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ExifTool => ExifTool GUI => Topic started by: BigBear on June 23, 2012, 04:40:29 PM

Title: Error: Bad Exif IFD offset for Exif Version
Post by: BigBear on June 23, 2012, 04:40:29 PM
Hi there!
I'm going crazy with exif file. Here in my pc all it's OK, but when the files are online in my gallery the exif are all messed up.
So I'm trying to check all here but in many pictures I have this alarm from ExitToolGUI:
Error: Bad Exif IFD offset for Exif Version.
I cannot find ant reason for this alarm.... and the problem is only here in ExifToolGUI.
Please help me  :-[
Title: Re: Error: Bad Exif IFD offset for Exif Version
Post by: BogdanH on June 24, 2012, 02:28:51 AM
Hi,
I assume you get this message when you try to modify metadata on particular files which reside in your online gallery? If that's the case, download such file and try to modify metadata on your local dive again. Anyway, the reason for such error message is metadata corruption.
Is it possible for you to attach (or give a link to) example of image file on which that error occur? You say, the problem is only in ExifToolGUI -are you also using any other metadata tool?

Bogdan
Title: Re: Error: Bad Exif IFD offset for Exif Version
Post by: Phil Harvey on June 24, 2012, 06:54:48 AM
ExifVersion should not have an offset, so it is written incorrectly to begin with.

It sounds like your images may need to have the EXIF rebuilt.  FAQ number 20 (https://exiftool.org/faq.html#Q20) explains how to do this from the command line.

- Phil