http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1140662 (http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1140662)
Greetings. Hats off to you Phil for your fantastic utility, and also to all the other users in your community.
I have made an error while learning Lightroom :-\
I have two sets of photos, the originals 1920x1080, and the reduced versions watermarked @ 640x360. In short, I wrongly added all the titles and captions to the 640x360 versions, and need to import that metadata info into the original 1920x1080 files. I have about 300 photos. Both sets of photos have the same name, but are in separate directories.
The example I found is;
exiftool -TagsFromFile source.jpg -title -author=Phil dest.jpg
So I tried (among other variations)
exiftool -TagsFromFile J:\sync\1\*.jpg -title –caption j:\sync\2\*.jpg
and it reports (this is just one of many errors)
File 'j:\sync\1\*.jpg' does not exist for –tagsFromFile option
j:\sync\1\*.jpg is the source directory with all the photos containing the correct metadata
J:\sync\2\*.jpg is the destination directory with the (empty metadata) photos I need updated from the \1\ source directory
Where am I going wrong? I am not usually the type to just ask for the answer, but my head is mush from reading, any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
I think the command you are looking for is:
exiftool -tagsfromfile j:\sync\1\%f.%e -xmp:all -ext jpg j:\sync\2\
Here I am using -xmp:all because I think these are probably the tags you want to copy.
- Phil
Thanks Phil, I was way off, that worked like a charm. May I post the correct command syntax on the adobe forums?
Absolutely.
- Phil