Hi! I posted this in a general Windows forum last month and was told to post it here (I just googled the same question and found my original post...) Why is the hidden attribute disabled in exFAT on Windows 7 There are hidden files in this directory which I want unhid.E.g., Folder.jpg is hidden. I cannot unhide it! It's hidden attribute is set and disabled so I cannot unhide it! This is in an exFAT partition which I assume is the root of my problem. How do I unhide all files. in exFAT directories (recursively)? [background: the reason I sort-of care about this is that I wrote an application about 8 years ago to generate an SFV file and I've since added a warning about hidden files. Well, in NTFS partitions, the solution was trivial, click on the "Security" tab and reset permissions. But, the exFAT partition does not provide a "Security" tab, yet it still honors the basic attributes - perhaps I answered my question - just use the same procedure as with FAT, do a command line recursive thing, possibly with Cygwin chmod (I'm a Unix geek)] Thanks, Art

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exFAT does not have permissions, it is similar to legacy FAT (FAT 12/16/32). exFAT does support A (Archive) H (Hidden) S (System) and R (Read Only), and you can use the "attrib" command for example, for the F drive, to remove all hidden attributes attrib -h f:\*.* /s Will remove (-h) all hidden files on the f drive, the /s is subdirectory recurrsive. If special folders, such as desktop.ini, folder.jpg, thumbs.db are encountered and not exposed, then windows 7 is doing something special because using windows XP with exFAT runs OK. and exFAT is not just flor flash memory only, although that has been a large use lately, but any external disk or hard drive that is > 32gb in size that you don't want NTFS for can use exFAT. It is being driven for SDXC camer cards because of the speed due to file system organization enhancements. source: rshullic.wordpress.com