My Windows XP machine has word. I can copy over a .doc file onto my Vista
machine, and the "metadata" copies over just fine. I can see the additional
data I added in the details tab on my Vista machine (even though I don't
have Word on the Vista machine yet).

"Gary Mount" wrote in message
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I have been doing some further experimenting. using a .jpg file with some
comments I added, even when I copy the file to a fat formatted volume, the
data I added is still retained.
I would like to test this on a word document, but I haven't installed
office on my system yet. (I recently had to reinstall my O/S after
accidently reformatting my hard drive).

"Max" wrote in message
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Hi people,

In Windows XP we can create metadata for all type of file (right click on
a file then properties\summary)

but when you transfer a file from XP to Vista all those metadata are been
deleted ! so how can we keep it ? (and edit them under vista)

Thx a lot