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From the article: "Remember: There’s a reason we gave the %localappdata%\lxss\ folder ‘hidden’ & ‘system’ attributes " So if you go messing about in hidden sy

• josho 10y ago
  One could also argue that an editor that loses extended file attributes when editing a file is broken. I would have preferred msft to have posted an article explaining that files have attributes and editors must not loose those attributes when making edits.
  • jahewson 10y ago
    Files on Windows don't have attributes. Files on an NTFS volume may have extended attributes associated with them but you'll need to go out of your way to find them and doing so has never been a requirement of working with files on Windows. Not supporting an obscure non-mandatory thing hardly constitutes "broken". An editor which just kept the existing attributes would still end up with incorrect time stamps - so now all Windows apps need to know how to handle Linux file attributes? Nope - because these files were never meant to be edited by Windows apps. And it works best that way.
    • josho 10y ago
      I didn't realize extended attributes were such an obscure feature. I haven't been on windows for years, yet knew about this feature. I'm on OSX and every now and then see how apps are making interesting use of file attributes (e.g. tags, or remembering the cursor position of a text file when re-opening). So, I'm honestly surprised Windows isn't doing anything with this useful OS feature.