File Viewer is a file and folder viewing and analysis tool.

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File Viewer is a file and folder viewing and analysis application. It's basically a bigger, badder version of Apple's built-in Get Info tool.

Drag and drop a file into the app and it provides many generic file statistics, as well as additional information for specific supported filetypes and what's basically an internal Quick Look preview, with a text search function and hexadecimal viewer. There are additional tools for viewing images, and there is a FileInfo.com lookup for unfamiliar file extensions (as well as familiar extensions, but this won't tell you anything you don't already know about those).

The application serves purely as a viewer; it cannot change any of the statistics it provides. To some extent this makes it less powerful than standard Get Info, which provides access to various alterable attributes.

Sam's Protip: FileInfo.com calls itself "the central file extensions registry", but there is nothing official that sets this apart from other quality file extension lookup websites.

Pros

  • Provides detailed information on supported media types
  • Provides playback capability for audio and video

Cons

  • Cannot change any attributes of the selected file
  • Lacks some of the statistics provided by the Finder's Get Info tool
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Specifications
License type:
Freeware
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