not at all a bug, but a syntax error

[Game Continues]

Just happened upon exiftool, thinking, "I surely don't have to write something to retain my Google Photo pic data, do I?"  I was very pleased to find your program, it's far more than I imagined.  Your help file, accessed via the Windows command line, was very impressive - good for you.  Haven't used it yet, but I did notice and wanted to correct your man text, that you indicated the args to be extracted from the file name should be contained within brackets, though your example, exiftool(-k).exe, uses parentheses.  Also, in your forum registration, second question, you meant to write "second-to-last word."  I hope I can contribute something of greater substance in the future.  Again, (apparently very) well done!

[greybeard]

From Wikipedia "In most English-speaking countries, an unqualified 'bracket' refers to the round bracket"

[Phil Harvey]

I agree with Greybeard about the brackets.

I've changed the security question, thanks.

- Phil

[StarGeek]

Just happened upon exiftool, thinking, "I surely don't have to write something to retain my Google Photo pic data, do I?" 

One very important fact to take note of is that Google Photos did not remove any data that was in the file when you uploaded it. So unless you added data through the Google Photos web site, you do not need to rewrite the json data into the images.

[Alan Clifford]

() Brackets
{} Curly brakets
[] Square brackets
<> These are not brackets

Probably all wrong but for all my life, () have been brackets.

[StarGeek]

Interesting, this the first time I've heard parentheses called brackets. And I've always heard the curly brackets called braces.  Might be U.S. English thing.  This site separates them into American and British English.  And another site that uses braces and parentheses.

[MrVideo]

From Wikipedia "In most English-speaking countries, an unqualified 'bracket' refers to the round bracket"

I've never called the ( and ) characters "round brackets."  I've never heard them called that either. I've always called them parentheses.

[MrVideo]

Interesting, this the first time I've heard parentheses called brackets. And I've always heard the curly brackets called braces.  Might be U.S. English thing.  This site separates them into American and British English.  And another site that uses braces and parentheses.

Ditto.

[Alan Clifford]

Braces are worn/fixed to your teeth.  Or they hold up your trousers.  No, not your pants.  Pants are worn under trousers.  But I digress.  You might call braces "suspenders".  No, suspenders hold up women's stockings.   

[StarGeek]

By the same token, brackets are used to support something, such as a ceiling or a shelf or car suspension.

[Alan Clifford]

I love the differences in various Englishes.   I came across the word "Octroi" in Pakistan.  It's a legitimate word in English English but we don't use it.