Original version of ExifToolGUI currently unsupported

[Phil Harvey]

Sorry for the bad news, but it seems as if Bogdan is no longer supporting his ExifToolGUI program, and hasn't responded to any questions in this section of the forum for quite a while.

I will leave this section of the forum up, but I'm afraid that you're on your own here because I can't answer questions about ExifToolGUI myself.

I will of course continue to support the exiftool command-line application and Perl API in the other sections of this forum.

- Phil

Edit:  An updated version of ExifToolGUI is now available (read here)

[afeininger]

Oh, after some weeks I guessed it could be something severe and constant... but I can understand that it must be a very hard work supporting a software as a single developer - and the public surely is not always very grateful 

So I say Thank You for giving us a very useful and versatile piece of software and for the very friendly and open-minded support!

[hening]

Hi Phil

your site lists a couple of other GUIs for ExifTool - is there any of these you would recommend? Since ExifToolGUI is no longer supported by its author.
What I need to do is to edit the focal length and aperture.
Thank you for your advice - as well as for your application!

Kind regards - Hening.

[Phil Harvey]

You can use ExifToolGUI to do this already.  Just add the tags to the workspace (FocalLength and FNumber).

- Phil

[hening]

Thank you for your fast reply! - Hening.

[lumen]

What a great program, I mean both, EXIFtool and the GUI, especially together 
Works at least for now (Windows 7 64bit), hope it will run in near future too eventhough support might not exist..
I haven't come across with any other GUI for exiftool

[Growltiger]

Hi Bogdan, I write this here because I can find no other way to contact you and I hope that you will one day read this message here.

Thanks and congratulations on ExifToolGUI. It (combined with the wonderful ExifTool) is the best way of seeing EXIF data that I have found.

I have a suggestion which would make it much better. And I think it might be easy for you to do.

There is no easy way to use your program to get the EXIF for images from the web, in other words images seen in a web browser.

I am NOT suggesting you write plugins for Firefox, IE etc. I think that would be a lot of frustrating work.

All the browsers let you right click on an image and then either Copy or Copy Image. For example one can then run Photoshop and do File/New then Paste.

So what your program is missing is the ability to paste an image into it.

(I know one can drop an image file onto its shortcut, but that doesn't help.)

I hope you like this suggestion.

[StarGeek]

There is no easy way to use your program to get the EXIF for images from the web, in other words images seen in a web browser.

I know there's at least one extension for FireFox that lets you view some Exif data, though it didn't always work well.  Checking just now I see there are several.  The one I have is ExifViewer 2.00, which I can't fully recommend. 

All the browsers let you right click on an image and then either Copy or Copy Image. For example one can then run Photoshop and do File/New then Paste.

I could be wrong, but I don't think that would work.  I believe, at least under windows, when you copy an image to the clipboard, it's only copying the image data, basically creating a Bmap copy of the image.  I don't believe it will copy over things like metadata.

[Growltiger]

StarGeek - you are correct. I just tried it and all the EXIF data is lost when copying.

In that case what we need is a Firefox browser extension that will, somehow, run ExifTool (preferably GUI).

[Phil Harvey]

What about using Jeffrey's online EXIF viewer?:

http://regex.info/exif.cgi

- Phil

[Growltiger]

How comprehensive are the results compared with exiftool?

[Phil Harvey]

He's using ExifTool 9.27 right now, so he's pretty up-to-date.

- Phil

[Growltiger]

Ah - I didn't know that it used ExifTool, that is very helpful.

Perhaps it already exists, but it would be a good idea to have a list of all the systems that use ExifTool, together with the version number they use.

The problem has been that a number of EXIF programs that used to be good seem to have been abandoned by their creators and have become less and less useful, for example PhotoME and Opanda.

[Phil Harvey]

Perhaps it already exists, but it would be a good idea to have a list of all the systems that use ExifTool, together with the version number they use.

Here is a partial list, but I am not going to keep track of the versions that they use.

- Phil

[Growltiger]

That is helpful, thanks. I had never noticed that list.

[luteja]

Does anybody know what happened to Bogdan? Is he ok?

Since ExifToolGUI has not been updated for more than 2 years is it still safe and compatible to use it with the latest ExifTool version?

Are there any alternatives to ExifToolGUI that we can possibly use?

[Phil Harvey]

Bogdan is OK.  He just decided that there was a real life outside the computer screen that he was missing.

To my knowledge, I haven't introduced any incompatibilities due to ExifTool updates.  I try really hard to maintain backward compatibility since ExifTool is used by many applications.

