Introduction :
MacMetaShow is a droplet that allows Mac OS X users to view the EXIF data blocks of image files. It is updated to run on 64 bit Catalina.

If you want to modify the keywords, title and owner records of your meta data, then take a look at the sister program MacMetaMod.

It is driven by Phil Harvey's excellent ExifTool, and uses Sveinbjorn Thordarson's Platypus.
These are protected by the GNU General Public License, which means this droplet is too.

System requirements :
Mac OS X v10.15 or later. Still going strong on Moneterey, at least on an M1 Studio.

Download :
The droplet is a single Mac OS X application bundle, which you can download as a compressed tar archive from the bottom of this page.
Simply download to your desktop and double-click on the tar file to get your droplet, which you can then move anywhere you want.

Usage :
Drag a file on to the application.

Notes :

• You can drop any type of file, but only valid image files will have meta data in them.
• Valid image formats include JPEG, GIF, NEF, CRW, amongst many others (see ExifTool)
• By default all recognised tags are written out, but if you would really like to see only the most interesting you can change the behaviour of the program by removing the file 'showall' from the /Contents/Resources directory".

Version history :

v2.0 25-Mar-20
64 bit support.

v1.3 7-Feb-07
Added ACRs RawFileName tag to short output list.

v1.2 1-Feb-07
If a directory or multiple files are dropped, author, title, and keyword records are now shown for each file.
Bug fixed that caused crash when filename included spaces.

v1.1 15-Jan-07
Added ability to rename executable to MacMetaShow-all for more complete listing.

v1.0 14-Dec-06

Download latest MacMetaShow v2.0 (25-Mar-20, 3MB)

Mark Harris

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