File Metadata Changelog

What's new in File Metadata 1.6

• The changes from version 1.5 are fixes and feature enhancements as follows:
• Fix Association Manager crash when adding handlers to certain extensions (issue #69, issue #78)
• In Association Manager, add the display of property display names and the ability to search property names to the Custom Profiles page (issue #70)
• Introduce 'Profile Only' support for cases where Windows will not allow one of its built-in property handlers to be extended (issue #72, issue #56, issue #36, issue #25). The Association Manager detects affected extensions automatically and applies the selected profile while leaving the Windows handler intact. The extension is then marked as Profile + <Windows handler>, and Remove Handler removes only the applied profile. Typically, using Explorer to edit properties added in the profile then succeeds (although this depends on the support provided by the Windows property handler for saving arbitrary properties), but the property values are saved in the file itself, and not the alternate stream used by the File Meta property handler. The Windows Explorer context menu to export metadata therefore exports properties from the file in these cases. Import and delete context menu commands are removed to avoid affecting properties not owned by File Metadata. Command line support for association management as also been updated appropriately. For a discussion of the affected extensions, and restrictions on which properties can be saved, see here.