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Hello

I am trying to extract complete XMP records for a folder of images and write them all to a single text file

I have been using the command
ExifTool -xmp -b <folder_of_images> > xmp_records.txt
   
However, the output from this is a single line of text for all files.

Is there a way to format the output to at least place the record string for each file on a new line?
Or even to format the record strings with a new line for each tag and nested tags indented?

Thanks

Michael

Hi Michael,

To reformat the xmp will require that it be rewritten.  Doing this, you will lose any tags that ExifTool doesn't know about (ie. uncommon non-standard information).  The command uses a couple of the more advanced features of ExifTool:

exiftool -o -.xmp "-all:all<xmp:all" DIR > out.xmp

- Phil

Hello Phil

That's brilliant and does exactly what I asked for. Thanks very much.
(...next project is to decipher the command...)

As an extra request, is there also a way to precede the writing of each record with the associated file name/path?

Regards

Michael

Hi Michael,

Quote from: mjb on June 25, 2021, 08:20:59 AM
is there also a way to precede the writing of each record with the associated file name/path?

I can't think of a way to do exactly this, but you can embed the file name in the XMP.  Here I put it in the OriginalFileName tag:

exiftool -o -.xmp "-all:all<xmp:all" "-originalfilename<filename" DIR > out.xmp

Note also that you have various options to control the XMP formatting using the API Compact option (https://exiftool.org/ExifTool.html#Compact) (eg. -api compact=shorthand)

- Phil

Hey Phil

That's great once again. That does what I'm after so thanks very much.

Will have a look at the API Compact option.

Regards
Michael