Updated Wiki: FAQ
I will add entries to this section as questions arise.What will change in Explorer when I install your software?Nothing. You will see changes in Explorer only when you use the File Association Manager...
View ArticleUpdated Wiki: FAQ
I will add entries to this section as questions arise.What will change in Explorer when I install your software?Nothing. You will see changes in Explorer only when you use the File Association Manager...
View ArticleUpdated Wiki: Home
Enable Explorer in Vista, Windows 7 and later to see, edit and search on tags and other metadata for any file type In Windows XP, Explorer could see and edit metadata (for example comments or tags) for...
View ArticleUpdated Wiki: Command Line support
Command line support for exporting, importing or deleting File Meta metadata properties is provided by FileMeta.exe (installed in the program files folder 'File Metadata').Here are some examples of how...
View ArticleUpdated Wiki: Command Line support
Command line support for exporting, importing or deleting File Meta metadata properties is provided by FileMeta.exe (installed in the program files folder 'File Metadata').Here are some examples of how...
View ArticleReviewed: File Meta 1.2 (Sep 04, 2014)
Rated 5 Stars (out of 5) - The tool could be improved by adding the featured of creating custom properties. The documentation and discussion alone is highly welcome in the muddy waters of properties...
View ArticleNew Post: Scripting
Hi, Duh, I just looked at the documentation tab !! Skip this discussion. Sorry. I want to write a script that will pickup "words" (pattern based) from filenames and parent/grandparent directories and...
View ArticleNew Post: Scripting
Hi Gaurav Yes, my command line utility does not provide access to properties from a script. But Microsoft provides DSOFile here:...
View ArticleReleased: File Meta 1.2 (May 05, 2014)
This is version 1.2 of File Meta. To migrate from a previous version, uninstall File Metadata, and install Release 1.2. All file association settings and all previously entered metadata will be...
View ArticleUpdated Release: File Meta 1.2 (May 05, 2014)
This is version 1.2 of File Meta. To migrate from a previous version, uninstall File Metadata, and install Release 1.2. All file association settings and all previously entered metadata will be...
View ArticleUpdated Wiki: FAQ
I will add entries to this section as questions arise.What will change in Explorer when I install your software?Nothing. You will see changes in Explorer only when you use the File Association Manager...
View ArticleUpdated Wiki: FAQ
I will add entries to this section as questions arise.What will change in Explorer when I install your software?Nothing. You will see changes in Explorer only when you use the File Association Manager...
View ArticleNew Comment on "Getting Started"
I don't see 'comments' (or many other items) being available for pdf files, they're there for html files though. I have x64 on Windows7
View ArticleNew Post: FileMetadata - problems seeing data fields with pdfs
I've installed File Metadata on a Windows7 64 bit PC. In the Windows Explorer File Details pane I see: (a) For pds: Date Modified, Date Created (b) for Word: Date Modified, Tags, Title, Authors. (c)...
View ArticleNew Post: FileMetadata - problems seeing data fields with pdfs
Hi mmp997 When you used the File Association Manager to configure the extensions you wanted metadata for, what profiles did you pick for the PDF and HTML extensions? Also, did you restart Explorer once...
View ArticleReviewed: File Meta 1.2 (Oct 02, 2014)
Rated 2 Stars (out of 5) - I am unable to get 'comments' in pdfs. In addition it is really difficult to discover on the Codeplex site where to put feedback. I put feedback in one location, and then...
View ArticleNew Post: FileMetadata - problems seeing data fields with pdfs
Word is no problem, I don't have many Word docs I want to comment. For html, on setup I selected that your program should deal with it, i.e., I picked File Property Meta Handler. For pdf, I did not...
View ArticleNew Post: FileMetadata - problems seeing data fields with pdfs
I think that the PDF XChange folk are doing a pretty thorough job by installing a property handler to give you access to such fields as Title and Authors. The standard Adobe reader does not do this....
View ArticleNew Post: FileMetadata - problems seeing data fields with pdfs
Yep. What I have found is that removing PDF XChange also removes the Preview function, there is extensive forum discussion of preview problems with the Windows Explorer / Adobe combination. So (for me)...
View ArticleReviewed: File Meta 1.2 (Oct 02, 2014)
Rated 5 Stars (out of 5) - So far very happy. Also happy with the excellent speedy support for what is, after all, a free product.
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