How to delete ALL tags, that can be deleted ...

Started by Juggernaut, June 04, 2018, 07:12:33 AM

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Juggernaut

What is command-line command to delete ALL tags, that can be deleted ?

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Also, I wonder - can I create non-jpg tag for .jpg file?
For example, there are a lot of SPECIFIC tags for videos, so can I make exiftool to force-create specific video tags to JPG file?
And if yes, what the effects would it cause?
Will it somehow damage this JPG file?.. Causing videoplayers wouldn't open it?

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And one more... is there a shortcut for command-line that can show all possible tags for specific extension .JPG , .PNG , .MP4 , etc. ?..
So, I will see the full list of recommended supported tags and will not make a mistake...
Because there are in total 14 000 tags, and it's really a big problem to find out what tags belong to what extensions...

Phil Harvey

Quote from: Juggernaut on June 04, 2018, 07:12:33 AM
What is command-line command to delete ALL tags, that can be deleted ?

exiftool -all= FILE

QuoteAlso, I wonder - can I create non-jpg tag for .jpg file?
For example, there are a lot of SPECIFIC tags for videos, so can I make exiftool to force-create specific video tags to JPG file?
And if yes, what the effects would it cause?
Will it somehow damage this JPG file?.. Causing videoplayers wouldn't open it?

You can write many different metadata formats to JPEG, but a robust JPEG viewer would be able to view them no matter what you wrote.

QuoteAnd one more... is there a shortcut for command-line that can show all possible tags for specific extension .JPG , .PNG , .MP4 , etc. ?..

No.

- 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 ($).

Juggernaut

Quote from: Phil Harvey on June 04, 2018, 07:18:51 AM
Quote from: Juggernaut on June 04, 2018, 07:12:33 AM
QuoteAlso, I wonder - can I create non-jpg tag for .jpg file?
For example, there are a lot of SPECIFIC tags for videos, so can I make exiftool to force-create specific video tags to JPG file?
And if yes, what the effects would it cause?
Will it somehow damage this JPG file?.. Causing videoplayers wouldn't open it?

You can write many different metadata formats to JPEG, but a robust JPEG viewer would be able to view them no matter what you wrote.

- Phil

Wow, you are so fast. The fastest support I've ever seen.

Sorry, what I did want to ask you - is it possible somehow to "kill" (damage) video file (.avi, mp4, .mkv, etc...) by creating
for them tags, that belong to absolutely another group of files, like images, music, pdf, etc... ?

Or those "non-belong" tags will not make any errors, and will not cause any changes to playback, and they will be just like "scratches on the car"?

Phil Harvey

Quote from: Juggernaut on June 04, 2018, 07:27:54 AM
is it possible somehow to "kill" (damage) video file (.avi, mp4, .mkv, etc...) by creating
for them tags, that belong to absolutely another group of files, like images, music, pdf, etc... ?

ExifTool can only add XMP tags to video files, so you shouldn't be able to use ExifTool to kill a video.

I can't say about other utilities.

- 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 ($).