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 ...

Content indexing works well for finding files that contain text, but it's no help when searching for non-text data. Brien's workaround is to take advantage of Windows 10's file metadata feature. As ...

Do you wish you could rename all your files in a folder in a batch without having to go through each of them manually? It is possible, and you don’t even have to pay for it. File Renamer software is a ...

Media management, storage systems and video servers all employ varying degrees of metadata to keep track of the assets stored on their systems. Metadata is essential to the success of file-based ...