File Info Professional App Reviews

Hey thanks for grabbing control of obvious file associations. Wow are you seriously going to open all my MP4 files now, without any way to play them?

folks seem to dislike this app. So far however, I think it does the job!

The app changes your file associations to open using it instead of apps you exepected to open, especially with multimedia files. I ended up just deleting the app because it wasn’t worth the hassle.

Now that I have it, how do I get rid of it. Can’t do a thing now.

It does what it is advertised to do, BUT… it also takes control of almost all files by default. It default associates itself to almost every file type. Very malicious behavior. I had a bunch of custom file associations, as well as default associations, before I installed this. Now all my Xcode files open in, half of all my video files open in it, including MP4’s, all of my Windows files types open in it. It isn’t worth the aggrivation. On top of which, every time it opens, it shows an ad for this publishers other apps. I use their memory monitor app as well, and that thing has turned into an ad also. About to uninstall both that app and this one. Well, I am uninstalling this one regardless.

You can open any data file via a right click open with… “File Info Professional” and it will show a window in the app with (you can see the screenshot provided): - The File’s Size, Creation and Modification Dates, owning user name and group name, this is the same as you would get with Finder’s file info. - Four checksums: SHA1, SHA256, MD2, MD5. These are what I needed most as I got tired of using md5sum and sha256sum. However MD2 seems to spin forever on something like a 4.2GB iso file. Well okay how about it spins for 8 minutes (while I wrote this). - A HEX Dump view with lines of offset, 16 HEX pairs, and 16 ASCII representations of those (with . for non-visible characters or >127 || >= 0x80 || <32 || <0x20) This HEX Dump view is interesting, it can be scrolled with the scroll wheel or swipe action, paged down and up, responds to home and end… you can click any line to select the whole line, drag over lines to select multiples, command click to select multiple discrete lines, shift click to expand or contract the last selection to contiguous lines. The arrow keys move diselect all and highlight the row above or below the last selected row. These keys also modify the other movement keys or the mouse actions. I suppose this is a built in NS view put to good use, but it’s much appreciated. Selections can be copied out. You cannot paste in nor modify the file. The only downsides are: - The open with action will not be an option for folders or apps; however the service to open this in File Info Professional is always available, and using that on a folder or app will open the program but confusingly do nothing more and not show anything, not even a little explanation that folders and apps (which are kind of folders…) are not supported. - No highlight (on mouse over maybe) of the HEX pair’s associated ASCII within a row (if you’re having trouble counting with your eyes). - A first use “more apps by us, follow us on twitter etc” spash screen. (hey it’s free, and unobtrusive so far) - A request to rate/review this app if you liked it, or contact support if you didn’t after the first closed window. - It could probably be more compact than 3mb without those… but then again, that’s considered small these days. The utility and focused featureset outwieghs these minor detractions. Significantly: I have not yet experienced it associating itself with a file type I didn’t expect it to. It’s Info.plist in the app bundle is some 87,176 lines long of mostly viewable document type extensions like r00 through r99 or an[a-z0-9]. Below is a sample copied out of a HEX dump view of a pdf, copying the first, second and seventh lines in one discrete selection. 00000 25 50 44 46 2D 31 2E 33 0A 25 C4 E5 F2 E5 EB A7 %PDF-1.3.%...... 00010 F3 A0 D0 C4 C6 0A 36 20 30 20 6F 62 6A 0A 3C 3C ......6 0 obj.<< 00060 E8 8B CA DA 6B E6 09 04 9A 14 69 24 44 01 4D 2D ....k.....i$D.M-

worked great for me the first time I used it. I’m happy with this product.

Ok, I opened up a file that I am SUPPOSED to be able to write in, and it gives me some weird page that just shows me it. I don’t even know how to delete this, so can anyone help me?

Worked as advertised.

It doenst help! Now is reading everything I open and doenst let me open anything! is impossible to find how to unistall it! I am very very unhappy!

File Info Professional does what I need to do. I needed an easy way to view the checksum of a file, and it lets me do that with ease. The ability to see the raw hex may come in handy as well. If you on this page, likey by searching for “md5 checksum” like I did, this program will do the job just fine.

I’ve tried it on a couple of files so far and it seems to do the job just fine. I saw that many were complaining of it changing file associations. I have not noticed any of this yet, but am going to keep my eyes open.

Very nice program

Doesnt even acknowledge meta data, shows up as the default open application at inappropriate times and bombards the user with ads for more apps.

How do you delete this app

Its good and useful but not very friendly interface and can be made better.

need I say more?

It took over as a default app for iMovie. Would not let me force quit. Would not let me restart my computer. Had to shut down manually, than go into my hardrive to delete it from there. Pretty much malware to me.

If I type something qulickly in Spotlight, this App may be opened by mistake; I don’t know why this useless App trying to open all the types of files in my Mac. The bigest problem is this App may has a bug that will not let itself quit automatically. Not only once, when the App opened by mistake through Spotlight, I right-clicked and chose Force Quit; however, the App was not able to quit, it stucked and remain on my Docker. I was neither able to Force Quit the App(no respond), nor finding it in the Activity Monitor(I can’t find the same name); finally I have to long press the power button and reset my Mac. I only use this App once, right after I downloaded it; so it’s totally useless.

How do you delete this Thing I don’t even want to open it.