Any alternatives the I know about are listed on the ExifTool home page.  I'm not aware of anything better.

- Phil

[dgsjsj]

Hi Phil.
Version Windows Executable: exiftool-10.32.zip (4.9 MB)
It is not compatible with ExiftoolGUI version 5.16
Windows system 8.1 64 crashes
The information given for information only. I understand that you are not responsible for the work envelope.
Sorry for bad english. Best regards, Sergei.

[Hayo Baan]

Thanks for the report! What error message do you get? Does exiftool work when used outside the GUI?
Does the GUI still work with an older version of exiftool?

[Phil Harvey]

This is more likely a problem with ExifTool, not ExifToolGUI.  Please try uninstalling according to these instructions and re-downloading and re-installing ExifTool and let me know if that helps.  Also, please try running ExifTool directly as Hayo suggests.

- Phil

Edit: I just discovered that I built the EXE version of ExifTool 10.32 for 64-bit Windows instead of 32-bit.  I'll see about reverting to 32-bit compatibility for the next release.  This may have something to do with the problem.

Edit2: Try ExifTool 10.33 -- this one is built for 32-bit Windows again.

[dgsjsj]

1. What error message do you get?
2. Does exiftool work when used outside the GUI?
3.Does the GUI still work with an older version of exiftool?
-------------------------------------------------------------
1. I did not make a screenshot of the error message and can not remember the text.
2. When you drag a window, nothing happened. Because I do not work the command line.
3. Graphical interface works after installing exiftool-10.31 for Windows Executable:

[dgsjsj]

Графическую оболочку и exiftool-10.33 (без к)   запускаю из папки C:\My Tools\
Программа не работает. При попытке закрыть программу выдаётся сообщение
invalid pointer operation
Выход возможен только через диспетчер задач.
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Graphical shell and exiftool-10.33 (not K) run from the folder C: \ My Tools \
The program is not working. When you try to close the program issued a message-
invalid pointer operation
Output is possible only through the Task Manager.

[dgsjsj]

As a result, I returned to exiftool-10.31 for Windows Executable.
I regret that I can not get any help.

[Hayo Baan]

Have you already tried with the latest 10.33? As Phil said that is made for 32 bit windows. 10.32 was accidentally build for 64 bit windows only. And it looks like that was your problem.

[Phil Harvey]

From his last post it sounds like there were still problems with 10.33, but I don't think this is an exiftool.exe problem because I have reports that 10.33 works with Windows XP, 7, 8, 8.1 and 10 (32-bit and 64-bit).

(FYI: The problem with 10.32 was due to the fact that I lost my Windows 10 development system because of disk problems, and when I rebuilt it I installed the wrong Perl version.  This was fixed for 10.33, and I now keep multiple backups of my Windows development system so this shouldn't happen again.)

- Phil

[dgsjsj]

Hello.
I have a 64-bit Windows 8.1
I repeatedly tried two extreme versions 32 and 33.
I delete temporary files as recommended.
This did not lead to positive results.
I continue to use ExifTool Version Number         : 10.31
I will successively install the new version and tell if they work.

[dgsjsj]

Hi Phil.
Version Windows Executable: exiftool-10.35.zip (5.8 MB)
It is  compatible with ExiftoolGUI version 5.16
Windows system 8.1 64-bit
Best regards, Sergei.
Phil, thank you for the new version. I wish you successful work on the development of the program.

[Phil Harvey]

This makes sense if you were using the -lang option.

I'm glad it works for you now.

- Phil

[dgsjsj]

Yes it is. Works version  -lang (35)
Option (34) does not work.
If -lang options will have an odd numbering, it will be clear which version to use.

[Phil Harvey]

If -lang options will have an odd numbering, it will be clear which version to use.

I don't understand.  Hopefully all future versions will be OK.  The problem was due to a change in the build environment on my Windows system -- I had to rebuild it because of a disk crash.

- Phil

[dgsjsj]

In any case, it is clear that 10.31 and 10.35 working version.
I think you should not worry. There is something to be guided, if you want to maintain compatibility.
Всего доброго и удачи. С уважением Сергей.

[Phil Harvey]

Yes.  Only versions 10.32-10.34 had this problem.

- Phil

[dgsjsj]

exiftool-10.36

[Farrukh]

Hi
I just worked with ExifToolUI 4.27 and it worked with ExifTool 10.3.8. Edited some JPGs in batch and it logged only some Canon Camera Tag related warnings.
But I was not able to edit any tag in ExifToolUI 5.16 with ExifTool 10.3.8.

