Error Creating File

[JonAgain]

Hi Everyone, I am in need of some help.  I am able to scan and locate files with ancestor data but when I try to remove the ancestor data I receive an error.  Please note that '/Portfolio/Frank' is a mapped network location.  I made sure the user has read/write access.  Also a little background, I am running this from Ubuntu VM as windows had limitations with special characters as well as character count.  Some of the info has been altered for privacy.  Any help to get around this error would be much appreciated.


user@Server01:/bin$ ./exiftool -overwrite_original_in_place '$directory/$filename' -r -if '$documentancestors and (()=$documentancestors =~ /, /g) > 100' -documentancestors= '/home/user@domain.LAN/Documents/Portfolio/Frank'
Error: File not found - $directory/$filename
Error: Error creating file: /home/user@domain.LAN/Documents/Portfolio/Frank/test file 1-1.jpg_exiftool_tmp - /home/user@domain.LAN/Documents/Portfolio/Frank/test file 1-1.jpg
Error: Error creating file: /home/user@domain.LAN/Documents/Portfolio/Frank/test file 2-1.jpg_exiftool_tmp - /home/user@domain.LAN/Documents/Portfolio/Frank/test file 2-1.jpg

[Phil Harvey]

What are you trying to do with '$directory/$filename' ?  This argument is treated as a filename, hence the first warning.

The other problem is more serious, and I don't know how to work around it.  Somehow the Perl "open" function is not able to create the specified file.  This uses the standard C file i/o routines, so I would think that other things should fail too.  Can you simply copy a file to this name (the ".jpg_exiftool_tmp" name) using "cp" on the command line?

- Phil

[JonAgain]

I thought I had to '$directory/$filename' for it to be recursively process.  So are you saying I can just drop that and just use -r ?

In the meantime I figured out my problem.  I ran with elevated privileges and was able to update the files.  So this can pretty much be considered resolved.

[StarGeek]

So are you saying I can just drop that and just use -r ?

As long as you pass exiftool a directory.  You can't pass /path/to/files/*.jpg,  you would have to use -ext jpg /path/to/files/  See Common Mistake #2 and the -r (-recurse) option.