Why does this lose the Directory field?

[terrypin]

Running this in the current directory works as expected, writing a text file for all images.

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exiftool -T -directory -filename -datetimeoriginal -comment -r "C:\Docs\My Pictures\PHOTOS\Tests" > out.txt

I then tried reducing the length of the command to a minimum. Intuitively it seemed that running it in the current directory meant that I did not need to enter the directory name after the '-r'. But it did not then show the directory, replacing it instead with '.' in each line. Why? More important, can I somehow achieve what I described please?

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exiftool -T -directory -filename -datetimeoriginal -comment -r . > out.txt

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Terry,

The Directory tag reported by ExifTool is based on the path you specify.  If you want it to report a full path, then you need to specify a full path on the command line.  There is no other way.

- Phil

[terrypin]

OK, thanks Phil, understood.

Terry, East Grinstead, UK