Installing & first launch
Getting EveryMark onto your machine and understanding what you're looking at when it opens.
Installing
- Download the installer for your platform —
.exeon Windows,.dmgon macOS, or.AppImageon Linux. - Run it and follow the prompts. On macOS, drag EveryMark into your Applications folder.
- Launch it from your applications menu, Start menu, or Launchpad.
No separate ExifTool install
ExifTool ships inside the application. There is nothing to install alongside it, nothing to add to your PATH, and no configuration file to write.
The interface
EveryMark uses a three-panel layout. Every panel is resizable, and the left one collapses entirely when you want more room.
- Left — folder browser. Navigate your drive, with recent folders and favourites. Collapsible.
- Middle — file view. Your loaded files, as a thumbnail grid or a sortable detail list. This is where you select.
- Right — metadata viewer and editor. Everything the selected file (or files) claims about itself, grouped into sections, editable in place.
Your first folder
- Click Add Folder in the toolbar and pick a folder — every supported file beneath it loads, at any depth. A progress indicator shows how far along it is, and you can abort a load that's pulling in more than you meant.
- Click a file in the middle panel. Its metadata appears on the right, grouped into Basic Info, Camera, Dates, Location, Audio, and Advanced.
- Hover a field. If a pencil appears, that field is editable — click it to edit in place.
- Change something. The field turns highlighted and the toolbar shows a pending-change count. Nothing has been written yet.
- Press Ctrl+S (Cmd+S on macOS) to save, or click Discard to throw the change away.
Suggested first move
Point it at a copy of a folder rather than the original, at least the first time. Not because saving is unsafe — originals are backed up before every write — but because it's the right habit with any tool that rewrites your files, and it lets you compare before and after freely.
Settings worth setting now
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Backup location | Where originals are copied before a write. Defaults to a folder in your user data directory; point it at a drive with room. |
| Automatic backup | On by default. Leave it on unless you have a versioned filesystem or your own snapshot routine. |
| Theme | Light, dark, or follow the system. Remembered between launches. |