On Windows I had that nice bar on the bottom with the exif entries that I can’t manage to make appear on Ubuntu (I’m on Lubuntu but I’ve tried Mate and Plasma 5.4 too). I’ve tried with exiftool: exiftool -Comment=’my comment’ <directory> but once I check with gThumb, under Comment > Description there’s nothing written. … Read more
I’m trying to use the exiftool to set the DPI on a set of images to 300 I’m using the following command: ./exiftool -jfif:Xresolution=300 -jfif:Yresolution=300 filename.jpg I’ve also tried: ./exiftool -Xresolution=300 -Yresolution=300 filename.jpg When I query the dpi using exiftool I get the correct value: Instead, when I query the file properties on Windows (right … Read more
The title pretty much says it all. I am trying to change the metadata for some FLAC files. I have tried editing via the properties menu and also via the details menu at the right. If I change the track number, windows sometimes accepts it. Other times, it freezes and crashes windows explorer. Unfortunately, the … Read more
I just want to remove all tags except a few (from jpg files). I would like to keep only the title,description and the tags. When i’m running the following command: exiftool -all= -tagsFromFile @ -Title -Caption -Keywords my description gets deleted. Can anyone help me out? BTW if I enter the description manually, it is … Read more
I have thousands of photos scattered across several subfolders (but all of them are under a single parent folder). Most of those photos have values in their “Copyright” field, and that value differs from photo to photo. Firstly, what I would like to do is to “cut” the value in the “Copyright” field, and “paste” … Read more
I would like to have help please with ExifTool, for the following operations: I have thousands of pictures scattered across dozens of sub-folders. All sub-folders are nested under a single parent folder, though. How do I tell ExifTool to apply the changes on all files? What I would like to do specifically is to “cut” … Read more
Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Super User. Closed 7 years ago. Improve this question Do you know one? Ideally it should just get a directory name and run. So, EXIF editor with per file approach is not … Read more
the EXIF DateTimeOriginal format is YYYY:MM:DD (HH:MM:SS) per its specification. I don’t want to records the seconds from the time. I want my format to be YYYY:MM:DD (HH:MM). How I can achieve this, regardless the OS? Answer ExifTool lets you read and write EXIF data. You can use it to extract the timestamp, set the … Read more
Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Super User. Closed 9 years ago. Improve this question My application has a set of images on which computation is conducted. But the issue is that most of the cameras that take … Read more
I am getting the following error each time I view JPG files in the windows explorer in Detailed view. It also appears when you open the properties of the file. I’m using Windows 8. Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library Assertion failed! Program: C:\Windows\Explorer.EXE File: multimedia\photos\metadatahandler\util.cpp Line: 4706 Expression: MinutesFraction < 1.0 For information on how … Read more
