i badly miss version control on God's own operating system (VMS) - every time you saved and exited a file, it created a new file with the same name but appended a version number, e.g. 'myfile.txt;1' became 'myfile.txt;2'. you could set version control against a file mask (e.g. so it never kept more than 2 versions of a movie file). you could also store metadata about the file (such as comments, author, keywords) and then search for that metadata if you ever couldn't find the file - or use the metadata to compile reports/documentation.
it'd be nice to have even a fraction of that functionality on windows.
noticed you can add metadata to files in windows - is that metadata searchable? is it retrievable (e.g. can it be saved out to a textfile)?, can it be written to/amended from a dos prompt - so if i wrote a batch script to copy a file, could i query/update the metadata at the same time?
googling atm, but not having much luck.
Windows XP nerds - file metadata?
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Tormentius
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