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ExifTool => Newbies => Topic started by: jillc on January 10, 2019, 04:06:13 PM

Title: output log for post processing review
Post by: jillc on January 10, 2019, 04:06:13 PM
ExifTool is a fantastic tool, and we are happy to discover its power.

We would like to generate a line of output for skipped files, such as when ExifTool hits a MS Word file, corrupted file or any other files that are skipped and include the file path and file name. 

Any help would be appreciated.  Thank you.
Title: Re: output log for post processing review
Post by: Phil Harvey on January 10, 2019, 09:53:33 PM
ExifTool does read MS Word files.

But if you want it to print a message about unknown file types and other errors, you can do this:

exiftool -error -ext "*" DIR

- Phil
Title: Re: output log for post processing review
Post by: jillc on January 21, 2019, 10:54:48 PM
Thank you Phil for your input and quick response!  This worked exactly as we needed.