I couldn't find any issue for this feature so i opened one.
One of the useful feature for filefield and all module based on filefield is per file permission.
One use case is for photo galleries. Users can have public and private photos on each album.

The question is how to implement it. The first thing which comes into my mind is a simple checkbox for filefield items to let the user decide which one to show and also provide to different access for each filefield on drupal cck permissions. One for files without the tick and one for the rest.

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FileField does not have per-file permissions. However if you create a node for each file, you can use any node access control module to restrict access to the files also (which will inherit access from the node).

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Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Marking won't fix as we can no longer include new features in FileField now that it's been moved to core.