Managing files and data can often feel like an uphill battle, especially when dealing with ever-growing repositories of documents, spreadsheets, and other digital assets. If you’ve ever found yourself ...

Jeff Werner is a software engineer and has been writing this column since 2007. Question: I’m at my wits’ end! No search strategy has yielded success. I have 20 files that comprise an audiobook. In ...

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 ...