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| Karl Prosser 2004-02-10, 3:35 pm |
| i am new to indexserver, however i am intending to make a serach program (or
shell extention) where you can
search based on the summary infomation when you right click/properties of
many files (i.e Title, sjubject,keywords, comment etc)
if a drive is set up with indexing services is it possible to record this
information in the indexing services catalog, and then search by it.. are
there any programs out there currenty that do this sort of thing?
another question is where is this summary information stored? (or is it
different by file types.. i.e the summary of an MP3 is probably stored
inside the mp3, and some code added to the shell by programs that play the
MP3 so you can veiw it?
what say i have an exe , and i put in summary infomation, if i zip that up,
then copy it to another computer then unzip it.. is that summary infomration
still in it?
i'm just wondering these few basic questions to see whether this product can
serve my needs.
Karl
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| Legendsfan 2004-02-11, 3:36 am |
| "Karl Prosser" <Dontspamemekprosser@laborready.com> wrote in message
news:OXzOzzF8DHA.1936@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> i am new to indexserver, however i am intending to make a serach program
(or
> shell extention) where you can
> search based on the summary infomation when you right click/properties of
> many files (i.e Title, sjubject,keywords, comment etc)
>
> if a drive is set up with indexing services is it possible to record this
> information in the indexing services catalog, and then search by it.. are
> there any programs out there currenty that do this sort of thing?
>
Yes, indexing service catalogs the summary information. You just need to
build a search interface, or use the built in query page.
There are products out there that can search the summary information. The
following product is only $25, and simple to use:
http://www.aimingtech.com/aimatfile/index.htm
> another question is where is this summary information stored? (or is it
> different by file types.. i.e the summary of an MP3 is probably stored
> inside the mp3, and some code added to the shell by programs that play the
> MP3 so you can veiw it?
>
The summary information is stored in an alternate data stream for most
files. You can find out more about alternate data streams here:
http://patriot.net/~carvdawg/docs/dark_side.html
On Windows XP the summary information for images is stored within the image
according to www.exif.org standards. This standard can't be read on a
Windows 2000 machine.
> what say i have an exe , and i put in summary infomation, if i zip that
up,
> then copy it to another computer then unzip it.. is that summary
infomration
> still in it?
>
The summary information is lost if the file leaves a NTFS partition. If you
copied a Word doc with summary information onto a floppy you would get a
warning about losing an alternate data stream. Copy over the network should
retain information.
> i'm just wondering these few basic questions to see whether this product
can
> serve my needs.
> Karl
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Indexing service is the only way I've found to extract summary information.
It isn't very well documented in the platform SDK and I don't program in C.
Indexing service makes it easy to extract summary information and store it
in an xml file.
Colin Moloney
legendsfanREMOVESPAM@hotmail.com
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| Karl Prosser 2004-02-11, 8:37 am |
| thanks so much for the useful information. researching this topic was indeed
interesting and enlighting
i came accross aimAtFile as well, though it doesn't seem quite feature full
yet.
thanks for the infromation about ADS.. does anybody know of any libraries
for maniuplating, copyin
"Legendsfan" <legendsfanRemoveSPAM@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Karl Prosser" <Dontspamemekprosser@laborready.com> wrote in message
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> Yes, indexing service catalogs the summary information. You just need to
> build a search interface, or use the built in query page.
> There are products out there that can search the summary information. The
> following product is only $25, and simple to use:
> http://www.aimingtech.com/aimatfile/index.htm
>
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> The summary information is stored in an alternate data stream for most
> files. You can find out more about alternate data streams here:
> http://patriot.net/~carvdawg/docs/dark_side.html
> On Windows XP the summary information for images is stored within the
image
> according to www.exif.org standards. This standard can't be read on a
> Windows 2000 machine.
>
>
> up,
> infomration
> The summary information is lost if the file leaves a NTFS partition. If
you
> copied a Word doc with summary information onto a floppy you would get a
> warning about losing an alternate data stream. Copy over the network
should
> retain information.
>
> can
>
> Indexing service is the only way I've found to extract summary
information.
> It isn't very well documented in the platform SDK and I don't program in
C.
> Indexing service makes it easy to extract summary information and store it
> in an xml file.
>
> Colin Moloney
> legendsfanREMOVESPAM@hotmail.com
>
>
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| Karl Prosser 2004-02-11, 8:37 am |
| thanks so much for the useful information. researching this topic was indeed
interesting and enlighting
i came accross aimAtFile as well, though it doesn't seem quite feature full
yet.
thanks for the infromation about ADS.. does anybody know of any libraries
for maniuplating, copying etc? or api calls etc.
i noticed that when i editing summary information then copied it accross the
network, the summary
information was lost (despite the destination being NTFS also)
i was wonder how easy it would be to make a program that could get all the
ADS associated with a file
in a directory (and subdirectories), then maybe extract these files, zip em
up in a file called whatever.ext.ADS
in the same directory, so they could be copied, put onto CD etc.. and then
the same tool could also be used to
extract the ADS from this file, and put into the NTFS system (when i mean
easy, i know how to easily do everything other than the ADS stuff).
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| Colin Moloney 2004-02-11, 9:37 am |
| I made a VB app that queries the indexing service and stores the summary
information in a xml document, but I'm not sure how to import the data back
into the ADS. I too would find it helpful to import
My experiences with copying a file over the network is that it will retain
the summary information (ADS).
"Karl Prosser" <Dontspamemekprosser@laborready.com> wrote in message
news:%23MmfpiO8DHA.2924@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> thanks so much for the useful information. researching this topic was
indeed
> interesting and enlighting
> i came accross aimAtFile as well, though it doesn't seem quite feature
full
> yet.
>
> thanks for the infromation about ADS.. does anybody know of any libraries
> for maniuplating, copying etc? or api calls etc.
> i noticed that when i editing summary information then copied it accross
the
> network, the summary
> information was lost (despite the destination being NTFS also)
>
> i was wonder how easy it would be to make a program that could get all the
> ADS associated with a file
> in a directory (and subdirectories), then maybe extract these files, zip
em
> up in a file called whatever.ext.ADS
> in the same directory, so they could be copied, put onto CD etc.. and then
> the same tool could also be used to
> extract the ADS from this file, and put into the NTFS system (when i mean
> easy, i know how to easily do everything other than the ADS stuff).
>
>
>
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