newguy questions- can I edit without creating the

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[Originally posted by exifnoobie on 2007-06-19 00:34:02-07]

although I was a little nervous about not having a GUI, I've found exiftool to be extremely useful and easy, thank you!

since I'm already performing the edits on copies of the originals, can I make the changes to the files without exiftool creating the backup file? It's easier for me to not have to pickout the backups within a folder of batched images.

thanks,  j

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[Originally posted by exiftool on 2007-06-19 11:37:51-07]

You can add the -overwrite_original option to the command
line (or in brackets to the name of the stand-alone executable) to
prevent the original file from being preserved.

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[Originally posted by exifnoobie on 2007-06-20 15:46:58-07]

thanks that worked great, with that info I was able to find "overwrite_original_in_place" too.

Is it true that Shortcut tags are not writable?  for example:     -MyShortcut=   will not work? or is there a method of defining this new group as writable?

thanks again,

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[Originally posted by exiftool on 2007-06-20 15:58:16-07]

Shortcuts can be written as if they were a normal tag.

See the https://exiftool.org/TagNames/Shortcuts.html" target="_blank">shortcuts page.

- Phil

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[Originally posted by exifnoobie on 2007-06-20 16:26:23-07]

my fault.... I should have mentioned "user defined" shortcut tags in a .Exiftool_config file. Should these also be writable?

thanks,

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[Originally posted by exiftool on 2007-06-20 16:49:23-07]

Yes.  User-defined shortcuts are writable just like regular shortcuts.

- Phil