ultra-newbie question

[inte]

Have found a large amount of good information on how to go about accomplishing various things with the software .... my question is vastly more basic - where is the software?

Downloaded/installed ExifTool - what's the next step? (Where is it on the hard drive, how it it launched?)

The only process I need to do with the software is remove ALL metadata (including ISO, f-stop, shutter speed). If this is a command-line process, what's the process?

[Phil Harvey]

Just download the Windows ExifTool zip file, extract "exiftool(-k).exe", then drag and drop an image file on it to extract the metadata.

To remove the metadata from the dropped file, change the name of exiftool to "exiftool(-all= -k).exe" then do the same thing.

- Phil

[inte]

Is there a way to do this with Mac?

Also have several thousand images to remove metadata from - is there a way to batch process instead of one at a time?

[Phil Harvey]

Ah, sorry.   On the mac:

1) Open a Terminal window (Applications/Terminal).

2) Type "exiftool" then a SPACE.

3) Drag and drop a file onto the Terminal window

4) Press RETURN on the keyboard.

This will show you the metadata.  To delete it all, do the same thing but type "exiftool -all=" then a SPACE before dropping the file.

- Phil

[inte]

Drag/drop a file into the terminal window and a path appears.

Press return ... "pattern not found (press RETURN)"

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Not sure what "pattern" refers to. Also, is there a way to batch process several hundred/thousand images, versus doing one at a time?

[Phil Harvey]

Did you type "exiftool" and SPACE first?  (No RETURN)

- Phil

Edit: before you press return, the command should look something like this:

exiftool /Users/phil/Desktop/image.jpg

Edit2: I didn't answer your question about the 1000's of files.  To do this, drop the folder containing the files instead of the file itself.