File Formation

People like to store all sort of files on their computers, but it’s always a good idea to organize them in various folders. One application that could help you with just that is File Formation.

It’s a neat software solution that allows you to organize pictures, movies, audio files and other types of files. You can export them using multiple tools.

Sleek and fluent graphical interface

The application installs quickly and it sports a really intuitive and clean graphical interface with multiple tools at hand. It has a toolbar with quick access to multiple sections and you can pick one of the many possible view styles.

It comes with multiple instructions and tips that you could use in order to get accustomed to the application.

Organize your files easily

It comes with a wizard that helps you organize files in a faster way. First, you will need to pick one category of files, choose from images, videos, audio files or others. Next, you need to browser for a folder to organize, find files manually, paste from clipboard or drop items onto the main window.

You can organize files by last access time, creation date, name, length, types, folders or attributes. It also allows you to organize them by camera make, model, exposure time, focal length, orientation, width and more. It allows you to organize videos and audio files by various parameters.

Export files easily

All files are displayed in thumbnails, which makes it easier to preview them. You can also view files by icons, list or even details. You can export files to another folder to a computer or cut and copy them to anywhere on your computer. It comes with multiple filtering options and you can preview images in a slideshow.

All in all, File Formation is a really nice and lightweight software solution for organizing various files on your computer, previewing pictures in a slideshow and exporting them to other folders on your system.

DROID is a software tool developed by The National Archives to perform automated batch identification of file formats. Developed by our Digital Preservation department as part of its broader digital preservation activities, DROID is designed to meet the fundamental requirement of any digital repository to be able to identify the precise format of all stored digital objects, and to link that identification to a central registry of technical information about that format and its dependencies.

DROID uses internal signatures to identify and report the specific file format and version of digital files. These signatures are stored in an XML signature file, generated from information recorded in the PRONOM technical registry. New and updated signatures are regularly added to PRONOM, and DROID can be configured to automatically download updated signature files.