Windows 10: View pdf metadata in windows file explorer

Hello!I am trying to get the file explorer to display author metadata for pdfs. Using exiftool.exe I can see that the author information is in the pdf metadata but when viewing file properties->details there is no author information. I can search for the author in file explorer without issues.Does windows file explorer have the ability to show author metadata for pdfs?A

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viewing metadata using File Explorer

I’m interested in viewing the metadata associated with photos including JPG files. During one period File Explorer had just the feature I wanted and I was using it. When you started in a pictures folder including my pictures, you could set the metadata you
wanted to view when using view->details tab and then as you explored the folders under pictures and my pictures folders, the selected metadata would be displayed. Great, however, later versions of File Explorer don’t seem to have this feature.

I would like to have this feature back; does it exist in another app for windows?

 

Pdf File View in Windows / File Explorer NOT

Hi,

After cleaning out the thumbnail cache, I went to restore and found an old enough restore point. The MS powers that be were on my side today as Restore actually worked this time (1st time on this machine).

Lo and behold I can now view pdf thumbnails in file explorer. Thank you for all your suggestions.

I did DL the tutorial list from the forum to help me in the future.

Now to work on the thumbnail generation of the vp3 files. I’ll tackle that one Monday.

Joanne in NH

 

Why can't I see PDF file metadata in Windows 10 file explorer?

I am not trying to ADD metadata. I want to DISPLAY the PDF Author metadata in Windows 10 File Explorer.

I have a Windows 7 machine that worked fine in this respect. I upgraded it to Windows 10. Still works fine at displaying PDF metadata.

I now have a new Windows 10 machine. Copied the same PDF files from the old Win7/10 machine into the documents directory of the new Win10 machine. (And, of course, I ran an index.) Can't see the Authors metadata either in the column display format or by
right clicking an individual file and going to Properties, because the "PDF Information" tab is missing. (Is that characteristic of Windows 10? Reduced utility?)

(Superuser points out that "Windows doesn't have native support of metadata for every filetype." But come on. PDFs??? And they can't work something out with Adobe? But I digress...)