Handling Large Number of Files

[pwade]

Hi,

I'm trying to use Exiftool to extract color mode information from 18k+ files.  It seems to hang after just a few seconds.  I've been going through the docs to see if I can get it to output results as it goes, or at least show me a progress indicator so i know it's still process.  It goes to zero percent CPU in task manager, but it does that when running smaller batches as well, and then kicks off again.

Any suggestions on how to get data from a large number of files like this?

Thanks!
Paul

[pwade]

I got this sorted.  I wasn't using the -ext option, which I think was causing it to take a long time to get the file list.