Clarification after moving a lot of files

[lumiere]

I have run exiftool on quite big folder with the following parameters:

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exiftool -progress --ext pdf -api QuickTimeUTC '-CreateDate<DateTimeOriginal' '-FileModifyDate<DateTimeOriginal'  '-filename<CreateDate' '-filename<DateTimeOriginal' -d target/pictures/%Y/%m/%d/%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M:%S%%+c.%%e -r source -overwrite_original
...
...
20357 directories scanned
3 directories created
7 image files updated
107881 image files unchanged
213 files weren't updated due to errors

How do I know which are those files in each category (with errors, unchanged, updated etc) ?

[StarGeek]

For the errors, there should have been a message on the command line.

The -progress option will give you info as exiftool processes the files.  Ones with no changes will return a Nothing changed in message.

There's also the -efile option.  Add -efile3 errors.txt and exiftool will write the names of files that gave errors or were unchanged.

[lumiere]

I have thousands of files processed and monitoring all of the messages live would be difficult.
Thanks for the -efile3 errors.txt tip - will use it from now on.