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How to Get Detailed File Information of file ?
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RLN
2006-10-30 09:48:01 UTC
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How to Get Detailed file information of file using win32 API.

Please tell a code snippet or any other resource.

Example : On NTFS Volume the following file information is available in
explorer. How to retreive that using win32 API ?
Comments,
Title,
author,
category,
subject,
keywords,


Please suggest regarding this
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Don Burn
2006-10-30 11:24:30 UTC
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This is not information stored in a known structure in NTFS, there is
probably a shell extension that is looking at the file type and knowing the
individual file formats is reading out the data.
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Post by RLN
How to Get Detailed file information of file using win32 API.
Please tell a code snippet or any other resource.
Example : On NTFS Volume the following file information is available in
explorer. How to retreive that using win32 API ?
Comments,
Title,
author,
category,
subject,
keywords,
Please suggest regarding this
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RLN
2006-10-31 06:16:01 UTC
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ok. I think whatever column i mentioned is common to all files in NTFS drive.
Is it ?

Will you able to tell what API can be used to get this information.
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Post by Don Burn
This is not information stored in a known structure in NTFS, there is
probably a shell extension that is looking at the file type and knowing the
individual file formats is reading out the data.
--
Don Burn (MVP, Windows DDK)
Windows 2k/XP/2k3 Filesystem and Driver Consulting
http://www.windrvr.com
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Post by RLN
How to Get Detailed file information of file using win32 API.
Please tell a code snippet or any other resource.
Example : On NTFS Volume the following file information is available in
explorer. How to retreive that using win32 API ?
Comments,
Title,
author,
category,
subject,
keywords,
Please suggest regarding this
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WM_QUIT
RLN
Paweł Pawlak
2006-11-01 11:00:59 UTC
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Post by RLN
ok. I think whatever column i mentioned is common to all files in NTFS drive.
Is it ?
Will you able to tell what API can be used to get this information.
The data you are referring to is stored in streams named
"DocumentSummaryInformation" and "SummaryInformation".

Check this out, maybe this would be of some help to you:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/stg/stg/the_documentsummaryinformation_and_userdefined_property_sets.asp

Pawel
RLN
2006-11-03 04:37:01 UTC
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Thanks for the information. I got the concept and also retrieved the
respective columns
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Post by Paweł Pawlak
Post by RLN
ok. I think whatever column i mentioned is common to all files in NTFS drive.
Is it ?
Will you able to tell what API can be used to get this information.
The data you are referring to is stored in streams named
"DocumentSummaryInformation" and "SummaryInformation".
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/stg/stg/the_documentsummaryinformation_and_userdefined_property_sets.asp
Pawel
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