How do I copy files with tags only from the specified group?

[dwlott]

Hey guys,
I want to copy files with minimal meta and the GPS group, but this command is copying all tags.  Please help.

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-TagsFromFile
@
-EXIF:GPS:All
E:\mySourceFolder\Srcfile_1.JPG
E:\mySourceFolder\Srcfile_2.JPG
-o
e:\myTargetFolder\%f.%e

[StarGeek]

You aren't clearing any information.  By itself, the -o (-out) option will create a copy of the file with no alterations to the metadata.  The -TagsFromFile option here is simply copying the GPS data back into the file and this doesn't affect any of the other information in the file.

Try

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-All=
-TagsFromFile
@
-EXIF:GPS:All
E:\mySourceFolder\Srcfile_1.JPG
E:\mySourceFolder\Srcfile_2.JPG
-o
e:\myTargetFolder\%f.%e

[dwlott]

Thank you StarGeek, that worked well.
I tried to use the same command to make sidecar files, changing only the extension name.  But exiftool is returning this error:

Error: Nothing to write - E:/mySourceFolder/Srcfile_1.JPG
Error: Nothing to write - E:/mySourceFolder/Srcfile_2.JPG
    0 image files updated
    2 files weren't updated due to errors

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-All=
-TagsFromFile
@
-EXIF:GPS:All
E:\mySourceFolder\Srcfile_1.JPG
E:\mySourceFolder\Srcfile_2.JPG
-o
e:\myTargetFolder\%f.xmp


[Phil Harvey]

You can't write EXIF-format to an XMP file.  Unfortunately the GPS in XMP format is organized a bit differently, which makes things a bit more complicated.  To copy to XMP, you should replace

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-EXIF:GPS:All
with

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-@
gps2xmp.args
You can get gps2xmp.args here.

- Phil

[dwlott]

The translation args file worked great for me.  Thank you Phil.

[dwlott]

Good news.  I studied  more and I got this to work for me to copy only the GPS group.

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-TagsFromFile
@
-EXIF:GPS:All
e:\mySourceFolder\SrcFile_1.JPG
e:\mySourceFolder\SrcFile_3.JPG
-o
e:\myTargetFolder\%f.exif