That's correct, just reading it.
What is the trick to post code on the UT?

Al



>Hi Al,
>
>Would you please post the final routine? So, you're only using this program for retrieving the info, not for the writing, correct?
>
>>Naomi,
>>
>>No, but from Yuri's reference in 029288 I can get a lot of information. Ex: referenced below. I don't write to the OS, I just pull it, check it against the tables that I maintain. See if it has changed, and write my comments to my fox tables.
>>
>>I have not had time to revisit the question to learn how to do it in a more direct fashion to the OS.
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>>I am pulling CVS version control tables, which have additional fields, but my routine from Yuri pulls them and adds the field and content information to the temp table which I use to make a comment history before housecleaning.
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>>
>>Al
>>
>>
>>2008-04-09T14:39:23 create this temp.dbf and extract as follows:
>> TEMP.dbf
>> FILENAME C( 50) = "Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (Scherzo).wma"
>> SIZE C( 25) = "600 KB"
>> TYPE C( 25) = "Windows Media Audio file"
>> DATEMODIF C( 25) = "8/29/2002 8:00 AM"
>> DATECREAT C( 25) = "12/14/2005 4:01 PM"
>> DATEACCES C( 25) = "4/9/2008 2:35 PM"
>> ATTRIBUTE C( 25) = "A"
>> STATUS C( 25) = "Online"
>> OWNER C( 25) = "Administrators"
>> AUTHOR C( 25) = "Ludwig van Beethoven, com"
>> TITLE C( 25) = "Symphony No. 9 (Scherzo)"
>> SUBJECT C( 25) = ""
>> CATEGORY C( 25) = "Classical"
>> PAGES C( 25) = ""
>> COMMENTS C( 25) = ""
>> COPYRIGHT C( 25) = ""
>> ARTIST C( 25) = "Ludwig van Beethoven, com"
>> ALBUMTITL C( 25) = ""
>> YEAR C( 25) = ""
>> TRACKNUMB C( 25) = "1"
>> GENRE C( 25) = "Classical"
>> DURATION C( 25) = "0:01:15"
>> BITRATE C( 25) = "64kbps"
>> PROTECTED C( 25) = "No"
>> CAMERAMOD C( 25) = ""
>> DATEPICTU C( 25) = ""
>> DIMENSION C( 25) = ""
>> EPISODENA C( 25) = ""
>> PROGRAMDE C( 25) = ""
>> AUDIOSAMP C( 25) = "16 bit"
>> AUDIOSAM0 C( 25) = "44 kHz"
>> CHANNELS C( 25) = "2 (stereo)"
>> COMPANY C( 25) = ""
>> DESCRIPTI C( 25) = ""
>> FILEVERSI C( 25) = ""
>> PRODUCTNA C( 25) = ""
>> PRODUCTVE C( 25) = ""
>> KEYWORDS C( 25) = ""
>> SHORTNAME C( 15) = ""
>> FILEATTR C( 4) = ""
>> OWNERINFO C( 50) = ""
>>
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>>>So, have you figured a way to write these properties?
>>>
>>>Message #846443
>>>
>>>>Yuri,
>>>>
>>>>Thanks again. This is a good place to start, but the wading is too deep for me right now. I will have to save thos for later!
>>>>
>>>>Al
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>Yuri,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Thanks, that was just what I needed! Now I will have to figure out how to write to this information, say the comment field.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Al
>>>>>
>>>>>Well, "to write to this information", it depends. For Office document properties like "comments", see:
>>>>>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/224351