Use of "archive" file attribute in copy dialog

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nemadeka
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Use of "archive" file attribute in copy dialog

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I do regular incremental backups of my data using WinRar which selects only the files with the "archive" attribute set. Very useful. I set Winrar to create a new archive backuping changes during the day, so my changes are not overwritten. It helped me a few times.

Sometimes I use TC when I simply need to backup a folder and overwrite the changed files rather than create their versions. Since my folders often contain thousands of small files scattered across a folder tree, TC spends most of the time skipping the files. These files, thanks to a previous pass by Winrar, do not have the "arcive" attibute set, so TC can see that these have been backuped.

So, I would be happy to have 2 options in the copy dialog:
[ ] - copy only "archive" files
[ ] - remove the "archive" attribute after copy

I tried a couple of workarounds using the Search feature, they are unusable for this purpose.

What do you think?
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You can use the second line in the copy dialog to filter by attribute, but you cannot reset the attribute this way.
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Re: Use of "archive" file attribute in copy dialog

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I am also surprised that this useful feature (clearing archive attribute) is classified as unimportant for Total Commander, but you can setup a hotkey in customizable Start submenu to perform copy from source to target panel using xcopy /m. The /m switch is exactly you are looking for – xcopy takes only files with archive attribute and clears the attribute after copying.
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