Running
exiftool(-k).exe
produces the following error
Error creating temp file C:/Users/Terry/AppData/Local/Temp/par-Terry//exiftool_doc.txt
Note the double slashes in the portion added to my temp path.
I am not a perl guru and still am in the pretty useless mode of debugging perl scripts.
I am running the windows .exe version on
Windows 7 Pro (up to date on patches)
perl 5.10.1 (but since I am using the Windows .exe, it should not matter)
If I run it against a .jpg file it appears that I get correct information from the file.
Any clues as to where to go from here?
Hi Terry,
The double slash shouldn't matter. (It doesn't matter in Unix anyway.)
Does the directory "C:/Users/Terry/AppData/Local/Temp/par-Terry" exist, and is the directory writable by you?
And if the file C:/Users/Terry/AppData/Local/Temp/par-Terry/exiftool_doc.txt already exists, do you have write permission?
- Phil
:) Thanks Phil. I managed to get around the issue. More to the point, it seems to work fine now.
Hello everybody,
I have a similar problem when the path has a white space in the middle, using under Windows
For Example:
c:\Archive Pictures\images
Is it an bug? should I substitute Archive Pictures by Archive%20Pictures ? Should all directories not have a white space?
Thanks in advance
JJo
This sounds like a problem running exiftool, not with the installation per se.
The space is used to separate arguments on the command line. There are other special characters (such as > and < for example) which also cause problems. Arguments containing these characters must be quoted on the command line. In Windows, double quotes must be used, ie)
exiftool "c:\Archive Pictures\images"
- Phil
It would be nice when running exiftool without any arguments to not get this cryptic error:
PS E:\users\john\Pictures\iMac_Photos_Export_2015-07-25\March 11, 2008> exiftool
Error creating temp file C:/Users/John/AppData/Local/Temp/par-John//exiftool_doc.txt
-- press RETURN --
This was the first command I tried to run after installing version 10.09 on Windows 7. I figured out that I could get useful help information by adding ".", i.e., exiftool .
Thanks for an extremely powerful utility!
OK, I'll change it so the output looks like this:
PS E:\users\john\Pictures\iMac_Photos_Export_2015-07-25\March 11, 2008> exiftool
Error creating temp file C:/Users/John/AppData/Local/Temp/par-John//exiftool_doc.txt
So ExifTool can't print the help documentation.
-- press RETURN --
- Phil
Quote from: Phil Harvey on January 16, 2016, 02:29:02 PM
OK, I'll change it so the output looks like this:
PS E:\users\john\Pictures\iMac_Photos_Export_2015-07-25\March 11, 2008> exiftool
Error creating temp file C:/Users/John/AppData/Local/Temp/par-John//exiftool_doc.txt
So ExifTool can't print the help documentation.
-- press RETURN --
- Phil
What service! Thank you!