I am trying to learn how to use the tool and am using terminal mode on a mac with lion
I key this into the terminal window then press the return key
exiftool -use MWG -enveloperecordversion=4 -City="Lexington" -Copyright="Roger W. Wells" -Country="United States" -Creator="Roger W. Wells" -Description="Roger Wayne Wells (W1)" -Keywords="Genealogy" -Location="3316 Mathern Trail" -Orientation="1" -Rating=1 -State="Kentucky" /Users/rogerwells/Desktop/MetadataProject/ATT2.jpg
I get this back:
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Rogers-iMac:~ rogerwells$ exiftool -use MWG -enveloperecordversion=4 -City="Lexington" -Copyright="Roger W. Wells" -Country="United States" -Creator="Roger W. Wells" -Description="Roger Wayne Wells (W1)" -Keywords="Genealogy" -Location="3316 Mathern Trail" -Orientation="1" -Rating=1 -State="Kentucky" /Users/rogerwells/Desktop/MetadataProject/ATT2.jpg
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I was expecting it to make a duplicate of ATT2.jpg and then change ATT2.jpg but nothing happens except I get back the above back so I must be doing something wrong.
If I key in exiftool /Users/rogerwells/Desktop/MetadataProject/ATT2.jpg and press the return key I get back the list of the metadata information like I expect.
Hopefully someone can set me straight.
Thanks
Rogerf
Hi Rogerf,
Everything looks good except for the funny quotes in your post.
Try copying and pasting this into your terminal window:
exiftool -use MWG -enveloperecordversion=4 -City="Lexington" -Copyright="Roger W. Wells" -Country="United States" -Creator="Roger W. Wells" -Description="Roger Wayne Wells (W1)" -Keywords="Genealogy" -Location="3316 Mathern Trail" -Orientation="1" -Rating=1 -State="Kentucky" /Users/rogerwells/Desktop/MetadataProject/ATT2.jpg
(click "[select]" above, then copy and paste into Terminal)
If this doesn't work, try a simple "exiftool -ver" and tell me what happens.
- Phil
Your right it is the funny quotes.
Thanks I will return I am sure with other questions.
Roger