Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 14:53:53 -0500 (EST) From: "John Francis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: AW: Change File Attributes Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Frantisek mused: > > Also, I believe the WinXP "properties" of the file are not transferred > with the file. They are most likely stored in the NTFS filesystem on > your disk (that might explain why you can't change them . . .
No - the reason why the posted instructions don't work for Michael are because you can't use that technique with multiple files selected; you can only change those properties for a single file at a time.
It's easy enough to check, if you have access to a Windows XP system. And if you don't have access to one, posting guesses as to just why any particular version of Windows behaves in the way it does is an exercise in futility.
I'm sorry but that's rubbish! ;-)
You *can* change various properties when multiple files are selected.
e.g. with 5 .jpg files selected, properties are...
http://efeatherstone.dyndns.org/~eric/a.jpg
...and I can edit the Author (say)...
http://efeatherstone.dyndns.org/~eric/b.jpg
...which is saved succesfully as shown by looking at the properties of just one of the files afterwards...
http://efeatherstone.dyndns.org/~eric/c.jpg
I can edit any of Title, Subject, Keywords, Comments or Author of multiple files in this way.
Furthermore, these property edits survive when the file is copied over the network to a SAMBA share on an iMac and a SMB share of a FAT32 drive. But most importantly of all (probably) I don't get access to that Summary tab in the properties dialogue whilst the jpg file actually resides *on* the FAT32 drive!
All this from a Windows XP pro PC with an NTFS formatted drive.
Hope that's of some help...
Eric.
