# Working ONLY with FLAC files — A Simple Question **URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/working-only-with-flac-files-a-simple-question/61430 **Category:** Support **Created:** [June 29, 2023, 4:48am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/working-only-with-flac-files-a-simple-question/61430 "2023-06-29T04:48:04Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 4
### Author: ![Doug\_Mackie](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/doug_mackie/32/279_2.png) [@Doug\_Mackie](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Doug_Mackie) #### Post date: [June 29, 2023, 3:30pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/working-only-with-flac-files-a-simple-question/61430/4 "2023-06-29T15:30:53Z")
**Consider Making Your Library Files Read-only** After tagging your library files as you want them tagged, consider making them read-only. If someone removes that attribute on certain files, you can easily detect the change through Windows Search by searching against the read-only and archive attributes: **attributes:\<\>33** 32 is the Archive flag plus 1 for Read-only. You can also display file attributes in explorer as a column. In that column **RA** indicates read-only. If a file in the column does not show an **R** , then that file is not read-only. Attribute query details are found here: [https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/fede1d8e-130c-4e69-9b2b-48cf3f904c43/windows-search-advanced-query-syntax-aqs-and-file-attributes?forum=w7itproui](https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/fede1d8e-130c-4e69-9b2b-48cf3f904c43/windows-search-advanced-query-syntax-aqs-and-file-attributes?forum=w7itproui) You might also want to warn library users against removing the read-only attribute from the library originals. If they really need to add their own tags, then they should make local working copies of the files. UPDATE: additional (more complete) references kindly provided by LyricsLover in the German discussions: [Attrib - Edit file attributes - Windows CMD - SS64.com](https://ss64.com/nt/attrib.html#attributes) > **[File Attribute Constants (WinNT.h) - Win32 apps](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/file-attribute-constants)** > > File attributes are metadata values stored by the file system on disk and are used by the system and are available to developers via various file I/O APIs. --- _[View the full topic](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/working-only-with-flac-files-a-simple-question/61430)._