How to use NTFS_Diz?

[hamb20]

In theory, it would be fantastic to be able to even find file comments by Everything 1.5; I currently use Everything 1.4 but would happily switch to 1.5 (and to buy Total Commander) if I was able to create such comments, and to display them in TC, before attacking the problem how to find them in Everything.

(The Total Commander forum has been saying, "Temporarily out of service" for days now, unfortunately, so please forgive me to bother you here with this.)

I have been able to install NTFS_Diz in TC, with its default column "Comment" in TC's default view, so I see that column in TC now, but it remains empty:

a) I do not find any new menu entry or other command for "Add/Edit Comment" in TC, and neither any such command by right-clicking, or double-clicking in that new "Comment" column in TC, but in the dialog for the column creation, I read:
[=ntfs_diz.Comment]

b) I would also want to use AutoHotkey for creating such file comments; the general syntax for ADS in AutoHotkey being:

fileappend, my comment text, my file name.txt:$DATA (for the NTFS generic ADS, or more generally:)
fileappend, my comment text, my file name with full path.suffix:AnyADSStreamHere

So I have tried, in AutoHotkey:

fileappend, something, d:\try.txt:[=ntfs_diz.Comment]
fileappend, something, d:\try.txt:[ntfs_diz.Comment]
fileappend, something, d:\try.txt:=ntfs_diz.Comment
fileappend, something, d:\try.txt:ntfs_diz.Comment
fileappend, something, d:\try.txt:$[=ntfs_diz.Comment]
fileappend, something, d:\try.txt:$[ntfs_diz.Comment]
fileappend, something, d:\try.txt:$=ntfs_diz.Comment
fileappend, something, d:\try.txt:$ntfs_diz.Comment

but none of those commands will create some ntfs_diz comment, or at least it will not show up in TC's new Comment column.

Some other file managers do use such ADS file comments, but every one of them in some proprietary, binary format, not be readable in any one of the others, or then writeable or readable by AutoHotkey, and obviously not searchable by Everything: xplorer2, Xyplorer, Directory Opus, so getting these NTFS_Diz comments to work in TC, and possibly also in AutoHotkey, would be absolutely fantastic indeed, given their searchability in Everything!

[void]

I'm unsure about TC, but for Everything...

Please try property_alternate_data_stream_ansi for ntfs_diz support.

For example:

• In Everything 1.5, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the Advanced tab on the left.
• To the right of Show settings containing, search for:
  alter
• Select: property_alternate_data_stream_ansi
• Set the value to:
  
  Custom Property 0=My Comment
• Click OK.
• Restart Everything (File -> Exit)

where My Comment is your ntfs_diz comment stream name.

Use Custom Property 0 in Everything to access your ntfs_diz comment.

[horst.epp]

Here my TC NTFS_diz.ini

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[Options]
KeepTime=1

[Streams]
0=MyComment
1=MyTag

This is the Everything definition of MyTag and MyComment

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property_alternate_data_stream_wchar=
property_alternate_data_stream_ansi=custom property 0=MyComment;custom property 1=MyTag
property_alternate_data_stream_utf8=
custom_property_0=MyComment
custom_property_1=MyTag

I let index Everything MyTag and MyComment
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Windows 11 Home Version 24H2 (OS Build 26100.5074)
Everything 1.5.0.1396a (x64), Everything Toolbar 2.0.4
Total Commander 11.56 x64 / x86