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I run a website where people can submit photos that they like. This last week, I began processing those images (specifically to resolve some image-orientation issues). That processing involves:
   - fix the photo orientation using ImageMagick
   - strip the embedded thumbnails using exiftool (b/c they may be oriented incorrectly)

While processing the images, I ran into this output from the exiftool

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Warning: [minor] Entries in IFD0 were out of sequence. Fixed. - /Users/Tom/PhotoProblems/ce0585c9-4ffb-4c84-96ce-9661c4c598fa.jpeg
Error: [minor] Suspicious ExifIFD offset for Padding - /Users/Tom/PhotoProblems/ce0585c9-4ffb-4c84-96ce-9661c4c598fa.jpeg
    0 image files updated
    1 files weren't updated due to errors

My exact invocation was:
bin/Image-ExifTool-10.19/exiftool -thumbnailimage= ~/PhotoProblems/ce0585c9-4ffb-4c84-96ce-9661c4c598fa.jpeg

The image file is attached.  I'm running version 10.19 on Mac OS X.

Note:  I might actually just use imageMagick to strip all the metadata off instead of trying to selectively remove the thumbnail.  That seems safer long-term anyway. However, I still wanted to report this for the benefit of the community. 

Thanks for all your hard work!

There are a few problems with your image:

> exiftool ~/Desktop/ce0585c9-4ffb-4c84-96ce-9661c4c598fa.jpeg -warning -a
Warning                         : Suspicious IFD0 offset for XPAuthor
Warning                         : Suspicious IFD0 offset for Padding
Warning                         : Suspicious ExifIFD offset for Padding
Warning                         : [minor] Fixed incorrect URI for xmlns:MicrosoftPhoto_1_

The last thing to write this image (before ExifTool) has messed up a few things.  The XPAuthor and Padding tags have a zero offset, which is wrong.  You can delete these invalid tags like this:

exiftool -xpauthor= -padding= -m FILE

You can do this at the same time you are stripping the thumbnail.

- Phil