Farrukh

[Phil Harvey]

There have been some people with problems running ExifToolGUI on Windows 10 which have been solved by setting the compatibility property of the ExifToolGUI application.  See this post for details.

- Phil

[wasabi65]

Actually also ran into the Win10/ExifToolGUI issue. Settings the compatibility or any other measure mentioned here did not help. Finally what did it was a setting that I had never noticed previously. As the files were downloaded as ZIPs, when unpacking them with the Win10 explorer a new property shows up (ExifTool, as well as for all files of ExifToolGUI). You need to check that bottom right option (sorry, I have a German Win10). It says that the file comes from another computer and access is blocked. Cehcking the option allows access. The only other settings required for me were to run with admin rights and whitelisting in my antivirus.

[Kenneth Evans]

For the record I found Exif Pilot, which is free.  It seems to be a reasonable program.  At the time I had not done much with metadata beyond what Photoshop and Lightroom provide, but I needed (maybe wanted is better  ) to do something about copyright for art from a number of drawing programs (on computers, tablets, and phones) that typically do not add metadata.  In trying to decide how to do that, I got more into Exiftool and ExifToolGui, that I had apparently installed some time before.

It was harder than I thought, and by the time I had it in hand, I was much more experienced with Exiftool and ExifToolGui.  I removed Exif Pilot from my computers, just to keep things simple.  ExifToolGui seems to be good enough for my purposes, mainly viewing metadata.  And there is Exiftool, which does about anything (but not as a GUI) as a backup.

The bottom line is if you are looking for an alternative, this would be one to look at, at least on Windows.

[frazierwilliam]

Yeah, thanks, Phil.

I, too, was initially bummed as I had trouble getting ExifToolGUI to function properly.

Phil's list of tools that leverage ExifTool is great. I actually had stumbled upon GeoSetter right after having trouble with ExifToolGUI (it's on Phil's list), and I'm actually finding it to be a fantastic GUI. To me, it seems to be much easier to use than ExifToolGUI, but I'm in no position to state that as fact.

Anyway, if you're jazzed about the possibilities of using ExifTool (which I was), but thinking that without ExifToolGUI it'll be a large learning project, GeoSetter is likely to meet your needs. Geosetter is free. Download is on the Germany tld: http://www.geosetter.de/en/main-en/

[Manuel G.]

Bogdan is OK.  He just decided that there was a real life outside the computer screen that he was missing.

To my knowledge, I haven't introduced any incompatibilities due to ExifTool updates.  I try really hard to maintain backward compatibility since ExifTool is used by many applications.

Any alternatives the I know about are listed on the ExifTool home page.  I'm not aware of anything better.

- Phil

Hello,

Could you ask Bogdan, if he would be willing to hand over ExifitoolGui project and all his notes, to someone who wants to, to continue developing it? It would be good news.

[Phil Harvey]

I did ask him years ago, and he responded that the project wasn't in a state where it could be made public.

- Phil

[Manuel G.]

I did ask him years ago, and he responded that the project wasn't in a state where it could be made public.

- Phil

Thank you very much for your answer

[obetz]

there is an open source GUI wrapper in Python: https://hvdwolf.github.io/pyExifToolGUI/

I didn't use it but if you want to roll your own, this might be a starting point.

[Brendianer]

Hello!
Why do I get a script error whilst using Google maps?
Regards

[Phil Harvey]

Why do I get a script error whilst using Google maps?

This error is currently unresolved:

https://exiftool.org/forum/index.php?topic=4247.msg20209#msg20209

https://exiftool.org/forum/index.php?topic=6875.msg44284#msg44284

Something at Google changed to stop this from working.  Perhaps this is related to the fact that the Google Maps API is no longer free.  If it isn't, this fact alone would break this feature now unless you had your own API keys.

- Phil

Edit:  More related threads with answers to some questions but no solution to this problem:

https://exiftool.org/forum/index.php?topic=9724.0

https://exiftool.org/forum/index.php?topic=9674.msg50252#msg50252

[Brendianer]

Thanks Phil!
But maybe I am too stupid.
How can I change the GPS data?
I cannot edit Exif data. Only on Workspace.

[Phil Harvey]

I don't use the GUI, but I think you add the GPS tags to the workspace, then assign values to them.

- Phil

[Brendianer]

Got it!
Thanks.

[amainiii]

I'm an experienced software developer. Including many years with Microsoft technologies and cleaning up old projects. I'm retired now and would be happy to have something to throw myself into. If someone can get a hold of the ExifTool GUI, I'll be glad to clean it up, comment it, etc. Guaranteed no recriminations.

