WIN32_FIND_DATA (Windows CE 5.0)

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This structure describes a file found by the FindFirstFile, FindFirstFileEx or FindNextFile function.

typedef struct _WIN32_FIND_DATA { DWORD dwFileAttributes; FILETIME ftCreationTime; FILETIME ftLastAccessTime; FILETIME ftLastWriteTime; DWORD nFileSizeHigh; DWORD nFileSizeLow; DWORD dwOID; TCHAR cFileName[MAX_PATH]; } WIN32_FIND_DATA;

Members

  • dwFileAttributes
    File attributes of the file found. The following table shows the possible values for dwFileAttribute. dwFileAttributes can be set to any combination of these values.

    Value Description
    FILE_ATTRIBUTE_ARCHIVE Indicates that the file or directory is an archive file or directory. Applications use this attribute to mark files for backup or removal.
    FILE_ATTRIBUTE_COMPRESSED Indicates that the file or directory is compressed. For a file, this means that all of the data in the file is compressed. For a directory, this means that compression is the default for newly created files and subdirectories.
    FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY Indicates that the handle identifies a directory.
    FILE_ATTRIBUTE_ENCRYPTED Indicates that the file or directory is encrypted. For a file, this means that all data streams are encrypted. For a directory, this means that encryption is the default for newly created files and subdirectories.
    FILE_ATTRIBUTE_HIDDEN Indicates that the file or directory is hidden. It is not included in an ordinary directory listing.
    FILE_ATTRIBUTE_INROM Indicates that this file is an operating system file stored in ROM. These files are read-only; they cannot be modified.
    FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL Indicates that the file or directory has no other attributes set. This attribute is valid only if used alone.
    FILE_ATTRIBUTE_READONLY Indicates that the file or directory is read-only. Applications can read the file but cannot write to it or delete it. In the case of a directory, applications cannot delete it.
    FILE_ATTRIBUTE_REPARSE_POINT Indicates that the file has an associated reparse point.
    FILE_ATTRIBUTE_ROMMODULE Indicates that this file is an operating system file stored in ROM and executed directly from ROM, rather than being first copied to RAM. The CreateFile function cannot be used to access this file, instead the LoadLibrary and CreateProcess functions must be used.
    FILE_ATTRIBUTE_ROMSTATICREF Indicates that the file is a DLL module that has an implicit reference from at least one other file that is in the modules section of the image. A file having this attribute cannot replace the functionality of the DLL with a RAM copy of the same DLL. A file having this attribute must also have the FILE_ATTRIBUTE_INROM and FILE_ATTRIBUTE_ROMMODULE attributes.
    FILE_ATTRIBUTE_SPARSE_FILE Indicates that the file is a sparse file.
    FILE_ATTRIBUTE_SYSTEM Indicates that the file or directory is part of the operating system or is used exclusively by the operating system.
    FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TEMPORARY Indicates that the file is being used for temporary storage. File systems attempt to keep all of the data in memory for quicker access, rather than flushing it back to mass storage. A temporary file should be deleted by the application as soon as it is no longer needed.
  • ftCreationTime
    FILETIME structure containing the time the file was created. FindFirstFile and FindNextFile report file times in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) format. These functions set the FILETIME members to zero if the file system containing the file does not support this time member. You can use the FileTimeToLocalFileTime function to convert from UTC to local time, and then use the FileTimeToSystemTime function to convert the local time to a SYSTEMTIME structure containing individual members for the month, day, year, weekday, hour, minute, second, and millisecond.

  • ftLastAccessTime
    FILETIME structure containing the time that the file was last accessed. The time is in UTC format; the FILETIME members are zero if the file system does not support this time member.

  • ftLastWriteTime
    FILETIME structure containing the time that the file was last written to. The time is in UTC format; the FILETIME members are zero if the file system does not support this time member.

  • nFileSizeHigh
    High-order DWORD value of the file size, in bytes. This value is zero unless the file size is greater than MAXDWORD. The size of the file is equal to (nFileSizeHigh * MAXDWORD+1) + nFileSizeLow.

  • nFileSizeLow
    Low-order DWORD value of the file size, in bytes.

  • dwOID
    Object identifier of the file.

  • cFileName
    Null-terminated string that is the name of the file.

    Note   Versions 2.12 and earlier of Windows CE assigned OIDs to objects in other file systems, such as the FAT file system. These OIDs were guaranteed to be unique within a volume, but not across multiple volumes. Effective with version 3.0, the only file and directory objects that have valid, unique OIDs are in the object store. Database objects, on any file system, have valid, unique OIDs.

Remarks

Not all file systems can record creation and last access time and not all file systems record them in the same manner. For example, the object store (RAM) file system maintains only the last modified time.

If a file has a long file name, the complete name appears in the cFileName member.

Requirements

OS Versions: Windows CE 1.0 and later.
Header: Winbase.h.

See Also

FILETIME | FindFirstFile | FindNextFile | FindFirstFileEx

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