Actually, the flag can be cleared (usually by a backup program, for incremental or differential backups). Now, I don't think (but could be wrong) that this flag is still used actively, even by backup programs (a database would probably be their best bet know, with a signature of the file).
In Wine, the flag is only "set" when a program wants to know the attributes of a file; elsewhere, the attribute is non existent. So I guess it can stay that way.
Insyde, does the Archive flag is one of the differences you saw? BTW, FAT32 or NTFS?
Bye, Vincent
The "Archive" flag isn't used today : - no program cares about it in Windows (95+) - on NT it's only there for compatibility because ntfs has other inforamtion on a file such as owner, groups and so on.
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