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ExifTool => The "exiftool" Application => Topic started by: dconroy82 on October 29, 2015, 01:46:53 PM

Title: How can I stop my original files "modified date" from being updated?
Post by: dconroy82 on October 29, 2015, 01:46:53 PM
Hello,
I am using the following command line (in Windows) to take the exif data from an original .ORF (Olympus raw) file, and put the exif data on a reduced size jpg file in another folder.

c:\scripts\exiftool.exe -TagsFromFile "\\server\share\photos\file1.ORF" "-all:all>all:all" "\\server\share\jpg\file1.jpg" -overwrite_original

While it is working great, I'm noticing that every original ORF file gets it's "modified date" updated to the current date and time, each time this runs. Can anyone explain why this is happening? It should simply be reading FROM that ORF file, not making any changes - correct?

Is there a command line switch to stop this happening? I did try removing "-overwrite_original", but that's really just referring to the original jpg file before the exif data is added to it.


Thanks,
Dan
Title: Re: How can I stop my original files "modified date" from being updated?
Post by: Phil Harvey on October 29, 2015, 02:10:54 PM
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