Geotag option to delete originals?

Started by jsachs, December 25, 2020, 08:07:36 AM

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jsachs

I am currently calling ExifTool from my application (Picture Window -- dl-c.com) to geotag files in a folder. Currently, after creating a geotagged version of each image file, the original untagged version is retained with _original tacked onto the end of the filename. It would be nice if there were an option to delete the originals instead once the geotagged files are created.

Phil Harvey

The option is -overwrite_original

After the fact, if you didn't use that option when you did the geotagging, you can use the -delete_original option to delete existing _original files.

- Phil
...where DIR is the name of a directory/folder containing the images.  On Mac/Linux/PowerShell, use single quotes (') instead of double quotes (") around arguments containing a dollar sign ($).

jsachs