Reinstate Metadata Cleaner
Privacy Guides Community [Unofficial]
February 8, 2026
I haven’t looked into the topic deeply enough but I hope there is[1] a way to have some CLI running on a given subset of drectories and cleaning any kind of metadata on file change.
Hence, if you do have a photo downloaded going to your Downloads directory, it is automatically processed by some CLI and stripped of everything.
Sounds like a basic tool for a NAS OS.
I could see some drawbacks to it too of course (for example loosing precious data for a souvenir photo) hence why should be selective only.
- probably is ↩︎
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