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ExifTool => Newbies => Topic started by: Jossie on July 03, 2019, 11:23:30 AM

Title: Tags written to write-protected images
Post by: Jossie on July 03, 2019, 11:23:30 AM
Hello,

just found out that even if an image has set the file attribute to "write-protect" (Win10, 64bit), EXIFtool nevertheless writes or deletes a tag. How could this be?

Hermann-Josef
Title: Re: Tags written to write-protected images
Post by: Phil Harvey on July 03, 2019, 12:38:45 PM
Hi Hermann-Josef,

Read here (https://exiftool.org/exiftool_pod.html#WRITING-READ-ONLY-FILES)

- Phil