what does [...] mean?

[odklizec]

Hi folks,

I guess this will be an easy one. In some of the exported exif tags, I got this [...]

For example...
Subdir 0x0010             : [...]
or...
Subdir 0x001a             : 3 150 1 87 2 66 0 3 17 0 0 1 0 63 0 17 0 17 1 250 2 86 [...]

What does that mean? Thank you in advance!

[Phil Harvey]

It means there is more data like this that is not being displayed.  ExifTool truncates long lines of unknown data and adds this to the end of the line so you know the line was truncated.

- Phil

[odklizec]

Thank you for reply Phil! I was afraid of such answer. Is there a way to tell the Exiftool to display all data? I'm working on decrypting some unknown tags and as you may understand the truncated data are not very helpful in my effort

The strange thing is that in case of first example (Subdir 0x0010) there are no other data before the [...]? So what's exactly truncated?

Thank you for your help and great tool!

[Phil Harvey]

For most tags, the truncation is done in the print conversion, so the -n option may be used to see the entire data.  For the Subdir 0x0010 case, the data is truncated but then many of the characters are not displayable ASCII (ie. this will happen if the data is all zero bytes -- you can use the -v3 or -v4 options to view the data in binary).

I would be happy if you let me know about any new information you are able to decode.

Good luck!

- Phil

[odklizec]

Thanks Phil! -n helped! I will of course inform you about my findings.