[Phil Harvey]

I seem to remember asking a long time ago if Bogdan would release the code, but I don't think he had it in a state where he thought he could do that.  Unfortunately I can't check on this communication easily because I've archived all of my mails from that long ago.

- Phil

[StarGeek]

I remember you saying something like that and found it earlier in this thread.

[Phil Harvey]

UPDATE!

Bogdan is alive and has said he will send me the ExifToolGUI source code.  I'll pass it along to you if you send me your email.

- Phil

Edit: Bogdan said I could do whatever I want with the files, so I've attached his zip file of the ExifToolGUI source code to this post.

[StarGeek]

UPDATE!

Bogdan is alive and has said he will send me the ExifToolGUI source code.  I'll pass it along to you if you send me your email.

Very cool.

[amainiii]

I had seen Phil Harvey's post from March 24, 2020 before requesting the source code. So my expectations were modest. I had already begun considering other options some of which may work well for me. I also begun designing a from-scratch .NET version. Checking back here, was impressed with the speed and the positive response. It says a lot about Phil and Bogdan and the general collaborative nature of this community!

I've downloaded the source code, it is Delphi Pascal. The Delphi platform was popular for years. In that ecosystem, there were third party component suppliers (not free) that you could use to build an executable, and then you could freely distribute the compiled code. I've checked the libraries that are used by ExifToolGUI and they are still available, but they seem to have changed since the versions used by Bogdan.

As far as me doing something with it, I'm weighing several factors. (1) I've written production code in at least seven languages, but not Pascal. (2) Purchasing the libraries would be a non-negligible financial investment (3) Reworking the code to work with current libraries would be some work (4) I'm not sure what the market/user demand is for ExifToolGUI (what features/functionality are used) (5) Would it be better to convert this to C# .NET for a longer future and post it as open source (6) Would it be cheaper to outsource the conversion to C# than purchase the third party libraries. (7) Would a ground-up version be a better approach based on current needs?

I am using ExifToolGUI today because of the ability to edit metadata. I can customize the Workspace to have just the tags I want to edit and fairly quickly move through the files I need to tag (archive images). But I don't know what most users of ExifToolGUI are using it for. It seems that there are great commercial products for Geotagging and organizing (digital asset management), so not sure that sort of thing is necessary in ExifToolGUI. I have exchanged email with a few providers, and they have pointed me back to exiftool for the particular metadata editing I want to do.

If what most users want is the same thing I'm using it for (a customized Workspace to quickly edit select metadata), I could create a new product that works a bit like ExifToolGUI, but without some of the other features (the Chart tab, for example).  Comments from other users of ExifToolGUI about what features they use might help me figure out how to approach whatever I'm going to do here (if anything).

Thanks again to Phil and Bogdan for delivering so quickly.

[pabras]

I'm a experience Delphi programmer and I still program in it (a lot), So I will have alook at the code.

But I have no idea what other people use it for.

So if their are whishes or bugs, let me know and I see what I can do.

[amainiii]

@pabras The problem I was seeking to fix was that once you hit save, the filelist tab refreshes, and the image/images that had been previously selected are de-selected. In directories with a lot of files, it means I have to select the filelist tab, scroll down and reselect the files before editing. This adds 30-100% to the time needed. At a minimum it would be nice if the filelist scrolled down to the exact same position it was, even if the previously selected files are no longer selected.  Also, even when you mouse over the filelist, the scroll events continue to be directed to the metadata tab instead. So you have to select the filelist tab, then scroll or page down. You have to do this carefully to avoid changing your selected files. That was all I was trying to fix. If you have some way of acquiring the old third party libraries at no cost, then maybe these issues could be easily fixed.

[Martin Z]

Lol, well that was 15-second rollercoaster  

•  I just posted a new question in the EXIFtoolGUI forum when I saw this post and my heart sank
•  But then I saw the Phil was able to get the source code from Bogdan (amazing! )
•  I promptly downloaded and un-zipped it, excited that I might be able to use the sourcecode and answer the question I just asked 
•  Alas it seems EXIFtoolGUI was written in Delphi and I have absolutely no knowledge of that at all so, that back to square 1 (hoping someone on the forum can answer) -- which is fine, just like I say a lot of ups and downs to go through in the space of a few seconds! 

[lmiol]

... But I don't know what most users of ExifToolGUI are using it for. It seems that there are great commercial products for Geotagging and organizing (digital asset management).

