Eric Featherstone mused: > > At 08:00 pm 20/02/2005, you wrote: > >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! ;-)
No - it's tested and verified behaviour. > 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. And, presumably, so can Bob W. But I can't. And neither can Michael. So - do you want to guess just *why* this particular discrepancy arises? I don't. You already know my opinion on diagnosing what Windows does.
