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Reputation: 583

How to unhide folders without knowing their names

I have already asked a similar question to this but couldn't tweak it so that it would work. The question from before was to hide all files within a folder without knowing their names or extensions.

Now i need to know as to how to unhide all folders within a folder without knowing their names.

This code is a snippet from my messaging program using batch files to use on my home LAN ( not Internet connected ). 

Cd c:/users/Admin/desktop/messenger/users

For /d D%% in (*) do (

Attrib -h -s *

)

Tree
Pause

My problem is that the for command seems to execute but when tree is run it still shows that no subfolders exist

Upvotes: 0

Views: 930

Answers (2)

Vimal Ghorecha
Vimal Ghorecha

Reputation: 86

Why bother for running commands in Windows Command Prompt.

Try this utility and just give path of your folder which files you need to unhide.

www.vhghorecha.in/unhide-all-files-folders-virus/

Happy Knowledge Sharing

Upvotes: 0

James L.
James L.

Reputation: 9453

The for command excludes hidden files/folders by default. You have to alter the command to include them. From within a batch file:

cd /d c:/users/Admin/desktop/messenger/users
for /f "delims=" %%d in ('dir /ad /ah /b') do attrib -h -s "%%d"

The /f option tells it to execute the dir /ad /ah /b command and hand each item it finds to the %%d variable to process in the do portion of the for statement. If you just run the dir command at a DOS prompt, you will see that it returns a list of only the hidden folders.

Upvotes: 4

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