Can I have properties for Windows' folders?

[Muse]

Files in Windows have properties, and at least some types of files have scores of them, but I don't see anything for folders.

I have a lot of information saved in around 125 folders, all under one folder. I have metadata for those folders saved in a database, including a field that categorizes each folder by an integer field called Region, from 0-7. I'd like to divvy up the folders by Region. I can do a drag and drop for each folder, but am hoping that I can add a property for each folder and then reorder the display of the 125 folders and just select a range (e.g. Region = 6).

Is there any way I can add properties to folders in this way?

Right now the only ways I can think of to accomplish this is to either copy/paste each folder into a subfolder specific to it's region or to change the name of each folder by prefixing it with the region, e.g. 2 <folder name>

 

[RampantAndroid]

There is no form of folder metadata I know of.

 

[ninaholic37]

Right now the only ways I can think of to accomplish this is to either copy/paste each folder into a subfolder specific to it's region or to change the name of each folder by prefixing it with the region, e.g. 2 <folder name>

That's how I arranged my mp3s when I was creating a 200 track album: 001 - songname.mp3, 002 - songname.mp3... 200 - songname.mp3. Simple but it sorts correctly. I guess just creating a playlist would have worked too though.

 

[Muse]

There is no form of folder metadata I know of.

Yeah, I wasn't optimistic. I did do a google search for a utility that would add metadata but came up with nothing.

I just went ahead and created subfolders with integer prefixes and selected all files appropriate to each folder and copied them into their appropriated folder. In this case it wasn't horribly tedious because there were only 125 folders. I wound up with two sets of the data, one with all together and the other split off into regions, but I have plenty of hard drive space, not a problem.

 

[Muse]

That's how I arranged my mp3s when I was creating a 200 track album: 001 - songname.mp3, 002 - songname.mp3... 200 - songname.mp3. Simple but it sorts correctly. I guess just creating a playlist would have worked too though.

I really have to work up a system for my MP3's, I have probably thousands. Most are tagged, some are not. I would like to include stuff like whether or not I've listened to it, how many times and when. A bit much for metadata, but I can do this in a database program.

Another data project of mine is to keep track of my movies. I have a couple of systems I need to integrate, shouldn't be tough.