Display who created a file in explorer

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I would like a column for 'who created' a document to be visible in windows explorer.

Typically I would achieve this by right clicking on the column titles, (selecting "more") and selecting "Authors" to display the author of the file. However unlike Word and Excel documents which save author info automatically (on our system, at least), Solidworks files do not. If I look in the file properties, there is no useful info to be gleaned:Example file properties

There is one place where the information appears to be availible though; if I select "Security", I can see the name of the file creator listed 2nd from the top in the "Group or user names" field. Is there any way I can access this information to display it/ filter by it in Windows explorer? Security image

PS Sorry for the gratuitous blurring

Greedo

Posted 2017-06-12T14:56:23.870

Reputation: 365

2You can add the Owner column by right clicking and adding the column. – Ramhound – 2017-06-12T15:02:25.810

@Ramhound That'll do it, I had assumed the document Properties window would be exaustive, and if any properties were missing in that then it meant they didn't exist. Clearly that isn't true, so is there a way to view all of a file's properties at the same time (such as Owner), so that I don't make this mistake again? Anyway, post so I can accept? – Greedo – 2017-06-12T15:06:21.993

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Is there a way to view all of a file's properties (such as Owner) to the explorer window?

Just add the desired column to your explorer window.

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If the desired property isn't already listed just click More...

Ramhound

Posted 2017-06-12T14:56:23.870

Reputation: 28 517

Actually, I meant to have them all in one place. Exactly like the Right Click->Properties->Details window, except with all of the document properties, not just a select few. – Greedo – 2017-06-12T15:18:30.443

1You won't be able to display all the document properties. What properties can be displayed depends on numerous factors, in a default configuration of Windows, some of the date properties cannot be displayed. Additionally, most of the properties you can display, are based on what applications are installed on your system. – Ramhound – 2017-06-12T15:20:14.547

Well maybe not all the properties, just the non-empty ones. There may be some programattic way, I can think of how to do it with a VBScript but was hoping for something built-in. I'll possibly ask this as a separate question as I don't think this conversation belongs here, unless you can think of a way of displaying them natively? – Greedo – 2017-06-12T15:24:39.917

What you want won't be possible with VBScript. If my answer does not actually answer the question you shouldn't accept it. Custom folder field for windows 7

– Ramhound – 2017-06-12T15:29:40.363

It answers it perfectly, I was just interested to know more, but can see that it was not within the question scope, so I have asked it elsewhere.

– Greedo – 2017-06-12T15:51:16.447

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