Is there any way to do this, write keywords to a list of files, using their file paths?
I'm tired of Picasa loosing my starred photos when I move over to a new pc -in this case move over to Ubuntu. I managed to save my list of starred pics and batch replace the file path beginnings (using Z:/.. instead of E:/..) but still picasa dumped half of the list.
So what i need is to write a keyword tag, like "star" to all the jpegs in my saved starlist. then they will be safe for ever. There are like 13000+ pics in the list. could exiftool search a list file for the file names? I also don't need exiftool to make back-ups of the files.
exiftool -keywords+="star" [what next?]
If you have the file names in a text file (called "files.txt" for example), with each file name on a separate line, you can do this:
exiftool -keywords+="star" -@ files.txt
- Phil
my starlist file has all the file locations, it would take me ages to remove them all
can file names have spaces? because my test with 2 file names didn't work (I back-slashed the space as well)
Quote from: orbspider on June 27, 2011, 08:24:13 AM
can file names have spaces? because my test with 2 file names didn't work
Yes. The input .txt file should look something like this:
c:\some directory name\some sub directory\some file.jpg
c:\some other directory name\some other sub directory\some other file.jpg
...- Phil
in ubuntu? using c:/ ??
isn't it like \media\disk\folder\folder\picture.jpg
no sorry, like /media/disk/folder/folder/picture.jpg AND it worked this time.
cheers a lot
Sorry, I missed the fact you were on a Unix system. Of course, use directory specifications appropriate to your system.
Glad you figured this out.
- Phil