Spotlight is Apple's smart search indexer for macOS. Here's how to use its metadata utilities to get more information about your documents.

All the files you create contain information you may not know you're sharing. If this makes you feel uncomfortable, here's how to remove it.

Scroll down to the bottom and hit the "Remove All Metadata" button to remove all metadata or “Remove Exif” to remove just the ...

Reviews Review: Document Metadata Cleaner strips personally identifiable metadata from your files By Mark O'Neill Feb 11, 2013 12:59 pm PST ...

Modern file formats have provisions to annotate the contents of the file with descriptive information. This development is driven by the need to find a better way to organize data than merely by using ...

Tagit lets you add metadata tags to files for easy searching, either through Tagit itself or other apps that are compatible with the OpenMeta tagging standard.

This is driving me crazy. I have a workflow where I combine many (30+) m4a files into one large one and adding metadata to the file, including artwork. This is how I have done it so far: Combine ...

Nifty File Lists allows you to save file lists in Microsoft Excel, Apple Numbers and Pages-friendly CSV (Comma-Separated Values), TSV (Tab-Separated Values), and even HTML formats.