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I tried searching for this and did run across a few answers that would work in Linux using Sodu but unfortunately I need the same option for Windows. 
At the office, there is a Network folder that is used for special purposes and it contains about 200 subfolders with each of them containing a single file.  I am trying to solve a riddle that would require knowing the owners of the single file stored in each subfolder.  There are two possible owners for the files.  The answer to that question might tell me if the reason for a recent problem what i think it is, or not.
What I need is a list showing each subfolder on the network drive along with the name of the owner(s) of the single file inside each subfolder.  The single file in those folders has the same name so the list has to show the name of the each subfolder or I wont be able to tell them apart.
I was doing this manually and realized there had to be a better way :)  And I knew exactly where to look for an answer :) 
Thanks for pointers

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I have probably looked at close to a dozen but none of them are as simple as they should be and most don't seem to work as expected if at all. 

When you open windows explorer, you are provided the option of adding numerous columns with close to a hundred assorted titles ranging from City, State,  Zip to URL and many more.  However, I cannot find anything that will allow me to Use these columns by adding that information to a file's metadata.  Right click on any file and you will find various data fields on most but i can't find an editor to allow me to add any new fields to any of them.

If the file is an Image file is the only exception where there are plenty of "exif editors" out there to change all kinds of things related to the image.

I would love to be able to add a few of those tags to some folders as it would be a terrific help if i need to sort the folders into a different order than simple alphabetic by the name in the Name column.  Even though i can add the columns where the data would be displayed i have no way to enter the data that would be displayed there.  No way to use them as a preference to sort the display by or anything else.

This is true for simple files such a a text file.   Is there a utility out there to allow something like this to be done?   Especially one that works as it should such as right click the file or folder to display the current meta data tags  showing what is in them and allow editing that content or even better adding new metadata tags for things like URL that could store the link where the file came from?

If so, where can i find such a utility.  Any info greatly appreciated.


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Windows 10 20H2 ad Office 365 latest version

When I send email from Outlook the name displayed seems to vary in format for no particular reason.   I need a way for every email to show the display name  PLUS   the actual email address associated with it in Contacts.  This same format needs to apply when receiving email from anyone but i cannot find any place to chose what i want displayed in those fields. 

I have no idea why a very few contacts work in the way I need them to but most do not.
John and Mary are husband and wife but Johns emails always show his full email address inside a parenthesis after showing his display name of John Doe.
(example To:  John Doe ([email protected])

When receiving email from people, I would also prefer that it show both the display name as well as the complete email right beside it in the same manner rather than showing only the display name.  Oddly enough, on John Doe, when he send me email it dos NOT show his full email address but only his display name which  makes me wonder if this is due to something done by 'autofill'

I have noticed that a few other people also work as John Doe does but 90% or more do not.   Outlook is using the offline global address book and i have checked their contact cards in that list and cannot find any differences.  I thought it might be a property of the address list used but that doesn't seem to be the case. I also cannot 'force' this format as Outlook replaces the full address with the display name in 90% of the cases But not for John Doe and a few others where it shows the Display Name and the full email address inside the parentheses.  I also have autofill turned on and this is the way autofill adds the address for these people.

Is there any setting located somewhere in Outlook that I can use to get the From and To: fields to always display both the display name as well as the actual email address  for all email such as   To: John Doe ([email protected])?   Instead of only showing the display name of just To: John Doe

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Robots.txt always seemed to do the job but we have recently found that it no longer seems to work as well as it used to.  Various documents and other items were recently found in a Google web cache that in theory should not have been there.  I just wondered if there was any better way to prevent having every file in every site posted somewhere in a web cache?  Is robots.txt still the only and best thing to use for an apache website?  if possible I would like for Google to forget the whole domain exists as it contains private files that are in a preliminary stage. No need to for anyone to ever be able to find them through a web search

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This would need to work on Windows 10 x64 and doesn't need to provide encryption.  This is a case where I need a simple way to put 12 to 15 documents in a folder and lock it such that it would ask for a password to access the files. 

In searching, I have located a number of these ranging from "Folder Locker" to a few that appear to not even be around anymore.  Some have many additional features included but in this case, that would be worse rather than better.  As long as I can Trust the Lock

Now the conditions:   I need it to be something where I could lock the folders on my system and post them for download on a website by a group of people.  The group would be downloading several normal folders of files as well but a few of them would be marked as needing a password and only a few of the group would know that password.   

Some of the "Folder Lock" software I have found appears to be limited to locking folders only on my system which would not help.  Nor do I want to hide the folder names, they need to be visible to all but just locked t those without the password.  I need the group to be able to download all the folders but certain folders need to be locked with a password.  But not necessarily encrypted as I have had problems in the past with encrypted files not working properly if they are not still located on the system where they were originally encrypted.

This also has to be easy to use because the people who access them are not tech geniuses.  A simple "enter the password" and once they enter the correct one, it should unlock and allow that user to open all the documents inside without further ado. As easy as possible.  Like an electronic version of a safety deposit box. The folder would contain a mixed bag of document types, some pdf, some Word, etc.  And no none wants to lock the files one at a time.

The last condition is that it needs to be a program I can run on my system to Lock the folder and the recipient should have no problem opening it on theirs once they download it preferably without needing to install anything at their end.

Some versions of 7-Zip might work if it can be made to create self-extracting archives that only require the correct password to be entered to access the contents.  I figure some form of a self-extracting archive is going to be my best bet but there might be other software out there that would work better. 

I would appreciate any information from those who had maybe had the same need at one point and found a working solution.  Thanks

In closing, I hope that all the members of Donation Coders Forum and their Families and friends are doing Ok and staying well during these trying times.

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