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Title: file extension.dir results in error
Post by: kiefermat on October 13, 2021, 05:34:14 AM

If I run exiftool on a file with extension .dir I get the following error:

Can't locate Image/ExifTool/DIR.pm in @INC (you may need to install the Image::ExifTool::DIR module)

Is this an installation issue? I did not find any module DIR.pm in the exiftool package.

To reproduce use any file with extension .dir:

$ touch foo.dir
$ exiftool foo.dir
Can't locate Image/ExifTool/DIR.pm in @INC (you may need to install the Image::ExifTool::DIR module) (@INC contains: /usr/local/Cellar/exiftool/12.30/libexec/lib /Library/Perl/5.30/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Library/Perl/5.30 /Network/Library/Perl/5.30/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Network/Library/Perl/5.30 /Library/Perl/Updates/5.30.2 /System/Library/Perl/5.30/darwin-thread-multi-2level /System/Library/Perl/5.30 /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.30/darwin-thread-multi-2level /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.30) at /usr/local/Cellar/exiftool/12.30/libexec/lib/Image/ExifTool.pm line 2645.

I have reproduced this issue on Linux and Mac and with different versions of exiftool including the current version 12.32

Title: Re: file extension.dir results in error
Post by: Phil Harvey on October 13, 2021, 08:13:02 AM

Good catch! I'll fix this in the next release. ExifTool 12.33 will report this as an unsupported file type.

- Phil

Title: Re: file extension.dir results in error
Post by: kiefermat on October 15, 2021, 03:48:10 AM

Thanks a lot!

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