Where are the Properties?

[Nehmo Sergheyev]

When you right click on a file in Windows Explorer, you can then choose
Properties. In the properties window, you have a General tab and a
Summary tab. (For certain types of files, such as programs, you have
other tabs as well.) On the Summary tab you actually can add comments
and other data of your own.

Where does XP store the text you place on the Summary tab? Is it is some
additional file somewhere?
If you send the file to someone will the comments you added remain with
the file, or will they disappear?


Win XP (SP1)

 

[t@k]

Hi Nehmo Sergheyev,

In microsoft.public.windowsxp.general you remarked...

When you right click on a file in Windows Explorer, you can then choose
Properties. In the properties window, you have a General tab and a
Summary tab. (For certain types of files, such as programs, you have
other tabs as well.) On the Summary tab you actually can add comments
and other data of your own.

Where does XP store the text you place on the Summary tab? Is it is some
additional file somewhere?
If you send the file to someone will the comments you added remain with
the file, or will they disappear?

Experiment... send a file tou yourself.

 

[Alex Nichol]

When you right click on a file in Windows Explorer, you can then choose
Properties. In the properties window, you have a General tab and a
Summary tab. (For certain types of files, such as programs, you have
other tabs as well.) On the Summary tab you actually can add comments
and other data of your own.

Where does XP store the text you place on the Summary tab? Is it is some
additional file somewhere?

 

[Alex Nichol]

When you right click on a file in Windows Explorer, you can then choose
Properties. In the properties window, you have a General tab and a
Summary tab. (For certain types of files, such as programs, you have
other tabs as well.) On the Summary tab you actually can add comments
and other data of your own.

Where does XP store the text you place on the Summary tab? Is it is some
additional file somewhere?

For some file types the definition of the file format concerned
provides for including Summary information - eg JPG, MP3 WAV or DOC
files,
For these, it will go along

For some types though - eg MPG - it is additional 'Metadata' stored in
the NTFS file system entries for the file - and if you try copying to
anything else (eg to a FAT 32 disk) you get a 'There is extra
information that may be lost' (and it will be)

 

[Keyser Soze]

Example:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;237361