Release FileDentify 1.1 · OnjLouis/FileDentify

FileDentify 1.1 is a major update focused on richer file reports, accessible review, and better Windows integration.

Highlights

Added PDF metadata reporting for title, author, creator, producer, creation date, modification date, and XMP metadata where present. Closes issue #1.
Added multimedia metadata reporting for common audio files, including FLAC duration and Vorbis comments, MP3 ID3v2 tags, MP3 bitrate/sample-rate duration estimates, and concise ffprobe summaries when ffprobe is available. Closes issue #2.
Updated embedded Unix file/libmagic to MSYS2 MinGW-w64 file/libmagic 5.48.
Added combined text and HTML reports, including a multi-file overview with counts, total size, likely types, extensions, largest files, common bytes, common readable strings, signature-match counts, and attention files.
Added View HTML report from the main screen for quick browser review.

Added broad format-specific reporting for DMG, RAR, UFS sample libraries, Native Instruments/Kontakt/NKS/Reaktor/Battery/FM8/Absynth/Massive/Maschine/Kontour files, Steinberg Cubase/Nuendo/VST files, old phone tones, game and ROM files, virtual disks, ISO images, RIFF/IFF, MIDI, SQLite, property lists, fonts, compressed streams, ZIP-compatible containers, Clipman files, and more.
Added built-in Windows shortcut and Internet Shortcut analysis for .lnk and .url files.
Added a Readable text section that shows extracted strings without byte offsets, while keeping offset-based detail in Printable strings.
Improved summaries so FileDentify-specific identifications are surfaced before longer libmagic descriptions.

Added an F1 HTML manual with keyboard shortcut tables, command-line options, credits, changelog, and accessibility notes.
Added an F4 Advanced file viewer with readable text, hex, binary, and octal modes, incremental loading, load-all, F3 search, save loaded output, and standard read-only copy/select-all behavior.
Added fd.com terminal mode for PowerShell and Windows Terminal workflows.
Added Ctrl+A support in read-only edit fields, scoped Ctrl+C behavior, and Ctrl+Shift+Left/Right tree collapse/expand shortcuts.
Added an Edit menu, report-tree context menu, main-screen Help button, Contact/Donate/Other software links, and improved third-party notices with a selectable notice list.

Added recursive folder input support in the GUI, Send To workflow, and command-line folder reports.
Added desktop shortcut install/uninstall support.
Added --close, -u/--update, --html-report, --folder-report, and advanced viewer command-line output switches.
Update checks default to startup on new installs, and release ZIP validation now requires fd.com beside FileDentify.exe.

The portable ZIP contains: