Where are my NTFS comments?

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Pappa Georgo

Hi

File comments ( PropertyStorage PIDSI_COMMENTS) are not visible in Windows
Vista!

Is there any hack to solve this problem?
 
Pappa Georgo said:
Hi

File comments ( PropertyStorage PIDSI_COMMENTS) are not visible in Windows
Vista!

Is there any hack to solve this problem?

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Pappa Georgo said:
File comments ( PropertyStorage PIDSI_COMMENTS) are not visible in Windows
Vista!
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Is there any hack to solve this problem?
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I don't recognize that syntax, but maybe I have an answer anyway.
Windows XP used the Alternate Data Streams (ADS) feature of the NTFS
file system to store comments about files. The comments were accessed
by right-clicking a file name, choosing "Properties", then the
"Summary" tab. This technique allowed comments to be attached to files
that didn't otherwise support them, like *.txt files. Vista has
dropped this, so you can attach comments only to files types that
support them (Word or Excel files, for example).

For information about ADS, see
http://members.cox.net/slatteryt/Streams.html
 
Hi,

Thank you for the quick response.

This is very bad news for me, because now I have to write a new file tag
controller subsystem for my project.
The ADS streams works fine, however VISTA's explorer won't show the Comments
anymore.

Is there any method ( shell extension, .net class ) to tell the explorer to
show my details?


Any help would be greately appreciated.
 
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