Support for Batch Processing, so you can apply the same metadata to hundreds of files at once.

Functionality right click on selected files and or directories allowing delete metadata from selected documents directly without having to open MetaClean Control.

The Trial version of MetaClean Command Line has the following Limitations.

When I ran 10 years of Gmail messages through MIT Media Labs Immersion email metadata visualization tool, the resulting image (shown above) predicted relationships with my frequent correspondents with uncanny accuracy.

Immersion scans only the From, To, Cc, and Timestamp fields of messages in Gmail, Yahoo Mail, or MSExchange.

A scan of my Gmail account indicated I have received more than 50,000 messages in the 10.1 years Ive used the service.

Immersion identified 189 collaborators, and it predicted how many new collaborators I would have this year, as well as the number of messages I would send and receive through the rest of 2014.

Metadata Cleaner How To View Header

MakeUseOf s Guy McDowell explains how to view header information in Gmail messages, and how to decipher the metadata that gets attached to your mail.

The eDiscovery Evangelist explains all the types of metadata that are included with your messages and includes a link to the metadata definition in the Internet standards document RFC 2822.

As The Guardians Guide to Metadata explains, theres not much you can do about most of the metadata associated with an email, apart from disabling location services on your phone.

However, you can remove metadata from the files you attach to emails.

Heres a guide to deleting metadata from Office files, PDFs, and images.

Strip the metadata from your files Microsoft offers the free Document Inspector for removing personal or sensitive information before you share an Office file.

The Microsoft Support site provides specific information on deleting metadata from Word 2013 and Word 2010; Excel 2013 and Excel 2010; PowerPoint 2013 and PowerPoint 2010; Word 2007, Excel 2007, and PowerPoint 2007; and Word 2003, Excel 2003, and PowerPoint 2003.

Likewise, Adobes Help site explains how to remove metadata from PDFs in Acrobat X Pro and Acrobat X Standard.

A thread on B4Print.coms forum provides step-by-step instructions for excising metadata, or hidden content, from PDFs using the Examine Document tool in Acrobat 9.

Windows Explorer (File Explorer in Windows 8.1) lets you view and delete metadata from a file via the Properties dialog box.

The quickest way is to click Properties Details Remove Properties and Personal Information Create a copy with all possible properties removed.

The Remove Properties dialog in Windows ExplorerFile Explorer lets you create a version of the file with all possible properties removed.

Hoffman recommends the free Metability QuickFix program for removing GPS data from multiple photos at once.

Another metadata-removal tool for Windows image files is the free JPEG PNG Stripper from Steel Bytes.

Metadata Cleaner Mac OS X Users

Mac OS X users can delete EXIF data from image files by using the free ImageOptim program, as described on OS X Daily.

Photography Life s Nasim Mansurov explains how to remove EXIF and XMP data from files in Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom.

Mansurovs tutorial includes a link to Phil Harveys free ExifTool.

Dont tag your location to your phones photos Facebook, Twitter, and other social sites and image-sharing services automatically hide the location information and other metadata attached to the images you upload to prevent viewers from downloading the information along with the photo.

However, youre still sharing the data with the service itself.

Maybe youre OK with that, and maybe youd prefer to prevent the services from knowing where you were when you took the photo.