I was hoping somebody could help with this. I'm trying to set the datetimeoriginal tag to another value because the current value is incorrect. However, when I do that, I am getting the following error:
Error while attempting to call Image::ExifTool::SetNewValue
Image/ExifTool/Writer.pl did not return a true value at (eval 17) line 1.
To explain what happens, I first check the original value by entering:
exiftool -s3 -DateTimeOriginal "c:\Users\Me\Desktop\fix\pics\jpg\foo.jpg"
This returns the result which shows there is a problem with the current value:
1920: : 00:00:00
I then try to use the following command which produces the above error:
exiftool -DateTimeOriginal="1920:01:01 00:00:00" "c:\Users\Me\Desktop\fix\pics\jpg\foo.jpg"
I've tried numerous variants of this command with no success.
I'm on Win8 using the latest version of exiftool.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Loren
Hi Loren,
Your ExifTool installation is corrupt. Please uninstall and re-install as per the instructions here (https://exiftool.org/install.html). Often just deleting the temporary files and re-running will fix this problem.
- Phil
Uninstalling and reinstalling corrected the issue. Thank you very much!