Hi,
I'm a newbie and need advice on how to enter text into the content column and make it visible.
I've searched Preferences, the Help files and the forum, but I can't find anything. I want to insert the website addresses of PDF files I've downloaded.
My thanks in advance for your help and suggestions
Which column is this?
You'll find it in 'Help' under File Operations > Editing Mega Data > Extended Properties
What is unclear to me is how the Content (text) file for a file (whateverfilename.pdf) would differ from the Description (text) file for this same file (whateverfilename.pdf) in terms of file name and extention.
Also, I wonder if there are size limits on Content files, and, if so, how these limits can be extended. I want to store hyperlinks in the Content column, and these can sometimes be very long.
Here is the 'Help' entry on the Content column:
Extended Properties //
The extended metadata properties are properties that theoretically can apply to any file. If the selected file formats support those properties natively (for example, JPEG files do) then the information will be stored in the file itself. If the selected file formats don't support these properties (like .txt files, for example) then Opus will attempt to store the information in an Alternate Data Stream attached to the file. Because only NTFS file systems support the ADS system, these properties won't be available for files stored on other file systems.
Comment: Specify a comment for the file. If the file format supports a comment field natively (and Opus supports metadata for that file format), then the comment will be stored in the file itself. If not, Opus will use an ADS stream to store the comment. You can also choose to use the descript.ion comments system - this lets you save comments for all file systems, but results in an additional data file being placed in the same folder. See the File Descriptions page for more information about file comments.
Tags: Specify tags, or keywords, for the file.
To specify multiple tags, separate then with a semi-colon.
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I think we’re talking about the Comment column, not Content (which isn’t a column AFAIK).
Comment shows the same (usually) user-editable string as Description. (The difference is that Description also shows other information as well, such as image dimensions.)
