Have found a large amount of good information on how to go about accomplishing various things with the software .... my question is vastly more basic - where is the software?
Downloaded/installed ExifTool - what's the next step? (Where is it on the hard drive, how it it launched?)
The only process I need to do with the software is remove ALL metadata (including ISO, f-stop, shutter speed). If this is a command-line process, what's the process?
Just download the Windows ExifTool zip file, extract "exiftool(-k).exe", then drag and drop an image file on it to extract the metadata.
To remove the metadata from the dropped file, change the name of exiftool to "exiftool(-all= -k).exe" then do the same thing.
- Phil
Is there a way to do this with Mac?
Also have several thousand images to remove metadata from - is there a way to batch process instead of one at a time?
Ah, sorry. On the mac:
1) Open a Terminal window (Applications/Terminal).
2) Type "exiftool" then a SPACE.
3) Drag and drop a file onto the Terminal window
4) Press RETURN on the keyboard.
This will show you the metadata. To delete it all, do the same thing but type "exiftool -all=" then a SPACE before dropping the file.
- Phil
Drag/drop a file into the terminal window and a path appears.
Press return ... "pattern not found (press RETURN)"
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Not sure what "pattern" refers to. Also, is there a way to batch process several hundred/thousand images, versus doing one at a time?
Did you type "exiftool" and SPACE first? (No RETURN)
- Phil
Edit: before you press return, the command should look something like this:
exiftool /Users/phil/Desktop/image.jpg
Edit2: I didn't answer your question about the 1000's of files. To do this, drop the folder containing the files instead of the file itself.