Question to -W directory\%f

[herb]

Hello Phil,

I am working with Exiftool 11.44 on a Windows 7 system.

After a long time I had to retest my application and I have the following finding:

In order to export tags into a sidecar file I have the following cases:
(a) export into a sidecar file to be created inside the current directory (=directory of source file) is done with options:
    -W %d%f.%e_%t   for embedded images
    -o %d%f.<extension>   for e.g. EXIF tags
(b) export into a sidecar file given with fully qualified path and filename is done with options:
    -W <path>\<file>.<extension>   for embedded images
    -o <path>\<file>.<extension>   for e.g. EXIF tags
(c) export into a sidecar file given with fully qualified directory-path and filename to be taken from source is done with options:
    -W <directory-path>\%f.<extension>   for embedded images
    -o <directory-path>\%f.<extension>   for e.g. EXIF tags

Cases (a) and (b) work as expected
But for case (c) I get errormessages like
- Error creating directory <directory>
- Error creating <file>
both with properly built names.
I get the errormessages also in case the directory does exist.


As said at the beginning I did not test my application for a longer time; but I remember that also case (c) was working properly.
Has something changed so that I have to correct/adapt my application or
is this an error in Exiftool?

Thanks for your help in advance
Best regards
Herb

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Herb,

If you get an error creating a directory and the directory name is properly formed and doesn't contain any special characters, then it must be a permission problem.  Be sure that you have write permission in the parent directory.

- Phil

[herb]

Hello Phil,

thanks for your quick reply and yes, I have all permissions.
Cases (a), (b) and (c) are tested within one login and also for case (b) directories are created as necessary.

Best regards
Herb

[herb]

Hello Phil,

In meantime I continued testing.
But first I want to give some additional information: my application starts Exiftool with -stay_open and sends all commands von pipe to stdin.
I performed my tests with *.jpg files and also with some FLIR jpg files.

Now I did also the tests using DOS-box only.
Here all directories and files are created as necessary.
But I have another finding: variable %t is ignored building the filename.

Sorry that I mentioned these details so late.

Thanks again in advance and
Best regards
Herb

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Herb,

Can you give me a command that I can use here to reproduce the effect you are seeing?

- Phil

[herb]

Hello Phil,

thanks that you will look into my problem. But this is not necessary any more. The problem was in front of the screen.

Today I repeated all tests from scratch within a new environment. After a long time of testing I found by accident that the directory name I used for this specific testcase contained a non printable - non visible - unicode control character. My text-editor ignored this character also.

So I have to say sorry that I started this post.

Thanks again and
Best regards
Herb

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Herb,

Great.  Glad this is solved.

- Phil