Custom file properties missing between WinXP and W2KP

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Bob Anderson

Hopefully this post will get an answer, I haven't had much luck with the
newsgroups but I can't find any reference to this problem on the KB.
I have a client who has added custom file properties such as author, subject
and comments to some .TIF and .PDF files on a Windows SBS 2000 server. If
the author of these files is using W2KP then WinXP users cannot see the
comments and other custom file properties. The same applies if the situation
is reversed, the W2KP cannot read file entries from a WinXP author.
I have tried copying the file from the server to the local station also and
this didn't change anything.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
 
Did you ever have any luck on this? We are having, what I believe, is
the same issue.
 
usenethelp said:
Did you ever have any luck on this? We are having, what I believe, is
the same issue.
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Please quote from the post referred to, and post as a follow up to it.
As it is there is nothing to indicate what you are talking about
 
The original post was,
"Hopefully this post will get an answer, I haven't had much luck with the
newsgroups but I can't find any reference to this problem on the KB.
I have a client who has added custom file properties such as author, subject
and comments to some .TIF and .PDF files on a Windows SBS 2000 server. If
the author of these files is using W2KP then WinXP users cannot see the
comments and other custom file properties. The same applies if the situation
is reversed, the W2KP cannot read file entries from a WinXP author.
I have tried copying the file from the server to the local station also and
this didn't change anything.
Any ideas would be appreciated."

This was posted on September 3rd, 2004 and the 2 responses below are the
first ones. The problem was never rectified, the client has stopped trying
to use this feature as it presents a legal situation of it isn't consistent.
 
Bob said:
This was posted on September 3rd, 2004 and the 2 responses below are the
first ones. The problem was never rectified, the client has stopped trying
to use this feature as it presents a legal situation of it isn't consistent.
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Posts made that far back will have dropped off people's news databases,
so quoting is all the more important.

XP made some changes in implementation of NTFS: they *ought* to be
backward compatible so as to see things correctly if held on a 2K
machine, seen from XP; but quite likely not the other way around
 
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