Command with "status 5" and appcrash with "error code 5"

[orw]

Hi Phil,

I'm trying to export metadata from about 380,000 images by using R to call ExifTool. The script I'm running has worked fine until now, but this is the largest number of images I've given it so far (previously worked on ~100,000 images fine). After a few hours, Windows informed me that ExifTool had crashed and R output some messages it presumably got from ExifTool:

In addition: Warning messages:
1: running command 'C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c exiftool -r -csv "F:\Camera Trap Photos" > "C:/Users/Ollie/Desktop/image_metadata_ALL(170912).csv"' had status 5
2: In shell(paste("exiftool -r -csv ", "\"", paste(image.dir), "\"",  :
  'exiftool -r -csv "F:\Camera Trap Photos" > "C:/Users/Ollie/Desktop/image_metadata_ALL(170912).csv"' execution failed with error code 5

Any help on what these statuses and/or error codes mean would be great. I had a hunt around your documentation and FAQs, as well as searching on this forum to no avail. Sorry if I missed something obvious.

Is it a memory issue can you tell?

Many thanks,
Oliver

PS This is the line of code in question:

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shell(paste("exiftool -r -csv ", "\"", paste(image.dir), "\"", " > \"C:/Users/Ollie/Desktop/", filename, ".csv", "\"", sep=""))

PPS I'm using: Windows Vista, ~2GB of available RAM (since 32-bit), ExifTool v8.68

[Phil Harvey]

Is this problem fixed with the current version of ExifTool (9.02)?

Problems like this are almost always memory issues, and there have been some memory improvements recently.

- Phil