Error on Windows 7

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[Originally posted by accureras on 2010-02-12 13:49:01.280727-08]

Hi there,

I recently reinstalled my computer, and now I've got an error using exiftool.

Because I was using an old version, I've downloaded the latest version, but still got the error:

Code:

P:\Camera>exiftool -r "-FileName<${CreateDate}_$filenumber.jpg" -d %Y%m%d_%H%M%S Incoming
Can't locate PAR.pm in @INC (@INC contains: .) at -e line 860.

Anyone?

Regards

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[Originally posted by exiftool on 2010-02-12 16:40:00.13425-08]

Can you locate the directory containing the temporary files?
This is where PAR.pm etc should be located.  This is normally
C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\Temp\par-USER with Windows 7, but
it may be different depending on the TEMP environment
setting.

If you can locate this temporary directory, I suggest trashing
everything in it and trying again.  See the installation instructions
for how to do this.  Possibly you could try playing
with your TEMP setting if you know how to see if this helps.

Sorry I can't be more help.  I know other people run on Windows
7 with no problem but I don't have a WIndows 7 machine myself.

- Phil

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[Originally posted by accureras on 2010-02-13 00:16:08.107399-08]

I trashed the whole temp dir, there was indeed a folder par-USER.

When I run exiftool again, it recreates this directory with a subdir (cache-da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709) and 2 files in it: exiftool.exe and perl58.dll.

But the error remains...

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[Originally posted by accureras on 2010-02-13 03:19:00.63867-08]

I've found the problem.

When you put exiftool.exe in C:\Windows\System32 you can run it, but it gives the previous described error.

After moving it to C:\Windows, it works perfectly....

strange!

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[Originally posted by exiftool on 2010-02-13 08:25:19.103619-08]

I can't say I understand, but I'm glad you found a solution.

Also, there are normally lots more files in the temporary folder --
one for each of at least 20 exiftool modules plus at least that
many Perl modules too.

- Phil