiments resulted in attribute X showing up in Properties -> Details. So, I have no idea how to approach it, especially since I still d

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