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MilesAhead:
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Comment Explorer allows you to add and view Comments for files in Explorer.
It's written as a Hotkey Tray App to avoid Shell Extension Hell.  Should work
on Windows XP and later both 32 and 64 bit.

It requires Scripting.Dictionary be available on the machine.
Up and Down Arrow Keys in Explorer Window will show the
Comment for the file in a ToolTip if it exists. If not, it will
show the file path of the selected file/folder.

To add a Comment, press Shift-F11.


See Readme.txt for usage particulars.
Source is included.  To compile use
AutoHotkey v1.1.22.02 or later.

MilesAhead:
Comment Explorer 1.2.0.0 Fixed hang on exit if started with no comment file. Added Check for Update and Show Readme functions.

tomos:

Looking forward to trying it out :Thmbsup:

MilesAhead:

Looking forward to trying it out :Thmbsup:
-tomos (August 25, 2011, 05:48 PM)
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Thanks. If you have 1.2.0.0 download again. I just posted 1.3.0.0. Added a crude Backup command to tray menu.  Just copies comment file to another in the folder.
It's a good reason to try out the Check for Updates menu command. :)

MilesAhead:
Comment Explorer 1.3.0.0 Added Backup Comments command to Tray Menu.

Note: copying the files to another machine is problematic if the drive letter changes. One thing that can help is if you can keep the same folder structure underneath the drive letter then you could just do text substitution in the comment file.

If you have a 32 bit system my TipOff utility is more comprehensive.  It has Copy With Comment shell extensions to copy files with comments to a different folder etc..  But it uses a comment data file with .tof extension in each folder to avoid the drive letter issue.

If you have download folders under C:\downloads or something similar, this should be fine just for associating a note with your download.

With TipOff your notes can be up to 4 KB in length instead of one input line.

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