Processing images in another directory

[ProAssist]

I am running exiftool from my program directory were I create 2 files, one is a list of photo files in a differant directory and the other is a json file with metadata tags for each photo in the photo directory with SourceFile = FileName.jpg specified for each file.  Is there any way to specify the photo directory so that I could run the command: "C:\Program Directory\exiftool.exe" -json=metadata.json -@ listoffiles.txt and have exiftool be able to find the files in the photo directory?

Thanks

[Phil Harvey]

If you run the command from inside the directory containing the images, and remove the directory names from the listoffiles.txt, then I think it should work.

- Phil

[ProAssist]

The photo directory is shared with the users and I do not want them to have access to the exiftool program or have them see the temporary txt and json files I am creating.  Is there any way for me to create these files in my program directory and then run exiftool to process files in the photo directory?

[Hayo Baan]

Sure, just make sure to do as Phil suggested and run the exiftool command from the photo directory and specify the exact location of the json and filelist files e.g.:

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cd C:\PHOTODIR
C:\Program Directory\exiftool.exe -json=C:\TEMP\metadata.json -@ C:\TEMP\listoffiles.txt

Hope this helps,
Hayo

[ProAssist]

I had my program create a script to run exiftool

@Echo off
<Change Drives>
<Change Path>
C:\Program Directory\exiftool.exe -json=C:\TEMP\metadata.json -@ C:\TEMP\listoffiles.txt

It works - Thank you for your help.

[Hayo Baan]

Excellent, good to hear it worked