First: You have built quite the tool. It's a bit daunting at first to use it (tried a number of time over the past 10+ years). Thanks for your hard work!!
Second: My question: From previous posts I've come up with the following command line exiftool -filename -gpslatitude -gpslongitude -T -n "C:\Users\D\Pictures\2019-03" > C:\Users\D\Desktop\out.txt
All I get is a blank out.txt file (on my desktop)
I've tried the -n parameter in a couple of different spots
I've tried using quotes or no quotes
The pictures in the directory do have GPS coords
The "drop picture" on exiftool(-k -gpslatitude -gpslongitude).exe works with multiple pictures but not in dec deg format.
Sorry for asking such a basic question -I think I'm close
Cheers, Doug
Hi Doug,
Your command looks good. I don't see any way the output txt file could be blank unless you got a message like "file not found", or "bad command" or something like that.
What happens if you just type "exiftool" on the command line? Did you install ExifTool for command-line use (steps 1-4) (https://exiftool.org/install.html#Windows)?
- Phil
Thanks for the very fast reply!
Yes, I followed the steps suggested, Only difference is that I put it in the System32 folder (but that's also in my PATH)
I may run a test with just a couple of known .jpg files in another folder.
Ran the test - same result.
No errors in the command window.
Ran rather fast - like instantly? My hardware's pretty good, but not that good!
What is the output if you run just exiftool without any parameters?
Problem solved!
Thanks all for your replies!
I went back and followed your installation procedure exactly this time, checking each step (by running exiftool).
The problem manifested itself when I installed exiftool in the Windows\System32 folder instead of the Windows folder!
When I installed exiftool in the Windows folder, my simple script worked.
Grrr! So much for creativity - my stupid!!! (must be a Win10 quirk, since the System32 folder contains a bunch of .exe files and is in the PATH???)
Cheers, Doug