Working with files with double extensions

[pantss]

Hi. First of all big thanks for the tool. Used it to update the dates of my iphone photo imports.

Managed to change .jpg, mov, png.

How do I change Live Photos thumbnails with extension .THM.jpg ?

While this works:
exiftool -TagsFromFile %d%f.mov '-MDItemFSCreationdate<CreationDate' -P -ext .jpg

This doesn't:
exiftool -TagsFromFile %d%f.mov '-MDItemFSCreationdate<CreationDate' -P -ext .THM.jpg

[Phil Harvey]

Your command would try to copy tags from FILENAME.THM.mov files.

Try this to ignore the last 4 characters of the file name:

exiftool -TagsFromFile %d%-.4f.mov '-MDItemFSCreationdate<CreationDate' -P -ext .THM.jpg

- Phil

[pantss]

Hmm. I can't seem to get it to work.

1 directories scanned
0 image files read

I am actually trying to copy tags from .mov onto .THM.jpg with the same file name.
Also, if possible, I do not wish to edit FILENAME.jpg, only FILENAME.THM.jpg

Thanks again!

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Tried these but failed.
exiftool -TagsFromFile %d%-.4f.mov '-MDItemFSCreationdate<CreationDate' -P -ext .THM.jpg
exiftool -TagsFromFile %d%f.mov '-MDItemFSCreationdate<CreationDate' -P -ext %-.4f.jpg

And most permutations of
%-.4f.jpg
%-4f.jpg
-4%f.jpg
%-4.f.jpg
-%4.f.jpg

[Phil Harvey]

I should have tried this myself.  The problem is that -ext .THM.jpg doesn't work because the extension is actually ".jpg".  Try this:

exiftool -TagsFromFile %d%-.4f.mov '-MDItemFSCreationdate<CreationDate' -P -ext .jpg DIR

This will also scan all regular ".jpg" files, but it won't find matching .mov files for these so it should be OK and won't slow things down too much.

- Phil

[pantss]

Thanks! Worked.