What is attrib?
The attrib command is a Windows command prompt command. The main purpose of this command is to remove and set file attributes (hidden, read-only, system and archive). The attributes provide security to software programs. It displays, sets or removes the read-only, hidden and archive file attributes assigned for a file or directory.
There are four attributes in Windows files
- Hidden
It makes files or folders invisible to the user to provide for safety of the files or folders.
- Read-only
It provides the read-only attribute to the file, in other words no one can delete or make changes to that specific file that has the read-only attribute.
- Archived
Provide a backup of file. Hence help in recovering of files.
- System
Mark the file as an important system file, hence change the priority of the file.
Step 1
Open the command prompt.
To open the command shell 1, press Window+r and type "cmd" then press Enter or select from the startup menu.
Step 2
Now go to the drive where your folder is stored in the drive. Let's use my new folder (A) stored in the E: drive then I type:
E:
Then press Enter as in the following:
Step 3
Now to hide the folder we need to type in the following command:
E:(drive_name where your folder exist) attrib folder_name +s +h +r
As in the following.
Now you see the advantage of this command. Open your drive and check that your destination folder will not be there since it is now hidden.
Hiding using this command will provide you the extra advantage that they aren't visible when you show your hidden folder through "Organize" -> "Folder and search" -> "view" -> "show hidden files and folders".
Step 4
Now type in the following command to unhide the folder:
E:(drive_name where your folder exist) attrib folder_name -s -h -r
As in the following:
Note: if you want to hide your destination folder completely then you need to delete your recent visit list from your system.
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