File names in blue

[Amy]

File names are appearing in blue on our network drives.
At first I thought this was due to a long file name
convention, but even a file name "book1 " appears in blue,
while some other name appear in black. What is going on
here? Can we make all file names appear in black.
w
We have installed all sp's and security patches. Is this
related to one of these updates?

 

[Torgeir Bakken (MVP)]

File names are appearing in blue on our network drives.
At first I thought this was due to a long file name
convention, but even a file name "book1 " appears in blue,
while some other name appear in black. What is going on
here? Can we make all file names appear in black.
w
We have installed all sp's and security patches. Is this
related to one of these updates?

Hi

This usually indicates compressed files...

 

[Larc]

| File names are appearing in blue on our network drives.
| At first I thought this was due to a long file name
| convention, but even a file name "book1 " appears in blue,
| while some other name appear in black. What is going on
| here? Can we make all file names appear in black.
| w
| We have installed all sp's and security patches. Is this
| related to one of these updates?

They are probably compressed files (occurs with NTFS). If you'd rather have all
files showing in the same color, go to Control Panel > Folder Options > View tab
and uncheck "Show encrypted or compressed NTFS files in color" (it should be
next to last entry under Advanced settings).

Larc



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[Alex Nichol]

File names are appearing in blue on our network drives.
At first I thought this was due to a long file name
convention, but even a file name "book1 " appears in blue,
while some other name appear in black

Blue is used to indicate files or folders that have been compressed by
using NTFS file compression (which may have been done by Disk Cleanup).
THe content is accessible - they decompress on the fly, and is fine for
files that get rare use

 

[David]

File names are appearing in blue on our network drives.
At first I thought this was due to a long file name
convention, but even a file name "book1 " appears in blue,
while some other name appear in black. What is going on
here? Can we make all file names appear in black.
w
We have installed all sp's and security patches. Is this
related to one of these updates?

XP will compress seldom used files to save drive space. When those
files are needed, XP will decompress them. These compressed files are
colored blue.

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