Max # of files that can be processed at one time?

[Knotical]

Hello folks,

Brand new user to ExifTool & the GUI but it's helping me a lot. I think it can help me even more though.

So far I am mostly using the following commands:

• Workspace Manager feature to update Artist, Copyright, Event, Location, etc.
• Various > File: Date modified as in Exif ...
• Modify > Exif: DateTime shift . . . (Set the date wrong - 1 year off)

When I take my camera out, I usually come back with a few thousand images.  More than most folks, I realize, so a tool like this has great value to me.  But I'm having a problem.  The GUI hangs up if I try to process too many images at a time.

With Workspace Manager, I can only select and process 300 images at a time. Any more than than that and it hangs with 0 cpu used and I have to kill the process and restart the program.

With the Date operations I can only select and process ~ 400 files at a time.

I'm using a 2.7~3.4GHz quad-core i7, 8GB RAM machine so processing power shouldn't be an issue. Processing 300~400 images at a time is better than nothing but I'd rather do them all at once.

If I'm doing something wrong or missing some option, could someone let me know?

Regards,
Knotical

[Phil Harvey]

It might help if you select the directory instead of the individual images.

- Phil

[Knotical]

It might help if you select the directory instead of the individual images.

- Phil

Great suggestion but that doesn't seem to be possible in the GUI.

If I select the folder, I can see all the files in the folder but the last three menu options are dimmed so date operations are out. Regarding Workspace Manager, without a file selected, no fields are visible so I can't right click on a field and tell it to Fill in default values. I guess those fields are associated with the files in the folder and not the folder itself.

What shall I try next?
EDIT: I don't have to stick with the GUI but it seemed wise for a beginner with the tool.

[Phil Harvey]

I can't help with the GUI, but you can specify a directory with the command-line application.

On the command line there is no limit to the number of files, but Windows does have a limit on the maximum length of a command.  (Mac and Linux do not have this limit.)

- Phil