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can anyone please tell me how to edit the summary of a file(e.g *.txt,*.docs,*.pdf,*.avi.....etc) through by java programming.

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What do you mean "the summary of a file"?

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What do you mean "the summary of a file"?

file summary is shown in picture............
actually i want to edit that using java programming..........
sir is it possible to do that

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You need to be on the .latest version of Java (Java 7, or version 1.7) then you can use the "new I/O" classes to access that kind of metadata.
It's all very new, so there's not a lot of examples on the web yet, but here's a good place to start:
http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/io/fileAttr.html

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You need to be on the .latest version of Java (Java 7, or version 1.7) then you can use the "new I/O" classes to access that kind of metadata.
It's all very new, so there's not a lot of examples on the web yet, but here's a good place to start:
http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/io/fileAttr.html

thanks sir....

one mre thing......

is it possible to hide something in the summary of a file such that the hidden datas written within the summary should not be seen............

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Sorry, I don't know.

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