Deleting thumbnails

Started by Bilge, January 27, 2013, 01:21:19 PM

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Bilge

Hi,

I thought it was possible to delete thumbnails with ExifTool. However, using the command

-PhotoshopThumbnail= -ThumbnailOffset= -ThumbnailLength= -OtherImageStart= -OtherImageLength=

I receive the following warnings:

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Warning: Sorry, PhotoshopThumbnail is not writable
Warning: Sorry, ThumbnailOffset is protected for writing
Warning: Sorry, ThumbnailLength is protected for writing
Warning: Sorry, OtherImageStart is protected for writing
Warning: Sorry, OtherImageLength is protected for writing

How can I remove these?

Many thanks.

Phil Harvey

Try -thumbnailimage=.  This should work for thumbnails.  I'm not sure how much success you will have with the other images though.

- Phil
...where DIR is the name of a directory/folder containing the images.  On Mac/Linux/PowerShell, use single quotes (') instead of double quotes (") around arguments containing a dollar sign ($).