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See the privacy risk before sharing
Review a real batch containing GPS, camera, author, PDF, and media metadata; each file is ranked by risk and the selected findings explain what could be exposed.
Metadata ReviewFile Tools
Find, remove, and verify hidden metadata before files leave your Mac.
Metadata Review is a privacy audit, not a blind strip command. It identifies GPS, camera, author, title, creator, and media-container risks; ranks each file; explains what may remain; writes cleaned copies without replacing the sources; and audits supported outputs again so you can see the risk move from Before to After.
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What it does
Audit metadata risk, write cleaned copies, and verify the result across images, PDFs, audio, and video.
Detect GPS location, EXIF camera data, TIFF device fields, PDF document info, and media-container tags.
Rank files as clean, low, medium, or high risk before any output is written.
Explain each finding and surface honest limitations such as PDF XMP or codec-private media data.
Strip image metadata without recompressing the pixels.
Clear standard PDF document info and stream-copy media while removing standard tags and chapters.
Re-audit supported cleaned copies and show the Before and After risk result.
Audit, clean, verify
Know what a file reveals before you share it.
Inspect concrete GPS, camera, document, and media findings, write clean copies, then verify that the hidden data is actually gone.
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Audit document context as carefully as photo location
Select the PDF in the same review queue to expose author, title, creator, producer, and keyword risks, with honest disclosure of metadata that may remain.
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Know exactly what each file type loses
Review how Foldout handles images, PDFs, audio, and video before cleanup, including lossless image handling and stream-copy media processing.
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Verify the cleaned copy, not just the action
After cleaning, Foldout audits the new file again and presents the before/after risk result with Quick Look and Reveal actions while the source remains unchanged.
Why it belongs
Why Metadata Review earns a place in the toolbox.
The practical details that make this job faster, clearer, or safer than doing it by hand.
A real privacy audit
Each source receives a risk level and concrete findings such as location, camera details, authorship, document context, or media-container tags.
Different files are cleaned honestly
Images use lossless metadata removal, PDFs clear document info, and audio or video use stream-copy to remove standard tags without a full re-encode.
Limitations stay visible
Foldout calls out where embedded PDF XMP or codec-private media atoms may remain instead of claiming more than it can verify.
The cleaned copy is checked again
Supported outputs are re-audited and summarized as Before and After, with Quick Look and Reveal available beside the result.
How to use it
From opening the tool to saving the result.
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Add images, PDFs, audio, or video.
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Review the risk level and detected findings for each file.
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Choose sibling copies or a separate destination folder.
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Clean the selected files and review the verified Before and After result.
Questions
Before you try Metadata Review
Does Metadata Review upload the files?
No. Inspection, cleaning, and supported verification run locally on your Mac.
Does image cleaning recompress the picture?
No. Foldout uses a lossless metadata-copy path that preserves the encoded image while excluding supported metadata blocks.
What does it remove from PDFs?
It clears standard document information such as author, creator, producer, title, subject, and keywords. Embedded XMP may remain and is disclosed in the interface.
Can it verify that metadata was removed?
Yes for supported image and PDF findings. Media cleaning reports limited verification because codec-private atoms may remain.
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