[DFIR] Metadata, Types, How to access?

Metadata is the data about the data. Every files has some metadata and it describe what the file is (minus the content). For example,  an image file, its metadata might contain information such as when the image is created, by whom, when is it modified, who can access etc, but it wont be able to tell what is in that image. 

There are different types of metadata. Lets go through the main types.

1) System Metadata
This metadata is created and used by the Operating system. Though OS uses it for variou...