Hi;
I'm using Apple's Snow Leopard ver 10.6.8. Have some old image files that have been copied through several versions of Windows and finally over to a MacBook Pro. During this process the Creation Date has been corrupted. Since I'm trying to organized ALL my images in a consistent structure, I've set up an Automator to 1) Re-Name Files using the Creation Date & 2) replace all Windows Illegal file-name characters with an Underscore (so there won't be problems when I send copies to Windows users). Obviously, for the corrupted Creation Date Files, this is not satisfactory. Tried several programs & Automator add-ons but they are too tedious and time consuming.
Came across http://studio.messlinger.com/2009/03/08/exiftool-and-the-automator/ This looked promising since I had already had minor experience with ExifTool through GeoSetter, using it for manipulating the metadata.
Downloaded ExifTool-8.97.dmg and opened it.
A small window popped up immediately but disappeared too quickly to read anything, A short time later another window popped up saying "The following disk images couldn't be opened" with the IMAGE NAME: ExifTool 8.97 & REASON: No mountable file systems".
I understand that this dmg installs files to /user/bin with no Icon generated. Tried using Terminal to run exiftool and got "command not found".
Could not find anything in Newbies or Install-Problems Forums (though I may have missed it). Until it is set up properly, I cannot proceed with integrating ExifTool with Automator.
I'm not a programmer, but can usually follow or work through instructions.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Grumpie
Sorry for the delay in responding.
I just verified that the ExifTool-8.97.dmg distribution file works fine on OS X 10.6.8. The md5 for the file should be d15353e90bfa8414571e4b7b71cafd9f. If it isn't, then the file must have been corrupted in the download. In this case, re-download and try again.
If the md5 is correct, then there is another problem I don't understand. But there are 3 different ways to install ExifTool on OSX, so you could try another one. See the install instructions (https://exiftool.org/install.html) for details.
As well, you don't need to install ExifTool at all to run it. Just unpack the full distribution tarball and run directly.
- Phil
Not a problem with the delay. Slightly ahead of my capabilities but I'll figure out how to check the md5 ( know it is a calculated value from the info in the file ).
Will work through & try each method and then report back my findings.
Thanks for you work on ExifTools.
Quote from: Grumpie on July 27, 2012, 09:58:46 PM
but I'll figure out how to check the md5
It should be as simple as
md5 ~/Downloads/ExifTool-8.97.dmgon the command line