-r scanning says "file not found" for a particular file (command line works well

[dbareis]

This command normally works well, but is failing now, I suspect it would be something about the filename and not it's contents, let me know if you need the file:

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exiftool.exe -config exiftool.cfg -overwrite_original -preserve -progress  "-DateTimeOriginal<FileCreateDate" -if "(not $datetimeoriginal)" -r -ext JPG "s:/"
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Error: File not found - s:/2021-01-14 (scanned at 13 Berrima St, Lily)/[Circa 1975] B,L2R, Kid=Sonya Polzin, Marjorie Enid (Marge) Mollenhagen (born Buxton), Eva Anna Bertha Buxton (born Herrenberg), BR=baby Leslie + mother Barbara Polzin - Scanned at Lily's, Berrima St, Maroochydore on 14 JAN 2021 - 487.jpg
   16 directories scanned
  507 files failed condition
    0 image files read
    1 files could not be read

This is on 64 bit Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19042.746] and ExifTool version 12.12

[dbareis]

It may be a file length issue as I'm having similar problems with other commands now, this can be fixed (depending on which Windows api's you use) by prefixing filenames with "\\?\" as the following example shows dor a Windows 10 command line:

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S:\> dir "S:\2021-01-14 (scanned at 13 Berrima St, Lily)\[Circa 1975] B,L2R, Kid=Sonya Polzin, Marjorie Enid (Marge) Mollenhagen (born Buxton), Eva Anna Bertha Buxton (born Herrenberg), BR=baby Leslie + mother Barbara Polzin - Scanned at Lily's, Berrima St, Maroochydore on 14 JAN 2021 - 487.jpg"
Volume in drive S is DATA DRIVE.DB$
Volume Serial Number is EE20-9543

Directory of S:\2021-01-14 (scanned at 13 Berrima St, Lily)

File Not Found

S:\> dir "\\?\S:\2021-01-14 (scanned at 13 Berrima St, Lily)\[Circa 1975] B,L2R, Kid=Sonya Polzin, Marjorie Enid (Marge) Mollenhagen (born Buxton), Eva Anna Bertha Buxton (born Herrenberg), BR=baby Leslie + mother Barbara Polzin - Scanned at Lily's, Berrima St, Maroochydore on 14 JAN 2021 - 487.jpg"
Volume in drive \\?\S: is DATA DRIVE.DB$
Volume Serial Number is EE20-9543

Directory of \\?\S:\2021-01-14 (scanned at 13 Berrima St, Lily)

14/01/2021  03:13 PM           339,643 [Circa 1975] B,L2R, Kid=Sonya Polzin, Marjorie Enid (Marge) Mollenhagen (born Buxton), Eva Anna Bertha Buxton (born Herrenberg), BR=baby Leslie + mother Barbara Polzin - Scanned at Lily's, Berrima St, Maroochydore on 14 JAN 2021 - 487.jpg
               1 File(s)        339,643 bytes
               0 Dir(s)  922,269,483,008 bytes free

I tried adding it to the command line but that fails:

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exiftool.exe ...  "\\?\S:\2021-01-14 (scanned at 13 Berrima St, Lily)\*.jpg"
Wildcards don't work in the directory specification
No matching files

[Phil Harvey]

What does "\\?" mean at the start of the directory?  Unfortunately the Windows shells do not automatically glob filenames like other OS's so ExifTool must expand wildcards itself, and I don't know how to handle a "?" in a directory name.

- Phil

[dbareis]

depending on the API's used you just add it to the start of the filename and you won't get length issues etc:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/naming-a-file#win32-file-namespaces:~:text=For%20file%20I%2FO%2C%20the%20%22%5C%5C%3F%5C%22%20prefix,names%2C%20you%20can%20exceed%20the%20MAX_PATH

[Phil Harvey]

Thanks.  ExifTool doesn't handle that construct properly.

- Phil

[dbareis]

Yes, hopefully it can or at least use it when you are reading/writing individual files.