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Posted by Wayne K
Jan 27, 2014 at 08:11 PM

22111,

When I said I wasn’t too worried about proprietary I was referring specifically to file managers, not PIM’s. I see it as less risk because we’re talking about the possible loss of attributes attached to files, not original notes that you’ve created.

Regarding Xplorer2, I have the pro version and did mention it at the beginning. You can’t modify columns.

All this is related to the previous thread about being able to change file attributes so they file information is portable and available no matter what file manager you’re using. That would be nice. I tried creating a poor man’s version of this be incorporating key info in the name. For example, I would include the author, source, and date in the file name for an article. It’s an awkward system because the file names get so long. You also can’t sort files by attributes but you can kind of work around this by doing key word searches instead.

Donald has confirmed to me that he plans to add more customizable columns to XYplorer. I’ll report back when that happens.

Thanks for the other software suggestions.

Wayne