Meta-data

[Ray Parrish]

Rick wrote:
> In Ubuntu is there a add-on to show all meta-data of ANY File, when
> moving a mouse over the file.
>
> I know in Kubuntu, you can do this, but not using Kubuntu anymore,
> so thought I would ask the group.
>
> Regards-
> Rick
>   
Hello,

I just found one with a search in Synaptic package Manager. It's package 
name is doodle-dog, and you will alo need it's companion doodled. Here 
is it's description.

> Desktop Search Engine (debug)
> It searches your hard drive for files using pattern matching on 
> meta-data. It
> extracts file-format specific meta-data using libextractor and builds 
> a suffix
> tree to index the files. The index can then be searched rapidly. It is 
> similar
> to locate, but can take advantage of information such as ID3 tags. It is
> possible to do full-text indexing using the appropriate libextractor 
> plugins.
> It also supports using FAM to keep the database up-to-date.

There may be others, this is just the first one I found.

Lter, Ray Parrish


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