Issue: specified custom exiftool config seems to be ignored

[lifeofdave]

Hi All

I'm trying to specify a custom exiftool config but am not getting the desired results.

Here is the gist of the command I'm using:

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exiftool  -config "C:\Users\...\.ExifTool_config"  -geotag "E:/St_Pauls_GPSLOG17.log" -geosync="0 0:0:6.150" "E:\test\jpegs"

Exiftool definitely finds the custom config, as it doesn't output a "config file not found" error, however it appears to ignore all the custom tags in the config and use a default one instead. If I copy the same '.ExifTool_config' to 'C:\Windows' and then run the command again without the -config flag it works as expected and creates all the custom tags, which suggests there's nothing wrong with the config itself.

I'm out of ideas and not sure how to find out what the problem is, any help really appreciated!

[Phil Harvey]

Tricky.

What version of ExifTool are you using?  I'm hoping a really old one before the -config option was added.

- Phil

[lifeofdave]

False alarm, just a silly mistake on my part. Spent too long in from of the screen today.

Turns out I was tagging the images using the -config tag, but then checking the images for custom tags without the -config flag and and so obviously they didn't show up. Thanks for all your hard work Phil.