Hey folks,I am trying to access the Map Document properties through the arcpy.mapping.MapDocuments module. My issue is, I lose the original information in the fields in the Map Document properties window (File --> Map Document properties...) I am trying to read and write the "Author" of the map. I have set a script to loop through a series of mxd's, make some changes and then SaveACopy to a 9.3 version. Everytime it saves the copy, I lose all the Map Document Properties (ie Author, Title, Summary, etc) In the saved document, those fields turn blank.I have attempted to try to write to those fields to populate the information I want, but I'm at a wall. When the script opens the mxd's through the loop, I set it to print the mxd.author. That works fine. It prints the authors name, but when I open the mxd after the script has finished, this field is blank. I'm not sure if it gets lost when I use the "SaveACopy" method. Any suggestions?
# Import arcpy module
import arcpy
import os
import glob
folderPath = r"\\Chip\FolderRedirections\John.Doe\Desktop\Test"
for filename in glob.glob(os.path.join(folderPath, "*.mxd")):
print "Editing", filename
mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument(filename)
# This print statement works. I get the return value of mxd.author
print mxd.author
mxd.saveACopy(filename + "_93.mxd", '9.3')
del mxd
#After I SaveACopy, I lose the "author" properties information in the new mxd