If what most users want is the same thing I'm using it for (a customized Workspace to quickly edit select metadata), I could create a new product that works a bit like ExifToolGUI, but without some of the other features (the Chart tab, for example).  Comments from other users of ExifToolGUI about what features they use might help me figure out how to approach whatever I'm going to do here (if anything)...

I am using same as you, Workspace and Custom Filelist
Also will be nice to see GEOTAG setting by map position in this app. I replace this broken feature by new app GEOPhoto https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/9WZDNCRFJ0F2

Right now i found some bugs. And it is obvious it is easier and cheaper to create new app.
I am QA and UX Designer and if someone interested to renew ExiftoolGUI I will help with design. Atleast you have nothing to lose =)

[Martin Z]

Also will be nice to see GEOTAG setting by map position in this app

Thanks for sharing that link, looks simply (in a nice way), will have to try it out!

Also, if you are looking for a tool to geo-tag your photos and also edit (as well as copy/paste metadata) then you might want to give GeoSetter a try (it's free).


[PS - Click thumbnail above to expand picture and show full-size]

The UI is a bit more complex than the Microsoft store app you shared, but has some handy features, like:

• Set favourite locations -- and use these to quickly add location data to photos where it is missing, etc
• Clean or align geo-data -- e.g. if the GPS was slightly out when the photo was taken, and the co-ordinates are actually 50m away, you can set a radius, grab all photos in that radius and then set them to the 'correct' location
• Selectively copy metadata to other photos -- choose your base image and "copy", select the images you want to copy the metadata to and "paste", then a dialog opens and you can choose exactly what metadata to copy, keywords, locations, timestamps, etc

[lmiol]

The UI is a bit more complex than the Microsoft store app you shared, but has some handy features, like:

• Set favourite locations -- and use these to quickly add location data to photos where it is missing, etc
• Clean or align geo-data -- e.g. if the GPS was slightly out when the photo was taken, and the co-ordinates are actually 50m away, you can set a radius, grab all photos in that radius and then set them to the 'correct' location
• Selectively copy metadata to other photos -- choose your base image and "copy", select the images you want to copy the metadata to and "paste", then a dialog opens and you can choose exactly what metadata to copy, keywords, locations, timestamps, etc

This app is awesome. I like almost full customization!
Thank for that advise

Maybe you know how to work with HEIC format using this app?

[Martin Z]

This app is awesome. I like almost full customization!
Thank for that advise

Happy to help!
No worries at all!... Several of the admins like StarGeek and Phil have been really great at answering my questions and helping me out, so glad that I can return the favour!

Maybe you know how to work with HEIC format using this app?

GeoSetter seems to support .heic
I'm afraid I don't have/use .heic images, however I downloaded 1-2 sample files and they seemed to work OK automatically, as in:
 • GeoSetter was able to render the image
 • It could read the metadata, etc [see below]


[click to expand]

What is it that you're trying to do?
 • If it's writing metadata (and GeoSetter doesn't seem to be able to do that) then I'm not sure am afraid
 • I've never used .heic's before so not even sure if they support EXIF, IPTC, XMP data, etc...
 • If they do, and it's a matter of not being able to edit in GeoSetter, probably the best thing is to drop the developer a line and raise it as a suggestion 👍🏼

[lmiol]

found solution how to enable Google Map in ExifToolGui

it need to add regedit emulation of old Browser
Current user
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION

or

System
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MAIN\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MAIN\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION

add DWORD (32bit) with name
ExifToolGUI.exe

And choose one of IE Explorer names
Webbrowser                                 Hexadecimal   Decimal
Internet Explorer 11 (Win10)      0x2EDF      11999
Internet Explorer 11                     0x2AF9      11001
Internet Explorer 11 (IE9-Modus)   0x2AF8      11000
Internet Explorer 10                     0x2711      10001
Internet Explorer 10 (IE9-Modus)   0x2710      10000

for me works 2EDF

Google Map view is on Developer Mode, but scenarios works

Case 1
1 select file with Geotags
2 Click "Get location"
result: map updates to geotag of files and now you can do Case 2

Case 2 from Case 1
1 Select files without tag
2 Click "Geotag files" button on GoogleMap

Case 2 without case 1
1 Select files without tag
2 click on map (will be invisible MARKER)
3 Click "Geotag files" button

Case 3
1 select file with Geotags
2 click "Show on Map"
3 click on map close what you want (will be invisible MARKER)
4 click "Get location"
3 Click "Geotag files" button

i didn't figured out why need "^set" button

[lmiol]

it seems best solution for exiftoolgui is change googlemap to openstreetmap=)
like this one app http://meesoft.com/PhotoLocator/