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Title: What is the cause of this Minor Warning?
Post by: Leonard WHYTE on October 08, 2021, 07:06:35 PM

Folks,

When I run htmldump on some of my images, I get the following minor warning:

iMacR27:ORIGINAL-CanonSX720HS len$ exiftool -htmldump ./IMG_2210.JPG > /dev/null
Warning: [Minor] Not decoding some large array(s). Ignore minor errors to decode - ./IMG_2210.JPG
iMacR27:ORIGINAL-CanonSX720HS len$

I realise this is a MINOR Warning, but all the same, I'd like to understand the cause. Is there any way I can get more information? The "-v" option doesn't seem to generate any more output.

I've attached this file FYI.

Thanks, Len

Title: Re: What is the cause of this Minor Warning?
Post by: Phil Harvey on October 08, 2021, 08:49:28 PM

Hi Len,

Because it may be slow and take a lot of memory, there is a limit on the number of items that ExifTool will decode in an array by default.

- Phil

Title: Re: What is the cause of this Minor Warning?
Post by: Leonard WHYTE on October 10, 2021, 06:49:23 PM

Phil, Understood. But is there a way you could briefly identify the array/tag/item in question? Len

Title: Re: What is the cause of this Minor Warning?
Post by: Phil Harvey on October 11, 2021, 09:52:41 PM

Hi Len,

You should be able to identify the tag(s) like this:

exiftool -u FILE | grep 'large array'

- Phil

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