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ExifTool => The "exiftool" Application => Topic started by: joergens.mi on January 08, 2011, 05:48:58 AM

Title: copying all metadata except thumbnail
Post by: joergens.mi on January 08, 2011, 05:48:58 AM
I do a lot of picture manipulation on my own photos. Some of the tools are destroying manipulating the meta information.
Is there a way to copy all information from the source picture -- like exiftool -TagsFromFile src.jpg -all:all dst.jpg
-- to another without overwriting the thumbnail in the destination. I want to preserve the embedded thumbnail in the destination picture.

Thanks for help
Title: Re: copying all metadata except thumbnail
Post by: Phil Harvey on January 08, 2011, 06:15:33 AM
You could try this:

exiftool -tagsfromfile src.jpg -all:all -tagsfromfile @ -thumbnailimage dst.jpg

- Phil