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charlesleroi

August 03, 2020, 12:16:09 PM
Hi everybody!

I changed the author metadata of a pdf with exiftool and deleted the original pdf.
Is it possible to restore the original author data?

Kind regards,
Charles

StarGeek

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August 03, 2020, 12:37:35 PM
See the third paragraph on the PDF tags page.

Using -PDF-update:all= will remove any updates that exiftool has made as long as the PDF hasn't been processed by another program.  I'm guessing that you could use -PDF-update:Author= to restore just the Author tag, though I haven't tested it.
"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

charlesleroi

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August 03, 2020, 01:21:12 PM
Thanks, that worked!

Phil Harvey

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August 03, 2020, 09:32:13 PM
Quote from: StarGeek on August 03, 2020, 12:37:35 PM
I'm guessing that you could use -PDF-update:Author= to restore just the Author tag, though I haven't tested it.

No.  You can only revert all changes, not individual tags like this.

- 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 ($).

StarGeek

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August 03, 2020, 10:28:12 PM
Good to know.
"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
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