Hi,
I am very new to this tool. Please consider me as a layman.
I have a batch of low resolution images which contain metadata information like title, description and keywords.
I am have another batch of high resolution images with same name but no metadata information.
I want to batch copy those title description and keywords from low resolution images to the high resolution images.
Like I have abc.jpg (low res with metadata) in one folder and same name abc.jpg (high res without metadata)..... And I want to copy them easily.
I hope explained it properly.
Please consider me as a nerd and explain me each steps in easy way.
As said I am very new to the tool and have never used it before.
The basic command would be something like
exiftool -TagsFromFile /path/to/lowres/%F -IPTC:All -XMP:All /path/to/hires/
Here I set it to copy both the IPTC IIM/Legacy and the XMP tags, which would be IPTC Core. If there are subdirectories, that would take some additional work.
Add -P (preserve) option (https://exiftool.org/exiftool_pod.html#P--preserve) to preserve the FileDateModified on the hires files. This command will create backup files. To suppress this, add the -overwrite_original option (https://exiftool.org/exiftool_pod.html#overwrite_original).
Thanks for the reply.
I am totally lost here. I don't know how to use exiftool. Where to use the command. I have downloaded the tool but I am very new to it.
Can you please guide me each steps. It will be very kind of you, please.
I have files here:
C:\lowres
C:\highres
Further what do you mean by " If there are subdirectories, that would take some additional work."
Start by reading over the stickied thread, Getting started: Command-line ExifTool in Windows (https://exiftool.org/forum/index.php?topic=4888.0). You might want to google search for some tutorials on the command line as well.
The command I listed assumed there would not be any files in subdirectories. If you wanted to recurse into subdirectories, the command would be more complex.
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