Viktor Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 (edited) Dear All, Does anyone have an idea how to set extended properties of a text file from an autoit script? I mean those properties what you see when right click on any file in explorer and select "properties" the "Summary". This will list things like owner, comment, category, title etc. which you can specify manually. I would like to set these from Autoit... I saw a post which can read them from autoit, I also know about the fact word UDF can do it for Word files, but have not found anything to actually set these values in plain text files... Any help is appreciated: Viktor Edited March 5, 2008 by Viktor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weaponx Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 This was just asked yesterday...use the forum search...http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=65699 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viktor Posted March 5, 2008 Author Share Posted March 5, 2008 This was just asked yesterday...use the forum search...http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=65699Thanks, but my problem is not to read but to write these fields... I have seen these UDFs, as I mentioned in my email, but I was not able to figure out how I could write/set these properties based on the code which reads these properties... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viktor Posted March 5, 2008 Author Share Posted March 5, 2008 Thanks, but my problem is not to read but to write these fields... I have seen these UDFs, as I mentioned in my email, but I was not able to figure out how I could write/set these properties based on the code which reads these properties... Never mind, I have figured it out (google + more autoit forum serach): You have to install DSOFile COM object from microsoft. Then you can read - more importantly you can write the properties of a file! To set properties you cannot use the "shell.application" object as you can do for reading these attributes. $oDocument=ObjCreate("DSOFile.OleDocumentProperties") $odocument.open("C:\test.txt") $odocument.SummaryProperties.author ="Author name" $odocument.Save $odocument.Close Enjoy! Viktor MikahS 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broadcastic Posted September 10, 2017 Share Posted September 10, 2017 Does not seem to work under Win 10. The property is written yet not showing up. I'm trying to change Video title and Copyright etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrewManNH Posted September 11, 2017 Share Posted September 11, 2017 This is a 9 year old topic, I'd be more surprised if it did still work on Win 10 If I posted any code, assume that code was written using the latest release version unless stated otherwise. Also, if it doesn't work on XP I can't help with that because I don't have access to XP, and I'm not going to.Give a programmer the correct code and he can do his work for a day. Teach a programmer to debug and he can do his work for a lifetime - by Chirag GudeHow to ask questions the smart way! I hereby grant any person the right to use any code I post, that I am the original author of, on the autoitscript.com forums, unless I've specifically stated otherwise in the code or the thread post. If you do use my code all I ask, as a courtesy, is to make note of where you got it from. Back up and restore Windows user files _Array.au3 - Modified array functions that include support for 2D arrays. - ColorChooser - An add-on for SciTE that pops up a color dialog so you can select and paste a color code into a script. - Customizable Splashscreen GUI w/Progress Bar - Create a custom "splash screen" GUI with a progress bar and custom label. - _FileGetProperty - Retrieve the properties of a file - SciTE Toolbar - A toolbar demo for use with the SciTE editor - GUIRegisterMsg demo - Demo script to show how to use the Windows messages to interact with controls and your GUI. - Latin Square password generator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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