ASP in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition

Name

Attributes (File Object, Folder Object) — Obj . Attributes [ = intNewAttributes ]

Synopsis

An integer containing a combination of values representing various file system attributes. This property is read-only or read/write depending on the specific file attribute in question.

The following table lists the values that the Attributes property can contain. To determine whether a File or Folder object has a particular value, use the bitwise And operator to compare the Attributes property value and the specific constant in which you're interested. If the result is True, then that specific attribute is True. See the following examples.

Attributes Constant	Value	Description
Normal	0	No attributes are set.
ReadOnly	1	Read-only. This attribute is read/write.
Hidden	2	Hidden. This attribute is read/write.
System	4	System file. This attribute is valid only for File objects and is read/write.
Volume	8	The drive's volume label. This attribute is read-only.
Directory	16	Directory. This attribute is read-only.
Archive	32	Archived. This attribute is read/write.
Alias	64	A link or shortcut for another file. This attribute is valid only for File objects and is read-only.
Compressed	128	Compressed. This attribute is valid only for File objects and is read-only.

Parameters

intNewAttributes

An integer containing the sum of a file's or folder's attributes. For example, if you wanted to set the Archived and Hidden attributes to True, intNewAttributes would have a value ...