Can't see TIFF metadata in Windows explorer

[sostek]

We're scanning to tiff and attaching metadata to the files and then saving the file on an NT4 server. If you look at the file from a Windows 2000 machine and roll your mouse over it, you see the metadata entered.

But if you do the same on Windows XP it's like the metadata doesn't even exist. But I know its there because Windows 2000 machines see it. Googling seems to point to MS Raw Thumbnailer for Canon cameras but that does me no good.

Has anyone else run across this? If so, on Windows XP how did you resolve it?

 

[linney]

Are you in fact referring to Alternate Data Streams when you mention Metadata?

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...metadata+lost+save+xp&rnum=1#e76f3476bf75e1c0

Office 2003/XP Add-in: Remove Hidden Data

http://blog.spywareguide.com/2006/04/download_hidden_data_tool_from_microsoft.html

How to minimize metadata in Word 2002

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;290945

Metadata Is Not Copied When You Make an Audio CD-ROM

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297756/en-us?FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH

Alternate Data Streams.

"NTFS permits files and folders to contain alternate data streams. With this feature, you can associate multiple data allocations with a single file or folder. The use of alternate data streams on files and folders has the following limitations:

• Windows Explorer and the dir command do not report the data in alternate data streams as part of the file size or volume statistics. Instead, they show only the total bytes for the primary data stream.

• The output from chkdsk accurately reports the space that a user's data files use, including alternate data streams.

• Disk quotas accurately track and report all data stream allocations that are part of a user's data files.

• NTBackup records the number of bytes backed up in the backup log report. However it does not show which files contain alternate data streams. It also does not show accurate file sizes for files that include data in alternate streams."


When saving some files with this extra information to CD's you see a message often stating that this extra information could not be saved. Is this similar to what you are seeing when you save your files to the NT Server?