Image files disappear??

Started by inte, March 23, 2016, 02:12:52 PM

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inte

Ran a script to remove all metadata from image files, preserving only orientation and copyright:

exiftool -all= -tagsfromfile @ -Orientation -copyright=Name

After running the script, the new output files are not visible in the Finder - only the ones ending with ".jpg_original"

However, if I open the same directory in Adobe Bridge the files are there!
I have to click "reveal in finder" in Bridge for each image to make the file appear in the Finder window.

How/why can Bridge see the files but the Finder can't?

(Mac OS 10.11.3, Exiftool 10.13)

inte

UPDATE: two restarts of the Mac Pro and the script performs normally.

Bizarre... prior to the restarts, the files could be seen in Bridge, but not the Finder...

Phil Harvey

That is really odd.  I'm running OS X 10.10.5 on both of my development machines and have always experienced a tight integration between the filesystem and the Finder GUI.  Unless the system gets bogged down by a disk i/o bottleneck, I can't imagine how this could happen.  I don't know of any 10.11 problems that could explain this.

- Phil
...where DIR is the name of a directory/folder containing the images.  On Mac/Linux/PowerShell, use single quotes (') instead of double quotes (") around arguments containing a dollar sign ($).