DateTimeOriginal question

[tldean]

I was hoping somebody could help with this. I'm trying to set the datetimeoriginal tag to another value because the current value is incorrect. However, when I do that, I am getting the following error:

Error while attempting to call Image::ExifTool::SetNewValue
Image/ExifTool/Writer.pl did not return a true value at (eval 17) line 1.

To explain what happens, I first check the original value by entering:

exiftool -s3 -DateTimeOriginal "c:\Users\Me\Desktop\fix\pics\jpg\foo.jpg"

This returns the result which shows there is a problem with the current value:

1920:  :   00:00:00

I then try to use the following command which produces the above error:

exiftool -DateTimeOriginal="1920:01:01 00:00:00" "c:\Users\Me\Desktop\fix\pics\jpg\foo.jpg"

I've tried numerous variants of this command with no success.

I'm on Win8 using the latest version of exiftool.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Loren

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Loren,

Your ExifTool installation is corrupt.  Please uninstall and re-install as per the instructions here.  Often just deleting the temporary files and re-running will fix this problem.

- Phil

[tldean]

Uninstalling and reinstalling corrected the issue. Thank you very much!