How long does this take to run / did it crash?

[BenDupre]

I am trying to get data from a folder containing about 2500 files and nothing seems to happen. I've tried on a smaller batch and it works fine. How do I know how long to wait or should I abort?

[Phil Harvey]

Add the -progress option to get an indication of how things are progressing.

Personally I use -progress: to get an indication in the title bar of my terminal.

- Phil

[BenDupre]

I left for three hours and it still had not finished. Checked task manager and saw no CPU usage so I killed it.

I copied all the files into another folder and it ran in about 8 seconds. I think we had a problem with the path

C:\Users\bd4\OneDrive - HydraForce Inc\Hydraforce Projects\CMS\Catalog GIF\epi (does not work)
C:\exiftool\test (worked)

same batch of 2368 images

Do you see an issue with the path above?

[Phil Harvey]

There have been problems in the past with remote mounted volumes in Windows.  I don't know the reason for this.  Other operating systems don't have this problem.

Oh, wait.  Did you put quotes around the directory name?  If not, it would hang on "-" because of the spaces between the words.  "-" represents console input, and would wait for a CTRL-D from the keyboard

- Phil

[BenDupre]

That's the problem. THanks!

BTW, where is the full help file (url?) I tried to list it in the console but it's too darn long.

[Phil Harvey]

Here is the application documentation or download it in PDF form.

- Phil