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Dijji / FileMeta

Enable Explorer in Vista, Windows 7 and later to see, edit and search on tags and other metadata for any file type
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Autodesk delete metadata (?) #74

Open ChristianGaede opened 4 years ago

ChristianGaede commented 4 years ago

Translated with google Translate:

After editing and saving .ipt .iam .ipn files the metadata is missing.

Thanks a lot!

Dijji commented 4 years ago

Some file editing programs use an update strategy that goes: write new file, delete old file, rename new file to old file name. This has the benefit of protecting the original file should a problem occur while writing the new one, but destroys any meta data to the old file when it is deleted.

Many file editors replace the contents of a file in place, and so do not have this problem. But where it does occur, I know of no way round it other than to backup and restore the meta data.

Dijji

warrentdo commented 4 years ago

Hello, I dont fully understand the issue here. I have Autodesk inventor ipt, iam files and the iproperties (metadata inside the files) are still present.

So far this is a great program. Regards Warren.