hello,
when I am opening a VeraCrypt's container in directory opus , I'm not able to see the field 'rating' of the files (whatever its column position). It works well for non VeraCrypt container and it also work well on VC when I am using the standard windows' file explorer. It is a minor bug but I just wanted to raise it. Many thanks, it is really a great product.
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Thank you for your prompt response. Upon further investigation, I discovered that the behavior varies depending on the VC format option selected. When using NTFS, the rating displays correctly, but with exFAT, the rating does not appear. It's not a major issue; I will simply switch to NTFS.
This is expected behaviour. exFAT doesn't support filesystem metadata, NTFS does.
DOpus still supports a couple of other ways to do this if you really wanted to stick to FAT, like discript.ion files.
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Hello, thank you for your response. I have switched to NTFS. However, just to let you know, with exFAT, I am able to view the ratings using the native Windows Explorer.
I think that's because Opus does not save that data in the Alternative Data Stream OpusMetaInformation, for those filetypes, but rather in the corresponding field.
So no ADS involved in those filetypes.
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Probably.
It's been said exFAT does not handle metadata, which is false. It does not handle Alterative Data Streams, which is specific to NTFS, and some of the metadata can be stored in these ADS, but not all.
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Yes. "Rating", "Tags", and "Comments" are stored in the file system, even in ancient FAT like in my first example.
I'm intrigued by this. So, you can save the same data as in your screenshot but in a txt file for example?
No, text files don't support anything but pure content. All this fancy extra info needs to be stored elsewhere.
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And that would be the ADS. And in your capture you can obviously save that data because those specific files have specific fields for that purpose. That's what I said at the beginning.
Did I say otherwise?
TBH, at first I thought you were implying that this data could be saved in an ADS for any file, even on a FAT filesystem. But it was probably me who misunderstood. So, all good!
Apologies, I realized I didn't explicitly mention it, although it was visible in my screenshot. It works fine for a .MP3 or a .TXT file on both exFAT and NTFS, but for an MP4 file, it only works under NTFS. Thank you once again for your assistance and suggestions.
when I do a dir /R on this directory I can see that the .txt file has a OpusMetaInformation under ntfs :
but I can't save it under exFAT for the same .txt:
so it confirms your analysis
Looks like a bug or limitation.
Directory Opus 13.12.3 (Beta) Build 9140 x64
OS 10.0 (B:19045 P:2 T:1) SP 0.0
https://filesamples.com/formats/mp4
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Yes, it used to work for me in the past, but I recently switched to a new version of VeraCrypt (that no longer supports TrueCrypt files) and move from 12 to 13 on directory opus. So I am not sure what happened. I will install the beta version tomorrow and I'll let you know if it fixed it. Thanks !
Still no luck with the beta version. Anyway, I’ve switched to using a container with NTFS, and it seems to perform even faster. I’ve learned a few things along the way, so thank you, everyone!