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ExifTool => The "exiftool" Application => Topic started by: L_Carver on November 03, 2016, 02:14:17 PM

Title: "Bending the rules" -- making an unwritable tag writable (temporarily at least)
Post by: L_Carver on November 03, 2016, 02:14:17 PM
I seem to recall you could do this with Exiftool, but I've forgotten where the reference was (it may have been in a thread in this forum).

Anyone care to point me in the right direction?

Carver
Title: Re: "Bending the rules" -- making an unwritable tag writable (temporarily at least)
Post by: StarGeek on November 03, 2016, 02:51:15 PM
Adding -m (http://www.exiftool.org/exiftool_pod.html#m) to the command line will allow exiftool to ignore minor warnings.  Actual errors will still be skipped.

Nevermind, misread the question.
Title: Re: "Bending the rules" -- making an unwritable tag writable (temporarily at least)
Post by: Phil Harvey on November 03, 2016, 07:13:34 PM
You can make any tag writable with the appropriate definition in a config file as long as the metadata group supports writing.  See the sample config file (https://exiftool.org/config.html) for more information.

- Phil