In your first option, exiftool will write a text file containing the metadata for each and every file dropped onto the icon. Drag the files you want to process onto the exiftool icon and exiftool will process the file according to the options that are in the parentheses. Setting up exiftool like this is a Drag & Drop situation (see ii under Running in Windows). When I double click the former the black command box flashes briefly on the screen then disappears. exe file as per the instructions, 'exiftool(-a -u -gl -w txt).exe'. If anyone can point me to a wiki I can follow, or tell me what I have done wrong and need to do to correct it, please tell me. (If I could figure out how to post pics here, I'd post screenshots to further inform this post. I see the list of files but no metadata for any file when I select. cda files - of the folder that I dropped in the ExifTool command window. When I double click the ExifToolGUI.exe I get an error message saying that ExifTool was not found however, when I get an ExifToolGUI window with the folder contents - a series of. When I click the latter I get the command window and it persists allowing me to drag a file to it however, nothing happens after the drop.

Proceeding from that understanding, I have downloaded and unzipped both the ExifTool and the GUI.

Either my expectations need educating or I need help with the instructions.Īs I understand it, the ExifTool is itself a command line program however, there is a GUI that will allow me to interface with it in a window (win 10/2004).

Following the instructions as I understand them, I cannot get the results I expected.

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