View/Manipulate the Comments property of a file?

When you view a directory in windows expolorer, or view the properties of a file, one of the properties is called "Comments". If you right click on a file, you can modify the value for this property.
Is there a way that I can manipulate this property using CFFILE?
I am still on CF8 if that makes a difference.

It is kind of convoluted, but I want my end users to upload documents into a directory. That same directory needs to be indexed by another server on the network, to present the list of files in that directory to end users of THAT system. That system is ancient, and nobody wants to put forth the effort to upgrade it to the 21st century. As a result it shows the files in the directory in the order indicated by the DateLastModified property, but that is not necessarilly the date of the document itself. It is the date that the document was UPLOADED using my system. I was hoping to be able to populate the Comments property at the time of the upload, so this other system can read that field and present the documents in descending order that way.
I know this explanation is going to bring up a bunch of "what ifs" but suffice to say they are NOT going to change their system to a database approach regardless of how logical we make it sound. Sorting on the Comments field was my last stab at a compromise.

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2) It would be equally helpful if there was something that would take the name of the picture file and spotlight comment, copy and paste it to a movie file's comments with the same name but obviously has different extention. For an example
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4) I feel like this would make things more difficult, but if not I can put all of the .m4v files in itunes so instead of pasting all the comments back into a file in finder paste them in a description in itunes
5) At the very least a code that I can run one by one for every file that will paste the comments into the same document
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Clendenen02 wrote:
2) It would be equally helpful if there was something that would take the name of the picture file and spotlight comment, copy and paste it to a movie file's comments with the same name but obviously has different extention. For an example
In a Pictures folder
Name: Dark Knight, The.jpeg       Comment: (2008) Genre: Action...             <- copy comment
In a Movie Folder
Name: Dark Knight, The.m4v       Comment:                                               <- paste
and do this for all 700 files
This Bash script will do it.
Edit "PicDir" and "MovDir" to the location of your Folders
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#!/bin/bash
PicDir=$HOME/Desktop/Pictures
MovDir=$HOME/Desktop/Movies
for f in $PicDir/*
do
     if [ ! -d "$f" -a "${f##*.}" == "jpeg" ]; then
          comment=$(mdls -raw -name kMDItemFinderComment "$f")
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using System.Collections.Generic;
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XmlTextWriter textWriter)
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textWriter.WriteStartElement(XmlNodeTag);
textWriter.WriteAttributeString(XmlNodeTextAtt,
node.Text);
textWriter.WriteAttributeString(
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textWriter.WriteAttributeString(XmlNodeTagAtt,
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if (node.Nodes.Count > 0)
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textWriter.WriteEndElement();
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The problem is that now if i will run the program the Tag property is null. I must get the ftp content from the server each time.
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Your case related to Winform Data Controls, So i will move your thread to Windows Forms> Windows
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