Would there be any interest in an extension that runs Exiftool directly from the MacOS Finder?
See attached screenshot of the Finder in gallery view which shows a preview of an image. When the ExifAction icon at the bottom of the Finder display is clicked Exiftool runs and displays the results in a separate window.
The basic principles are:
- runs from any Finder view (list, column, gallery or icons)
- select one or more image files and click the ExifAction icon within Finder to run Exiftool and display the results
- default or custom Exiftool commands (for example with/without unknowns, sort/no sort tags, short or descriptive tag names etc etc)
- does not require that Exiftool be installed on the computer
- allows user to keep control of when a new version of Exiftool is used
- access to the Exiftool output as a text file
- in its basic form does not require any knowledge of Exiftool syntax or the use of the MacOS terminal
- sandboxed and notarized by Apple to avoid any special installation techniques
ExifAction Gallery View.png
Quote from: greybeard on April 01, 2025, 06:32:37 AMWould there be any interest in an extension that runs Exiftool directly from the MacOS Finder?
Yes! Sounds very interesting and useful.
- Matti
Quote from: wywh on April 01, 2025, 12:50:38 PMQuote from: greybeard on April 01, 2025, 06:32:37 AMWould there be any interest in an extension that runs Exiftool directly from the MacOS Finder?
Yes! Sounds very interesting and useful.
- Matti
I would appreciate your opinion - will send a link to the application and a pdf description via pm
since you are local in macOS, you could access extended attributes too that tend to be stripped in transfer! that would be cool.. : )
- J
Quote from: blue-j on April 04, 2025, 02:54:50 PMsince you are local in macOS, you could access extended attributes too that tend to be stripped in transfer! that would be cool.. : )
- J
yes - all the attributes that Exiftool reports in the "MacOS" group are accessible
[MacOS] File Creation Date/Time : 2020:12:16 15:28:55+00:00
[MacOS] KMD Item Display Name With Extensions: DSCF0102a.RAF
[MacOS] MD Item Content Creation Date : 2020:12:16 15:28:55+00:00
[MacOS] MD Item Content Creation Date Ranking: 2020:12:16 00:00:00+00:00
[MacOS] MD Item Content Modification Date: 2024:06:25 16:42:24+01:00
[MacOS] MD Item Content Type : com.fuji.raw-image
[MacOS] MD Item Content Type Tree : com.fuji.raw-image, public.camera-raw-image, public.image, public.data, public.item, public.content
[MacOS] MD Item Date Added : 2025:01:29 08:54:13+00:00
[MacOS] MD Item Display Name : DSCF0102a.RAF
[MacOS] MD Item Document Identifier : 0
[MacOS] MD Item FS Content Change Date : 2024:06:25 16:42:24+01:00
[MacOS] MD Item FS Creation Date : 2020:12:16 15:28:55+00:00
[MacOS] MD Item FS Creator Code :
[MacOS] MD Item FS Finder Flags : 1036
[MacOS] MD Item FS Has Custom Icon :
[MacOS] MD Item FS Invisible : 0
[MacOS] MD Item FS Is Extension Hidden : 0
[MacOS] MD Item FS Is Stationery : 1
[MacOS] MD Item FS Label : 6 (Red)
[MacOS] MD Item FS Name : DSCF0102a.RAF
[MacOS] MD Item FS Node Count :
[MacOS] MD Item FS Owner Group ID : 99
[MacOS] MD Item FS Owner User ID : 99
[MacOS] MD Item FS Size : 29414064
[MacOS] MD Item FS Type Code :
[MacOS] MD Item Has Alpha Channel : 0
[MacOS] MD Item Interesting Date Ranking: 2025:01:29 00:00:00+00:00
[MacOS] MD Item Kind : Fujifilm Camera Raw file
[MacOS] MD Item Logical Size : 29414064
[MacOS] MD Item Orientation : 0
[MacOS] MD Item Physical Size : 29417472
[MacOS] MD Item Pixel Count : 0
[MacOS] MD Item User Tags : FUJIFILM, Canon EOS R3, Red
[MacOS] X Attr Finder Info : Type='' Creator='' Flags=CustomIcon Label=6 Pos=(0,0)
[MacOS] X Attr Resource Fork : (Binary data 509296 bytes, use -b option to extract)
[MacOS] X Attr MD Item User Tags : FUJIFILM, Canon EOS R3, Red.6
[MacOS] X Attr Quarantine : Flags=0082 set at 2023:03:08 17:40:40 by ExifTags
Absolutely we would definitely use this.