Author Archives: Phillip Burton

What can you expect from our cataloging programs?

There are four versions of Filecats: Filecats Standard and Filecats Explore are file catalogers, and Filecats Professional and Filecats Metadata also include the document properties. I want to extract… Filecats Standard Filecats Explore Filecats Professional Filecats Metadata File names yes yes yes yes Directory/path names yes yes yes yes Hyperlinks yes yes yes yes File sizes yes yes yes yes Created […]

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Metadata contained in actual Microsoft Excel files

Whilst it may be interesting to know in theory what metadata is available for use in Excel documents, the actual document properties used in real Excel spreadsheets might be different. To find this out, 1,113 Excel workbooks were downloaded at random (see methodology), and the metadata extractor Filecats Professional has been used to extract the metadata to see what document […]

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Practice Direction 31B, and document properties – introduction, common and MS metadata

Practice Direction 31B (2’53”) Practice Direction 31B relates to the disclosure of electronic documents in court cases in the United Kingdom, but there are similar directions around the world. Paragraph 31 states how the documents are to be disclosed. Let’s see how Filecats can help you with achieving this. “(1) Disclosure data should be set out in a single, continuous […]

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Catalog files for E-discovery

In England, the disclosure of electronic documents (e-disclosure) as part of a court case is governed by Practice Direction 31B. Clause 31 shows the structure of the catalog needed for your Electronically Stored Information (ESI): 31  Where a party provides another party with disclosure data in electronic form, the following provisions will apply unless the parties agree or the court directs […]

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Accessing metadata from multiple Microsoft Office documents

Introduction My previous article discussed the various different metadata fields that are available in Microsoft Office documents. This article will discuss ways of accessing these fields in multiple documents. It will start with looking at VBA, and then talk about an easier way. Using Visual Basic for Applications As shown in the VBA article, it is possible to read document […]

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