How to conveniently get rid of metadata?

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Hi forum!

I hope I am welcome here!

My favorite tool metadata cleaner got abandoned so I am looking for new tool

I am using PopOs Linux n for like a year now, but I am still looking for GUI since terminal for me is dark forest.

I am talking about this tool that abandoned:
https://gitlab.com/rmnvgr/metadata-cleaner/

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Hi @dpkg.me yes you’re welcome here.

Metadata Cleaner getting abandoned caught a lot of people, so you’re not alone. If you want something with a GUI, ExifCleaner is probably the closest replacement at the moment and works well on Pop!_OS. It focuses on doing one thing and staying out of the way, which is similar to what Metadata Cleaner used to be good at.

One other thing worth mentioning is that for common workflows you may not need a dedicated tool at all. LibreOffice can export PDFs without metadata if you disable it during export, and many image editors and viewers strip metadata automatically when you re export or have a toggle for it.

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There is a new fork.

See

https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/20718#note_274505

It is officially supported by Tails now, as I see.

New repo:

https://gitlab.com/metadatacleaner/metadatacleaner

P.S: Why I cannot include links?

Update:

Found “native” alternatives:

For Cinnamon:

https://github.com/jvoisin/mat2/tree/master/nemo

For KDE:

https://github.com/jvoisin/mat2/tree/master/dolphin

But i would replace zenity with native notification system (i prefer native tools over too much installations):

Like this:

Exec=sh -c 'mat2 %F && notify-send "Metadata successfully cleaned." "Cleaning Complete" || notify-send "An error occurred during cleaning." "Cleaning Failed"'
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