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Title: How to disable the generation of the "original" files
Post by: michaelpaige on December 05, 2012, 12:19:23 PM

Hello,

I am trying to add a piece of IPTC metadata to some very large tif files. It has taken most of the day and there is no prospect of it completing any time soon.

I assume this is because Exiftool is generating the "_original" backup files, which I think is a bit over cautious for adding a bit of metadata. Is there a way to disable this?

Thanks.

Title: Re: How to disable the generation of the "original" files
Post by: Phil Harvey on December 05, 2012, 02:05:04 PM

Avoiding the _original file won't speed things up.

How big is the file? ExifTool should be able to rewrite a TIFF file at close to the maximum speed of the hard disk.

If it is going really slowly, the likely cause is a shortage of memory.

What version of ExifTool are you using? Older versions required more memory.

- Phil

Title: Re: How to disable the generation of the "original" files
Post by: michaelpaige on December 06, 2012, 05:11:27 AM

Thanks for your help. I think I was able to improve the performance by using a server, the desktop I had was indeed a bit low on disc space. The tiffs are about 300 mb each. It seems to run now at about 50s per file.

Thanks again for your help.

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