Imported paths are not completely overwritten

[Nico99]

Hi Phil
imagine the following situation:

I have an image that contains the following paths:

• Path7d0 - named "Path1"
• Path7d1 - named "Path2"
• Path7d2 - named "Path3"

then I have an exv file that contains the following paths:

• Path7d0 - named "Path2"
• Path7d1 - named "Path3"

If I use the following command:

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exiftool -config config/photoshop_paths.config -overwrite_original -tagsfromfile mynewpaths.exv -allpaths# myimage.tif

to import the path listed in the exv file into the image, the result will be an image with the following list of paths:

• Path7d0 - named "Path2" <-- imported
• Path7d1 - named "Path3" <-- imported
• Path7d2 - named "Path3" <-- originally in the image

The consequence of this is that there are two paths with the same name (Path3), situation not permitted in PS. A part from this, my expectation using -overwrite_original is to get an image with only the paths I've imported.

To solve this problem I would suggest to remove all the paths from the target image before importing the new list of paths.
What do you think ?
Thanks
Nico

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Niko,

If you want to delete existing paths then copy paths from another file, do this:

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exiftool -config config/photoshop_paths.config -overwrite_original -allpaths= -tagsfromfile mynewpaths.exv -allpaths# myimage.tif

But you should also copy the OriginPathInfo when copying paths, so the command should be:

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exiftool -config config/photoshop_paths.config -overwrite_original -allpaths= -tagsfromfile mynewpaths.exv -allpaths# -originpathinfo myimage.tif

- Phil

[Nico99]

Hi Phil
it works! Thanks a lot.
Nico