[Originally posted by exiftool on 2006-09-14 14:56:23-07]A new feature has been added in ExifTool 6.40 which changes the behaviour when writing
to allow tags to be added back to a deleted group in a single step when writing. This is
a significant change, and one that could be useful to some serious ExifTool users.
For instance, now you can do things like this:
# delete EXIF from image and replace with information from another image
exiftool -exif:all= -tagsfromfile src.jpg -exif:all dst.jpg
Previously, this command would have just deleted all EXIF information in "dst.jpg" because prior to
version 6.40 the delete operation took precedence. But now, the delete operation is performed in the
same order as the arguments on the command line. (Note that without the "-exif:all=", the new EXIF
information would simply be added to pre-existing EXIF information in the destination image.)
Please test out the new version if this feature would be useful to you. I would like to discover
any problems before the next production release which I hope to do within a week or so.
You can download the new version from
the ExifTool home page.
Thanks.
- Phil