updating Exiftool on a Mac

[J_ph]

do I need to uninstall Exiftool before I update to a new version?

thanks

j

[Phil Harvey]

No, not if you use the same installation method (ie. the OS X installer package).  If you use a different installation method then you run the risk of having multiple versions of exiftool on your system, which really isn't too bad except that unless you are careful you may not be running the version you expected.

- Phil

[J_ph]

Hi Phil

Thanks for the reply and for ExifTool. I installed it a while back and it's run fine with just changing the args files. I was going to update it just to keep it up to date. I don't remember how it was installed. Are there any markers/ folder structures that would indicate what installer I used?

regards

j

[Phil Harvey]

If you want to be sure, type the following in a Terminal window before and after updating ExifTool:

exiftool -ver
which exiftool

This will tell you the exiftool version and where it is installed.  If the location is the same and the version is correct after you do the update, then everything is good.  If you used the standard OS X package installation, which exiftool should return "/usr/bin/exiftool".

- Phil

[J_ph]

perfect! thanks again.