Hi,
I've recently tried to bulk edit a bunch of my screenshots so that they have timezone metadata information. The csv file I am using is attached below. However when I run the command
exiftool -overwrite_original -csv="C:\Users\Isaac\Pictures\metadata.csv" "C:\Users\Isaac\Pictures\Screenshots" in administrator command prompt:
It returns with ...
Error: Error creating file: C:/Users/Isaac/Pictures/Screenshots/Screenshot 2025-03-29 124344.png_exiftool_tmp - C:/Users/Isaac/Pictures/Screenshots/Screenshot 2025-03-29 124344.png
Error: Error creating file: C:/Users/Isaac/Pictures/Screenshots/Screenshot 2025-03-29 125122.png_exiftool_tmp - C:/Users/Isaac/Pictures/Screenshots/Screenshot 2025-03-29 125122.png
Error: Error creating file: C:/Users/Isaac/Pictures/Screenshots/Screenshot 2025-03-29 125231.png_exiftool_tmp - C:/Users/Isaac/Pictures/Screenshots/Screenshot 2025-03-29 125231.png
Error: Error creating file: C:/Users/Isaac/Pictures/Screenshots/WVKJ1508.JPG_exiftool_tmp - C:/Users/Isaac/Pictures/Screenshots/WVKJ1508.JPG
1 directories scanned
0 image files updated
562 files weren't updated due to errors
Not sure why it is happening. Any help is greatly appreciated! Thank you so much in advance.
This is a permission problem. ExifTool needs write permission in the output directory. Make sure the directory is writable.
- Phil