"Bending the rules" -- making an unwritable tag writable (temporarily at least)

Started by L_Carver, November 03, 2016, 02:14:17 PM

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L_Carver

I seem to recall you could do this with Exiftool, but I've forgotten where the reference was (it may have been in a thread in this forum).

Anyone care to point me in the right direction?

Carver
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StarGeek

Adding -m to the command line will allow exiftool to ignore minor warnings.  Actual errors will still be skipped.

Nevermind, misread the question.
"It didn't work" isn't helpful. What was the exact command used and the output.
Read FAQ #3 and use that cmd
Please use the Code button for exiftool output

Please include your OS/Exiftool version/filetype

Phil Harvey

You can make any tag writable with the appropriate definition in a config file as long as the metadata group supports writing.  See the sample config file for more information.

- 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 ($).