Remove all metadata

[smashed_penguin]

Remove all metadata command:

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-all= does not remove APP14 (Adobe) block metadata, the separate command:

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-Adobe:all= must be used to do so. Why? Should "all" not remove ALL

ExifTool Version: 12.68
System: Windows 10 19045.3636

[Phil Harvey]

The APP14 block contains image-related data, not metadata.  If you delete this then you may mess up the colours of the image.  Read here and here for an example of what can happen.

- Phil

[StarGeek]

The Adobe block doesn't contain any data that can be used to identify where it comes from.  There's no reason to remove it.

[smashed_penguin]

The Adobe block doesn't contain any data that can be used to identify where it comes from.  There's no reason to remove it.

You say that but the reason I originally asked this was because I had a series of images that contained some type of identifying information, I don't remember what it was exactly Artist or Date, some type of what I would call "basic info" in the APP14 block (seen via the metadata panel, in the ExifTool tab in digiKam) that wasn't being updated along with the others i.e. EXIF, IPTC, XMP. Could it be that this information was incorrectly written there originally?

[Phil Harvey]

I think you are mistaken.  ExifTool will not extract metadata like this from any APP14 segment.

- Phil

[StarGeek]

You say that but the reason I originally asked this was because I had a series of images that contained some type of identifying information

Can you share such an image?