Hey guys,
I want to copy files with minimal meta and the GPS group, but this command is copying all tags. Please help.
-TagsFromFile
@
-EXIF:GPS:All
E:\mySourceFolder\Srcfile_1.JPG
E:\mySourceFolder\Srcfile_2.JPG
-o
e:\myTargetFolder\%f.%e
You aren't clearing any information. By itself, the -o (-out) option (https://exiftool.org/exiftool_pod.html#o-OUTFILE-or-FMT--out) will create a copy of the file with no alterations to the metadata. The -TagsFromFile option here is simply copying the GPS data back into the file and this doesn't affect any of the other information in the file.
Try
-All=
-TagsFromFile
@
-EXIF:GPS:All
E:\mySourceFolder\Srcfile_1.JPG
E:\mySourceFolder\Srcfile_2.JPG
-o
e:\myTargetFolder\%f.%e
Thank you StarGeek, that worked well.
I tried to use the same command to make sidecar files, changing only the extension name. But exiftool is returning this error:
Error: Nothing to write - E:/mySourceFolder/Srcfile_1.JPG
Error: Nothing to write - E:/mySourceFolder/Srcfile_2.JPG
0 image files updated
2 files weren't updated due to errors
-All=
-TagsFromFile
@
-EXIF:GPS:All
E:\mySourceFolder\Srcfile_1.JPG
E:\mySourceFolder\Srcfile_2.JPG
-o
e:\myTargetFolder\%f.xmp
You can't write EXIF-format to an XMP file. Unfortunately the GPS in XMP format is organized a bit differently, which makes things a bit more complicated. To copy to XMP, you should replace
-EXIF:GPS:All
with
-@
gps2xmp.args
You can get gps2xmp.args here (https://github.com/exiftool/exiftool/blob/master/arg_files/gps2xmp.args).
- Phil
The translation args file worked great for me. Thank you Phil.
Good news. I studied more and I got this to work for me to copy only the GPS group.
-TagsFromFile
@
-EXIF:GPS:All
e:\mySourceFolder\SrcFile_1.JPG
e:\mySourceFolder\SrcFile_3.JPG
-o
e:\myTargetFolder\%f.exif