backup files: *.mie and *.exv

[herb]

Hello Phil,

Looking for a filetype to backup all available tags I came to know these types: *.mie and *.exv.

StarGeek has created a MetadataTestFile.args that creates many many tags in all commonly used tag-groups.
I assign these tags to a test.jpg file and made 2 backups: test.mie and test.exv.

A short quickcheck showed that test.mie did not contain ducky-tags and also tag -file:comment.
It is unclear to me why we have this difference.

Thanks in advance
Best regards
herb

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Herb,

What command did you use?  You will likely need to add a few arguments to copy missing tags that you are interested in.

- Phil

[herb]

Hello Phil,

thanks for your quick reply

To create the backup files I used the following commands:

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exiftool.exe -use mwg -o %d%f.%e.mie -all:all -unsafe testimage.jpg
exiftool.exe -use mwg -o %d%f.%e.exv -all:all -unsafe testimage.jpg
Then I exported it into a textfile using e.g.

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exiftool.exe -a -g0:1 -all:all testimage.jpg.mie >out_mie.txt
and compared both (*.mie and *.exv) files tag-group by taggroup.

So I found that out_mie.txt did not contain ducky-tags and also tag -file:comment.

Best regards
herb

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Herb,

Sorry for the delay in responding.  It is true that I haven't pre-defined any MIE tags to store "ducky" information.  And the File:Comment would need to be copied to MIE:Comment.

- Phil