Hi ronco,
I do not know of any such third party File Manager. However, this is not saying very much since I have very little experience with alternatives to Explorer. It is a shame if alternative File Managers do not exploit the property system: it defines more than 2600 properties and their associated metadata, and makes them all accessible through a reasonably straightforward API. Though, of course, how most of these properties are stored is not defined by out-of-the-box Windows for most file types, hence File Meta. If I discover (or anybody can point out) a third-party File Manager that does respect properties, I will mention it in the documentation.
On the links, I'm not experiencing the same problems as you are. On my Windows 7 system, Windows Explorer shows and allows the editing of metadata properties for both hard links and symbolic links (to avoid any ambiguity, I mean the links created using mklink, and you do have to give the link a name with the same extension as the linked file to make it work). Changes are reflected, as you would expect, both on the original file and other links to the file.
I'm glad that you're finding my efforts useful!
Dijji
I do not know of any such third party File Manager. However, this is not saying very much since I have very little experience with alternatives to Explorer. It is a shame if alternative File Managers do not exploit the property system: it defines more than 2600 properties and their associated metadata, and makes them all accessible through a reasonably straightforward API. Though, of course, how most of these properties are stored is not defined by out-of-the-box Windows for most file types, hence File Meta. If I discover (or anybody can point out) a third-party File Manager that does respect properties, I will mention it in the documentation.
On the links, I'm not experiencing the same problems as you are. On my Windows 7 system, Windows Explorer shows and allows the editing of metadata properties for both hard links and symbolic links (to avoid any ambiguity, I mean the links created using mklink, and you do have to give the link a name with the same extension as the linked file to make it work). Changes are reflected, as you would expect, both on the original file and other links to the file.
I'm glad that you're finding my efforts useful!
Dijji