Simple Removing Metadata from JPG files.

[bill77056]

Great program! I'm an EXIF Metadata newbie and just need to remove all metadata from digital photos that are shared. EXIFTOOL has removed some of the data in Properties but not all. Perhaps that is all to be expected. Any thoughts will be appreciated.

Using WIN7; running EXIFTOOL from Command Prompt w/Admin privilege
(exiftool –all= name.jpg)

Results with JPEG photo produced with Canon Power Shot G12:

PROPERTIES         Original           After EXIFTOOL
   Description      1 entry      Blank
   Origin         2 entries           Blank
     Image         9 entries           6 entries
   Camera         10 entries   Blank
   Adv Photo      3 entries           Blank
   File                 9 entries           9 entries

After processing, properties reports 15 entries that were not removed.

FWIW, EXIFTOOL did remove entries from Image and Camera that were left by the Win7 tool at the bottom of the Properties box.

Is this to be expected?

TIA... Bill

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Bill,

With JPG images, -all= will remove all of the metadata.  The only things left will be filesystem and image data.  All files have filesystem information.  And if you delete all the image data too, you will have no file left.

- Phil