Hello folks,
Brand new user to ExifTool & the GUI but it's helping me a lot. I think it can help me even more though.
So far I am mostly using the following commands:
- Workspace Manager feature to update Artist, Copyright, Event, Location, etc.
- Various > File: Date modified as in Exif ...
- Modify > Exif: DateTime shift . . . (Set the date wrong - 1 year off)
When I take my camera out, I usually come back with a few thousand images. More than most folks, I realize, so a tool like this has great value to me. But I'm having a problem. The GUI hangs up if I try to process too many images at a time.
With Workspace Manager, I can only select and process 300 images at a time. Any more than than that and it hangs with 0 cpu used and I have to kill the process and restart the program.
With the Date operations I can only select and process ~ 400 files at a time.
I'm using a 2.7~3.4GHz quad-core i7, 8GB RAM machine so processing power shouldn't be an issue. Processing 300~400 images at a time is better than nothing but I'd rather do them all at once.
If I'm doing something wrong or missing some option, could someone let me know?
Regards,
Knotical
It might help if you select the directory instead of the individual images.
- Phil
Quote from: Phil Harvey on February 06, 2013, 06:07:18 PM
It might help if you select the directory instead of the individual images.
- Phil
Great suggestion but that doesn't seem to be possible in the GUI.
If I select the folder, I can
see all the files in the folder but the last three menu options are dimmed so date operations are out. Regarding Workspace Manager, without a file selected, no fields are visible so I can't right click on a field and tell it to
Fill in default values. I guess those fields are associated with the files in the folder and not the folder itself.
What shall I try next?
EDIT: I don't
have to stick with the GUI but it seemed wise for a beginner with the tool.
I can't help with the GUI, but you can specify a directory with the command-line application.
On the command line there is no limit to the number of files, but Windows does have a limit on the maximum length of a command. (Mac and Linux do not have this limit.)
- Phil