File Properties

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I'm trying to make a DB which is an index of a large set of files, ultimately
I will abstract the files so that people can search a topic in the DB and
identify the files/history of work previously done on that topic. The filesa
are of various types of office documents. I'd like to be able to read the
file properties into the DB, so far all I can get is the Path/Title and the
document type. There is probably an app to do this, but I haven't had any
luck locating it yet.


Your code works for MDB files but I'm looking for a general solution for all
files in the drive/path.

So far I can use FileSearch to read the path/filenames into a DB. By
recursing FileSearch with different filetypes Ican determine the filetype and
store that as well. At a minimum I'd like to pick up the date and author name
as well.

I'm working on an index of documents in a drive that is very large.
Eventually I'd like to use OLE to pen the documents and scan for keywords or
some such thing. Right now I'd be happy to know which authors are still alive.
 
I found a reference to dsofile.dll here that looks like it should work, but
I can't get it to install.

I'll check your link, thanks.
 
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