System: Win 7 and Linux
Exiftool Version: 9.65
Command Line: exiftool -profilecopyright="testing" <filename>.jpg
Console Output: Normal output "1 file updated"
After using ImageMagick to crop image from .tif to .jpg. Exiftool is unable to override the existing Profile Copyright metadata with new values.
This is FAQ number 3 (https://exiftool.org/faq.html#Q3).
- Phil
In the case of your test image, -IFD0:ProfileCopyright is being written to correctly. The trouble is that there is also -ICC_Profile:ProfileCopyright, which apparently cannot be written to.
Thank you for your responses. I see what is causing the problem now, and have devised a workaround for this. Good to know! Though, do you know why that particular set of metadata tags cannot be overwritten?
ExifTool can not currently write individual ICC_Profile tags. You can check the Tag Name documentation (https://exiftool.org/TagNames/ICC_Profile.html) to see which tags are writable.
- Phil
Ah I see, do you forsee it becoming writable in future releases of Exiftool?
No. There has been no need to add this feature.
- Phil