I can do what you described Eric, here on my Win 2000 machine at work. However, when I emailed the picture to myself the data was missing. XP may be different, I'll try when I get home.
Just my 0.02 Dave S On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 17:47:56 -0500 (EST), John Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > >
