Exporting/Importing without a sourcefile

[ekhaede]

I'm having trouble exporting and importing data.

I have one image of which I want to export it's metadata into other images, which might not even be on the same computer.

So I export specific tags from one image into a CSV file using this:

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exiftool.exe -charset LATIN -ImageDescription -Make -Model -Artist -Keywords -csv image.jpg > temp.csv


The CSV file looks something like this then

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SourceFile,ImageDescription,Make,Model,Artist,Keywords
image.jpg,Some Description,Some other Info,Test,Test Test,"Some Infos with commas, like this"


Now I want to import these CSV tags into other images (one by one)
I tried using:

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exiftool.exe -charset LATIN -overwrite_original -f -csv=temp.csv image2.jpg

Well, the problem is, it can't find the SourceFile anymore now.

How can I import Tags from CSV without a sourcefile? I just want it to read the tags from the CSV into an image.
Any other export format would be fine too, doesn't have to be CSV.

How would I go about this?

[Phil Harvey]

A "*" in the SourceFile column will match any source file name.  This is explained in the application documentation.

- Phil

[ekhaede]

A "*" in the SourceFile column will match any source file name.  This is explained in the application documentation.

- Phil

I see, but is it possible to export it with a * already as sourcefile?
This operation is part of a batch file, I don't want to need to edit the CSV file for it.

[Phil Harvey]

No.

It  sounds like you should be using some other format rather than CSV.  Maybe something like this:

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> exiftool.exe -tagsfromfile source.jpg -ImageDescription -Make -Model -Artist -Keywords out.mie
> exiftool -tagsfromfile out.mie destination.jpg

- Phil

[ekhaede]

This is a far better approach, it's working wonderfully.

I was under the impression tagsfromfile requires an actual image file as source and target, not just a metadata file.

Thank you.