Request -q or -m silences 'No SourceFile in imported CSV database' error message

[alanterra]

Perhaps (probably!) I don't understand something, but I am finding the error message 'No SourceFile in imported CSV database' quite distracting.

I create a csv file with a few hundred of the few thousand files in my hierarchy with a exiftool -csv -if '...' -r . > out.csv command, where the -if matches only some of the files. I then edit the file and want to reapply my changes, and I get an error message for every file that the -if omitted.

Of course, I can redirect errors to another place, but it seems that this mismatch should be treated as a minor error. (From the manual: "Generally, minor errors/warnings indicate a problem which usually won't result in loss of metadata if ignored.")

[Phil Harvey]

You could use the same -if when you re-apply the changes.

- Phil

[alanterra]

Doh!