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Title: Not a deletable group
Post by: Tr on May 20, 2014, 04:09:30 PM

I have some bogus tag groups <vr> created somehow. Below is my attempt to delete them:

>exiftool -vr:all= *.tif
Warning: Not a deletable group: vr
Nothing to do.

Any help is appreciated.

Title: Re: Not a deletable group
Post by: Phil Harvey on May 20, 2014, 07:54:30 PM

ExifTool can only write tags which have been pre-defined. To delete these you would have to create matching user-defined tags.

- Phil

Title: Re: Not a deletable group
Post by: Jk on May 21, 2014, 04:41:12 PM

Hi Phil -

I am new to Exiftool Forum, but have been working closely with Tr.

I looked into creating matching user-defined tags from the Exiftool FAQ.

I have a working .ExifTool_config

I am trying to create the XMP:XMP-vr tags so that I can delete them from images.

Below is my attempt (using example):

exiftool -v2 -NewXMPxmpTag=test FILE
Warning: Tag 'NewXMPvrTag' does not exist
Nothing to do.

Any help is much appreciated.

Title: Re: Not a deletable group
Post by: Phil Harvey on May 21, 2014, 09:22:05 PM

I can't give any specific advice, except to read FAQ 11 (https://exiftool.org/faq.html#Q11), without seeing the config file.

- Phil

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