Using exiftool 9.98 under Windows 7 - I am trying to write the base directory (not the entire directory path) into the EXIF comment without any success.
Command: exiftool -r -Comment="%%:d" -charset "FileName=Latin" TOP_LEVEL_DIRECTORY\
As a result exiftool writes the text %%:d into the comment.
Maybe I'm doing something that has to be done in a completely different way.
I would be glad if somebody can help me.
Best regards - Jo
Hi Jo,
The %d etc only work when writing FileName or Directory.
You need to use the advanced formatting feature to do this. Something like:
exiftool "-comment<${directory;s(.*?/)()}" ...
This will remove the top level directory name.
- Phil
Hi Phil,
thank you very much for your immediate response - it did it!
One simple question remains: instead of writing to '-Comment' (Exif.Photo.UserComment) what would I have to use to write to '-Exif.Image.ImageDescription'?
Your quick help was and still is very much appreciated.
- Jo
Hi Jo,
Quote from: jowe on July 09, 2015, 03:17:55 PM
One simple question remains: instead of writing to '-Comment' (Exif.Photo.UserComment) what would I have to use to write to '-Exif.Image.ImageDescription'?
I'm sure you can guess the answer. Hint: ExifTool uses colons instead of periods as separators if you are qualifying a tag name. The qualifiers (ExifTool group names) are optional, and order doesn't matter, so pretty much anything you guess should work.
- Phil
Hi Phil,
it did'nt work well - it worked very well.
Once again, many thanks for your help.
- Jo