"Supplemental Categories" in xmp data

Started by cdubea, August 19, 2023, 09:39:19 AM

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cdubea

In my history of DAM-ing, I've gone through the following progression:

  • iMatch
  • Media Pro
  • LightRoom
  • and now DigiKam (DK)

In this progression, I've gathered a number of "Supplemental Categories" in the XMP data that DK will read. Unfortunately, they are leftovers from the various migrations, and are poorly formed.

All my images are in one folder, organized in subfolders by date, month, etc.

Is there a handy dandy way of using exiftool to delete all the "Supplemental Categories" in all the xmp and jpg files?

Thank you in advance!

chris
Chris

Phil Harvey

Hi Chris,

Here is the command:

exiftool -supplementalcategories= -ext xmp -ext jpg DIR

- 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 ($).

cdubea

Chris