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ExifTool => Newbies => Topic started by: thisisbommy on October 16, 2023, 11:13:02 AM

Title: Writing dates from CSV to MOV files on Mac External Drive
Post by: thisisbommy on October 16, 2023, 11:13:02 AM
Hello. I have a folder full of .mov files and a .csv with the dates I'd like to overwrite for every Exif CSV date, or at least the ones that Photos on MacOS cares about. Ideally I'd also like to overwrite the file names with this date too.

I've copied one of these videos into another folder to test and, based on this thread (https://exiftool.org/forum/index.php?topic=12540.0), I have attempted the following, but I'm getting an error. I'd greatly appreciate any advice.

Terminal Output below, followed by a screen grab that shows my CSV and folder structure too.

Last login: Mon Oct 16 16:05:04 on ttys000
tomwhitaker@Toms-Air-M2 ~ % cd /Volumes/4TB\ SSD/Movies/Japan\ 2009
tomwhitaker@Toms-Air-M2 Japan 2009 % exiftool . -csv=/Volumes/4TB\ SSD/Movies/Japan\ 2009/rename.csv
Warning: [minor] No media data - ./Japan #1 (id) (fcp1).mov
Error: End of processing at large atom (LargeFileSupport not enabled) - ./Japan #1 (id) (fcp1).mov
    1 directories scanned
    0 image files updated
    1 files weren't updated due to errors
tomwhitaker@Toms-Air-M2 Japan 2009 %

Screenshot (https://we.tl/t-GmmFr30yq0)
Title: Re: Writing dates from CSV to MOV files on Mac External Drive
Post by: Phil Harvey on October 16, 2023, 11:27:16 AM
Try adding -api largefilesupport to the command.

- Phil
Title: Re: Writing dates from CSV to MOV files on Mac External Drive
Post by: StarGeek on October 16, 2023, 11:33:01 AM
Here's the link to the docs on that option
-api LargeFileSupport option (https://exiftool.org/ExifTool.html#LargeFileSupport)

Reason why it's not enabled by default
Why LargeFileSupport is not enabled by default? (https://exiftool.org/forum/index.php?topic=11906.msg64263#msg64263)
Title: Re: Writing dates from CSV to MOV files on Mac External Drive
Post by: thisisbommy on October 16, 2023, 12:41:43 PM
Aha! Wonderful, thank you!