I would like to revive the stone age old descript.ion concept supported by TC. But TC does not update file changes by itself. Makes sense. But then I noticed the included old entry in XYPLORER. Has TC supported this file change management in the past. Is it enabled by some hidden INI setting ?
Regards
handling files commnents in descript.ion subsidiary files
Post by Leopoldus » 16 Oct 2004 20:29
Some filemanagers (e.g. Total Commander and some others) allow to handle extended information (comments) for files in subsidiary files of type descript.ion, creating them in the same folder as is the objected file. But TrackerV does not work with these subsidiary files.
Naturally the result is always and totally lost information if using TrackerV for copyiing/moving/renaming of files.
If in Total Commander I rename a file C:\Documents\AAA.doc to [/b]C:\Documents\BBB.doc[/b], the proper changes are automatically made in files C:\Documents\descript.ion in this folder, so all the commets to the former file C:\Documents\AAA.doc belong now to the new file [/b]C:\Documents\BBB.doc[/b]; and this works the same way if move the file file C:\Documents\AAA.doc to C:\News\AAA.doc, etc.
But when I rename or move in TrackerV the file file C:\Documents\AAA.doc to C:\News\AAA.doc, the comment to this file still remains in the file C:\Documents\descript.ion, so it is not more associated with the faile and is practically lost.
I would like to revive the stone age old descript.ion concept supported by TC. But TC does not update file changes by itself. Makes sense. But then I noticed the included old entry in XYPLORER. Has TC supported this file change management in the past. Is it enabled by some hidden INI setting ?
Regards
<some text from the xyplorer forum>
Are you sure you have the right forum / topic cause it looks like you hijacked a random thread
Please inklude links if you quote some random text (source: https://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic.php?t=137)
What is "TrackerV" (I could find anything about that)
And most important: what is your point
HYPO wrote: ↑2024-04-17, 06:15 UTC
But when I rename or move in TrackerV the file file C:\Documents\AAA.doc to C:\News\AAA.doc, the comment to this file still remains in the file C:\Documents\descript.ion[/i]
I referred to a behavior TC might once have had, and maybe still has, if one knows how-to. Explanation follows.
The content of descript.ion is valid as long no one changes the filenames commented on in their current location, or changes the location.
If any such changes happens then descript.ion is no longer valid. And then what. That was the reason for asking my question in this thread. Its about the validity of the descript.ion file.
I google'd around and stumbled over the old entry included above. Someone in an arbitrary forum claimed TC to have a useful behavior, I have never seen myself. That TC can track file name/location changes and update descript.ion automatically to reflect this. So I asked here, is it really possible to have TC behave like that. Simple question.
Even after 30 years use I still learn new trick related to TC. Occasionally.
See Options > Operation > [X] "Copy comments with files" and related settings next to it. If you need explanations for these settings press F1 while in that dialog.
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cause it looks like you hijacked a random thread 
