Newbie - I cant run Exiftools! Please Help

[Ines]

Hi all,

I'd kindly like some urgent help, I cannot run exiftools and the exiftools GUI for a project I need to submit imminently. When I attempt to run the GUI, I'm presented with the attached error message ..

I am using Windows 10. I've downloaded the windows version, unzipped the file, renamed it from "exiftool(-k) to "exiftool" as suggested by Bogdan Hrastnik.

Then I saved this file and the "exiftool files" to a new folder inside "application files" in my windows directory. Downloaded the GUI, saved it to a file outside of windows directory (my secondary stick drive), specified location of "exiftool" in preferences. Still have this problem!

A a newbie with no programming experience. Any help would be really appreciated. Thanks

[Phil Harvey]

Download and install this version of ExifTool, and it should work for you.

- Phil

[Ines]

That worked!
Thanks so much this was very helpful!. Out of curiosity, is it possible to add nonexisting tags to a pdf? I've been trying to add a "creator" (software) and "producer"(of the software) tag to this document to no avail...             

[Phil Harvey]

This should work for PDF from the command line:

exiftool -creator="some creator" -producer="some producer" FILE

I'm sure you can do it from the GUI as well.

- Phil

[FrankB]

Yes, you can.

1) From the workspace, that you can configure, to add the tags you need.
2) From ExifTool Direct.



But reading this thread I'm not convinced you're using the most recent version.
Download release: https://github.com/FrankBijnen/ExifToolGui/releases
Online Docs (A lot of text, but pays off reading): https://github.com/FrankBijnen/ExifToolGui/blob/main/Docs/ExifToolGUI_V6.md

Frank