Invalid PrintIM Header

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[Originally posted by kronkelaar on 2009-05-15 07:51:06-07]

After two days of hard learning I did contruct next codeline wich seems to do what I want. I have two folders in dir 'Exif': 'orig' and ' kopie'. In both folders are .jpg files, in 'orig' they are named like '015393.jpg, in 'kopie' they have names like '015393-PS1-different-keywords.jpg'. I want to copy almost all metainfo from 'orig'-files to 'copy'-files, but I want thumbnails and orientation in 'copyu'files to stay intact.

This is my codeline at the moment:

exiftool -TagsFromFile G:/Exif/orig/%6f.jpg -all:all --thumbnailimage --orientation -ext jpg G:/Exif/kopie/

It does almost do what I want, but I get the message 'Invalid PrintIM Header' on the first line. After that everything seems to work fine. Is this message something to take serious?

The JPG files are from Olympus E620, developed RAW (ORF) files in Olympus Studio 2 software.

I'd like to end this posting with my big compliments to this incredible versatile piece of software and it's builder.

Thanks,

Bas Dekker
Steenwijk
Netherlands
basdekker.eu

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[Originally posted by kronkelaar on 2009-05-15 07:56:03-07]

I see the markup of my posting is horrible because I did oversee thee need of
. My apologies for that.

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[Originally posted by exiftool on 2009-05-15 11:26:41-07]

Hi Bas,

Great job with the command line.  It is nice to see that
some people read the docs.

It sounds like something has written corrupted the PrintIM
information in at least one of your files, hopefully in a copy.
The original E-620 images shouldn't have this problem.
This is not serious, but you might want to look into this
in more detail to see if you can figure out what happened.
Try running "exiftool -warning" on all your files to see which
files produce warnings.

If it is a copy file that had the problem, the exiftool command
you ran should copy the good PrintIM from the original and
fix this problem.

- Phil

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[Originally posted by kronkelaar on 2009-05-15 19:31:40-07]

It's good to read this is not such a serious problem, at least not for me ;-)

I did run the warning command on some files and could nail it down to Exifer. Out of the camera the files are good, but after deleting the factory description in the exif tag 'description' the corruption is there. Exifer was part of my previous workflow and is useless anyway when working with Exiftool.

I think everything is fine now, thanks again very much for this piece of software and for your very quick reply!

Greetings, Bas