Is it possible to read/write metadata stored in files under the windows os? (The data you can reach by right clicking a file in Windows and choosing properties)?

 At what point did this place become a f***ing help forum?

seconddevil:

 At what point did this place become a f***ing help forum?

 My bad. I take it back

PJH:

seconddevil:

 At what point did this place become a f***ing help forum?

http://forums.thedailywtf.com/forums/19.aspx

What I really found funny is that noone realised that the OP wasn't actually asking a legitimate question, he was attempting to pose SPAM as a question. Re read the OP and notice the link under the question, which completely unrelated to the question.

Hitsuji:

What I really found funny is that noone realised that the OP wasn't actually asking a legitimate question, he was attempting to pose SPAM as a question. Re read the OP and notice the link under the question, which completely unrelated to the question.

The link in OP's signature has been removed. If it reappears, OP will be banned.

BTW, thread moved to "Coding Related Help & Questions".

Hitsuji:

What I really found funny is that noone realised that the OP wasn't actually asking a legitimate question, he was attempting to pose SPAM as a question. Re read the OP and notice the link under the question, which completely unrelated to the question.

bjolling:

Hitsuji:

What I really found funny is that noone realised that the OP wasn't actually asking a legitimate question, he was attempting to pose SPAM as a question. Re read the OP and notice the link under the question, which completely unrelated to the question.

That's unfortunate because I was looking forward to the replies. I only know it's stored in a separate stream in the filesystem. I suppose Google will help me if I ever need to access it

An Alternate Data Stream by the name of DocumentSummaryInformation; there are some other alternate streams that are common, like "ZoneIdentifier... and if course $DATA, where the standard file data goes.

Oh... but the question was how to access it... that's a tad more difficult.The "Easy" way is with Vista or later's FindFirstStreamW and FindNextStreamW functions; with older NT OS's you need to resort to either BackupRead, or, when backup privileges aren't available, NTQueryInformationFile.

ammoQ:

Hitsuji:

What I really found funny is that noone realised that the OP wasn't actually asking a legitimate question, he was attempting to pose SPAM as a question. Re read the OP and notice the link under the question, which completely unrelated to the question.

 

The link in OP's signature has been removed. If it reappears, OP will be banned.

 

BTW, thread moved to "Coding Related Help & Questions".

bjolling:

Well, the signature has reappeared...

OP banned & renamed

bjolling:

Hitsuji:

What I really found funny is that noone realised that the OP wasn't actually asking a legitimate question, he was attempting to pose SPAM as a question. Re read the OP and notice the link under the question, which completely unrelated to the question.

That's unfortunate because I was looking forward to the replies. I only know it's stored in a separate stream in the filesystem. I suppose Google will help me if I ever need to access it

Some file formats (mp3, doc, docx, etc.) specify a means to save metadata within the file instead of in an alternate stream.  Microsoft recommends doing this when defining new file formats so as to avoid relying on the filesystem supporting alternate streams.