X² created folder comments

Astuur · Post by **Astuur** » 2005 Apr 04, 11:37

OKay, maybe a stupid question
Searched here and in the manual, but I could not find it.

When I (Alt+Z) attach a comment to a folder in x² I dont see it any more once I am in Win Explorer (except as an infotip when mousing over the entry)
That is different from the file comments (which I can see in the comment column even in Win Explorer.
This is on XP home SP2 with NTFS.

Is this the normal way, or is there anything I can do to make it work?

Post by **nikos** » 2005 Apr 04, 12:05

i've heard about this one
it looks like XP explorer does folder comments differently
i'll have a look

Astuur · Post by **Astuur** » 2005 Apr 04, 12:16

nikos wrote:i've heard about this one
it looks like XP explorer does folder comments differently
i'll have a look

Thanks very much, Nikos!
The
Infotip=My folder COmment
line is in the
[.ShellClassInfo]
section of the desktop.ini .It just is not diplayed in the comment column
(..or the "Kommentare" column on my German Win )

Post by **nikos** » 2005 Apr 04, 13:22

have you figured out where XP-explorer stores folder comments?

Astuur · Post by **Astuur** » 2005 Apr 04, 15:08

nikos wrote:have you figured out where XP-explorer stores folder comments?

Nope, because in all of my system I dont have any "Comment" displayed for a folder (outside of x²).
Also I am not even sure if there is an official way in XP to create one...

Could this be of any help?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/defau ... ty_set.asp

For Win2000 but not explicitly for XP I have found this:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/defau ... ndlers.asp

Post by **nikos** » 2005 Apr 04, 16:11

the way x2 stores folder comments works in all windows earlier than XP
for some reason m$ boffins decided to change things in xp
i'll have to figure out what exactly happened...

Astuur · Post by **Astuur** » 2005 Apr 04, 16:41

nikos wrote:...i'll have to figure out what exactly happened...

Yep... that's what it looks like. Dammit.
I hope you can manage. Personally I consider Folder Comments even more useful than file comments.
I would hate to loose the column display

Post by **nikos** » 2005 Apr 04, 17:01

but why do you use windows explorer in the first place and don't stick with x2 all along?

Astuur · Post by **Astuur** » 2005 Apr 04, 18:16

nikos wrote:but why do you use windows explorer in the first place and don't stick with x2 all along?

Good Quetsion, Nikos :)
I might do that, once I got the hang of it. Currently I am only starting to find my around all the useful things.
It may sound strange to you, but I still have not come around all its corners and options (not to speak of reading all the pdf - which is nicely done, but l o n g).
On the other hand, I think I remember reading that you yourself did not encourage to use xplorer² as primary shell ...
So WinExplorer is where I start currently.
I have created a "Start x² here...." context entry for folders, and flip over whenever I do some real work .... hey .. its a start, right ?

all for today - closing down now...