This guide will show you the steps to delete a file’s metadata on your Windows 11 PC. Before sharing a file with someone or uploading it over to the web, you would usually make sure to remove personal and highly confidential data from it. From the basic tweak of changing the file name to going to greater lengths of modifying the original contents, there are quite a few security measures that you could take. However, what many users tend to neglect is the ‘data about data’, or in other words, the file’s metadata.
When you share a file with someone, then he or she could easily extract some crucial information from that file using its metadata. these include the likes of the author’s name, last saved date and time, revision number, and other related data. So if you don’t want these data to be out in the open, then the best approach is to remove your personal information from a file’s metadata. And in this guide, we will show you how to do just that. Given here are the steps to delete a file’s metadata in Windows 11.
How to Delete a File Metadata in Windows 11
- To begin with, right-click on the file whose metadata you wish to delete and select Properties.
- Then go to the Details tab and click on Remove Properties and Personal Information.
- Now you could select either of the two options. If you choose “Create a copy with all possible properties removed”, then Windows will create a copy of the original file and then remove the metadata from that copied file.
- On the other hand, if you select “Remove the following properties from this file”, then you will have complete control over the type of metadata that you wish to remove and what all you want to keep.
- If you select the latter option, then checkmark all the data that you wish to remove from that file and click OK. That’s it.
These were the steps to delete a file’s metadata on your Windows 11 PC. If you have any queries concerning the aforementioned steps, do let us know in the comments. We will get back to you with a solution at the earliest.
