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tmillic

#! CrunchBanger

From: Fayetteville, Arkansas

Registered: 2011-04-25

Posts: 203

metadata viewers

Is anyone aware of a utility that allows the user to view a file's metadata?
I've installed tracker-extract from the repos, but it's not showing anything. Maybe most files don't have metadata to indicate what kind of files they are?

pvsage

Internal Affairs

From: North Carolina

Registered: 2009-10-18

Posts: 9,017

Re: metadata viewers

"Metadata" is an inherently ambiguous term; after all, IS META.   What kind of files' metadata are you interested in in particular?

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tmillic

#! CrunchBanger

From: Fayetteville, Arkansas

Registered: 2011-04-25

Posts: 203

Re: metadata viewers

After using photorec to recover a bunch of stuff from a drive that went bad (I had to replace the PCB to do this much), I find that there are a lot of binary files of unknown type. It would be nice if I could tell which ones were cad or 3ds files. It's not a big deal, but it would be nice.