Store metadata outside of file: Any standard approach on modern Windows?
问题 My C# app syncs files from a remote document management system to a filesystem. The document management system has metadata (date of last audit, secrecy, author...) which is associated with each file but not stored WITHIN each file. The files can be anything (bmp, xwd, pdf, unknown binary) I want to make these metadata visible on the local Windows filesystem. But I can't store metadata WITHIN each file. For instance, changing the secrecy of a file must NOT modify the checksum of the file.