I am trying to get data from a folder containing about 2500 files and nothing seems to happen. I've tried on a smaller batch and it works fine. How do I know how long to wait or should I abort?
Add the -progress option to get an indication of how things are progressing.
Personally I use -progress: to get an indication in the title bar of my terminal.
- Phil
I left for three hours and it still had not finished. Checked task manager and saw no CPU usage so I killed it.
I copied all the files into another folder and it ran in about 8 seconds. I think we had a problem with the path
C:\Users\bd4\OneDrive - HydraForce Inc\Hydraforce Projects\CMS\Catalog GIF\epi (does not work)
C:\exiftool\test (worked)
same batch of 2368 images
Do you see an issue with the path above?
There have been problems in the past with remote mounted volumes in Windows. I don't know the reason for this. Other operating systems don't have this problem.
Oh, wait. Did you put quotes around the directory name? If not, it would hang on "-" because of the spaces between the words. "-" represents console input, and would wait for a CTRL-D from the keyboard
- Phil
That's the problem. THanks!
BTW, where is the full help file (url?) I tried to list it in the console but it's too darn long.
Here is the application documentation (https://exiftool.org/exiftool_pod.html) or download it in PDF form (https://exiftool.org/exiftool_pod.pdf).
- Phil