{"id":464,"date":"2009-02-20T10:46:58","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T10:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/news\/archive\/2009\/02\/20\/why-do-my-file-properties-sometimes-show-an-archive-check-box-and-sometimes-an-advanced-button.aspx"},"modified":"2009-02-20T10:46:58","modified_gmt":"2009-02-20T10:46:58","slug":"why-do-my-file-properties-sometimes-show-an-archive-check-box-and-sometimes-an-advanced-button","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/?p=464","title":{"rendered":"Why do my file properties sometimes show an Archive check box and sometimes an Advanced button?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you view the properties of a file and go to the General page, there are some check boxes at the bottom for file attributes. There&#8217;s one for <i>Read-only<\/i> and one for <i>Hidden<\/i>, and then it gets weird. Sometimes you get <i>Archive<\/i> and sometimes you get an <i>Advanced<\/i> button. What controls which one you get? <\/p>\n<p>It depends on whether there is anything interesting in the Advanced dialog. <\/p>\n<p>If the volume supports either compression or encryption (or both), then you will get an <i>Advanced<\/i> dialog with check boxes for <i>Archive<\/i>, <i>Compress<\/i> and <i>Encrypt<\/i>. On the other hand, if the volume supports neither compression nor encryption, then you will just get an <i>Archive<\/i> check box, since it looks kind of silly having an <i>Advanced<\/i> button that shows you a dialog box with just one check box on it. (Note that these features can also be disabled by group policy, so it&#8217;s not purely a file system decision.) <\/p>\n<p>In Windows, the most commonly encountered file system that does not support compression or encryption is probably FAT, and the most commonly encountered one that does is almost certainly NTFS, so in a rough sense, you can say that FAT gives you an <i>Archive<\/i> check box and NTFS gives you an <i>Advanced<\/i> button. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you view the properties of a file and go to the General page, there are some check boxes at the bottom for file attributes. There&#8217;s one for Read-only and one for Hidden, and then it gets weird. Sometimes you get Archive and sometimes you get an Advanced button. What controls which one you get? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[338],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}