XYplorer Beta Club

XYplorer stores its comments, tags, labels in its personal space (with scope local to xyplorer), so i'm not able to view any of these three things outside xyplorer.
But if i (1) change the folder icon for a folder and changed icon is stored in folder's metadata in .ini file and (2) save some comment 'for that folder' ALSO in the folder metadata.

Inside XYplorer,
I'm able to see the changed folder icon
BUT NOT ABLE to see the comment for that folder under 'Comments' column or under any other column.

So even if XYplorer does not store its folder comments in the folder metadata,
is there any way INSIDE XYPLORER, to view the 'already stored metadata comment for a folder' (created inside windows explorer or by some other file manager).

See: http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic. ... ata+stream

This isn't possible atm.

But if you're willing to use http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/alternate_ ... reams.html

0. Make a backup of your tag.dat file (in .\Data)!
The script will NOT take care of duplicate files (files which already have a tag and a alternative data stream that should be added!)
1. Download the correct version of AlternateStreamView (either the x86 or x64 version)
2. Open a command prompt
CD into the folder where you extracted this tool (the .zip archive) and enter:

AlternateStreamView.exe /folderpath "<the drive which should be scanned>" /scansubfolders 1 /scomma streams.csv /sort "Filename"

Regarding "<the drive which should be scanned>":
Regardless if it's only a drive (e.g. "C:") or a folder (e.g. "D:\Temp"), please use correct upper / lowercase characters (just the way XY sees these paths)!

The file "streams.csv" will contain all comments.

3. Save the attached script and execute it.
When asked for the .csv file, navigate (again) to the folder of AlternateStreamView and select the streams.csv file.

Current version: 4. Done

Does it work?

@highend

Thanks a lot for putting the effort,

Although i could not understand your post completely :-(, the main thing i found was you were talking one-more level down, ie to preserve the comments attached with the FILES also, while my current problem is to look at he 'comments' which are stored within the FOLDER metadata. I'm confident enough that the point is not far away for me when your reply will come handy as i've a lot to do with files and folders and their organization / re-organization :-)

In Between, I've found the simple way to display the comments associated with the folder by "create new column -> right-click on new column -> 'select property' -> Comments
and XY is able to show the folder metadata comments correctly