Dear Community,
this is my first post so please bare with me... i think exiftool is the key here for my solution but i am not really ready , maybe you can help
i used picasa (version 2 until final version) on my pc...the software, not the cloud stuff.... i scanned for faces, tagged a lot of files and made the MISTAKE to write the information INTO the jpg files... so when i send pictures to my relatives they might (or probably wont, cause they are noobs) see the nicknames i used for some people in order to tag my collection.... the bigger problem for me is the personal data aspect as i would maybe send files to someone and there are names written readable IN the files... so i tought to myself "remove all those tags with picasa again" ... this seems to NOT work... i still find alot of jpg files with xmp info where the names are in.... (i see that with exiftool gui when navigating through some foldes)
now i have 2 questions: is it possible with exiftoolsgui to see only images that HAVE an XMP metadata ? this would help me to search for all potential nameholding pictures
the second question would be how i can batch remove all the face tags (at least the names) in the xmp metadata... i dont want to remove the whole metadata maybe only the names (so the faces are still included as a region but anonymously
i hope i could make myself clear with my bad english... thanks in advance...and stay safe
I can't help with the first question, as the GUI doesn't work on my computer. In case you didn't see, the GUI no longer has support (https://exiftool.org/forum/index.php?topic=4553.0) by it's author.
If you want to completely remove the face regions, you can type this into the "Exiftool direct"
-XMP-mwg-rs:all=
To just remove the names and leave the rest of the region info, you can use
-RegionName=
thanks for your answer...your second command sounds like what i want to do over all my jpgs so how would i proceed ?
what is the exact syntax if i want to tell exiftoll my main folder to scan alls subfolders for jpg files and remove the region names ?
i tried : exiftool -RegionName= "mainfolder\*.jpg" -> this resulted in exactlyx as i thought, removing all regionnames in all jpgs...but how would i make this recursive from my main folder to all subdirectories ? and is it possible to skip creating a backup original file ?
thanks
With the gui, no idea.
In CMD, you would use this
exiftool -RegionName= -ext jpg -r /path/to/Files/
If you have files with a jpeg extension, add -ext jpeg
This command creates backup files. Add -Overwrite_Original (https://exiftool.org/exiftool_pod.html#overwrite_original) to suppress the creation of backup files. Add -P (preserve) option (https://exiftool.org/exiftool_pod.html#P--preserve) if you don't want the systems FileModifyDate to change.
thanks alot...worked like a charm... cant believe this is done in seconds when i am trying for WEEKS now otherwise :D