I am trying to remove all the properties\personal information from a set of media files in a bunch of different folders. So far the only way I have found is by clicking into each folder, selecting all files and doing the process manually like this.
Does anyone know of any free apps, or scripts that can do this across multiple file locations?
Go to your Music Library. Click the dropdown labeled "Arrange By" at the upper right. Choose "arrange by song".
You will now have a listing of every song in your music library. Select all those you wish to remove the properties from; then right-click and choose properties. Go to the details tab and click "remove personal info". Voila!
Make sure to change your "view" setting back to "folder" when you're done, otherwise you'll have a hard time sorting through all your music.
You will need separate tools for different types of files, to gain the control you seek.
To batch remove image EXIF metadata, use Irfanview (and more here)
To batch remove MP3 metadata, use The GodFather. Although I'm not too sure why you'd want to remove your ID3 tags?
MP4's can contain anything from lyrics to album art, but I'm sure it won't contain any personal info, unless you put it in there specifically.
Update: To blank with TGF, scan the songs you want to clear, onthe Tag tab (green) check all the fields to blank (red) and click the Apply button, then click Update.
For JPEG images, my favourite tool is EXIFCleaner by Superutils.
ExifCleaner is a batch Windows utility that lets you to remove individual Exif tags or to strip Exif data entirely. This protects your privacy, helps you to hide unneeded or sometimes sensitive information -- about the image, photographer and location.
It's free for 30 days, but works like a charm even after the trial period ends.
You can probably do it just with Windows Explorer by running a search which produces all the files you want to scrub, selecting all and using the properties dialog as you have been doing.
An easy way to remove properties and personal information from multiple files in multiple formats across multiple folders in one go is to use a dedicated batch multi-format metadata scrubber.
A typical music or video manager will only allow to remove/edit selected properties in a one or two types of metadata. A good dedicated metadata remover, on the other hand, will allow to remove all properties in multiple metadata types in a thorough way. (There are at least 9 different metadata types that can be stored in WAV files, for example)
BatchPurifier is one such paid scrubber for Windows. It supports all sorts of formats, including documents, images, and the following media formats: MP3, MP4, 3GP, F4V, WAVE / BWF, AVI, AIFF, APE, Musepack, OptimFROG, WavPack, and TAK.
It has a graphical user interface that allows the user to select multiple files and folders to be scrubbed, select the metadata types to be removed, and select whether the user wishes to overwrite the original files with the new ones or to save the new ones in another folder.
This article has your answer :
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-remove-the-metadata-from-your-photos-windows-only/
