Julian

I've had my share of trouble with ADS too so I agree that it's better if it
isn't used. I went through the same thought process myself: tags must be file
format constrained... could put in it ADS - UGH!... surely there's another
way?

If the Preview Pane could show a Preview via a shortcut - and why not, the
other pane can - it would be a start...

Thanks for the feedback though,

"cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user)" wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 03:49:00 -0700, Julian
>
> >Another issue related to (3) is that Tags can only be applied to some image
> >types incl JPG but not GIF, not PNG...
>
> >This means I can't do what I want even with a Saved Search using tags...
>
> I read a blog article from the feature team concerned, and the
> thinking has been to shift from separate tagging systems to tagging
> within the internal fields where supported by the file type.
>
> There are pros and cons to this, but one of the cons is that file
> types that don't offer suitable fields, won't be tagged.
>
> AFAIK, XP used to do this using ADS attached to the files being
> tagged. That's NTFS-only, so tags would be lost when carrying files
> around on FAT-formatted USB sticks, etc.
>
> There are also concerns about ADS that make me very happy if they
> remain unused. The shell doesn't UI them to the user, there are no
> limitations on content within these, and code running within these can
> masquerade as the file to which they are attached, when it comes to
> firewall egress control and other integrety checkers.
>
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