[pyExifToolGUI] ExifTool not Found Mac OS X El Capitan

[Hayo Baan]

What Phil suggested was that you placed the whole of the exiftool application on your desktop and then point to that in pyExiftoolGui.

Hope that makes things clearer.

[Phil Harvey]

You also need the exiftool "lib" directory in the same location as the "exiftool" script.

- Phil

[bergjet]

I have copy the lib directory and the exiftool to the desktop. But it does not work. No error message. However, no reaction.

[Phil Harvey]

Sorry, I can't help here.  I tried to run pyExifTool but it requires Image::Magick which gave errors when I tried to install it, and I don't have much spare time to figure out why.

- Phil

[bergjet]

Sorry, I can't help here.  I tried to run pyExifTool but it requires Image::Magick which gave errors when I tried to install it, and I don't have much spare time to figure out why.

- Phil

That's okay, thank you Phil.

[bergjet]

The solution http://tonyredhead.com/google-tips/pyexiftool-exiftool-linking-issue

[Phil Harvey]

Wow, that's complicated.  I think it would be much easier to make a simple modification to pyExifToolGUI to run exiftool from /usr/local/bin.

- Phil

Edit:  Also, for the record, the pyExifToolGUI author knows about this problem and is working on a solution.

[RiotNrrrd]

"Hi, long-time listener, first-time caller ..."

Just wanted to add my 2 (US) cents.

I was happily using ExifTool 9.78 and pyExifToolGUI 0.5 on Yosemite 10.10.5 and then I upgraded ExifTool to 10.15 and it broke pyExifToolGUI, of course.

I ran the binary inside the .app bundle directly and got

% /Applications/pyexiftoolgui.app/Contents/MacOS/pyexiftoolgui

Program start: We are on python 2.7.3 (v2.7.3:70274d53c1dd, Apr  9 2012, 20:52:43)
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)]
create arguments file(s) from selected image(s)
create arguments file(s) from selected image(s)
/Users/riotnrrrd
/Users/riotnrrrd/.pyexiftoolgui/config.cfg
reading config.cfg
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 624, in <module>
  File "<string>", line 200, in __init__
  File "/Users/Shared/development/python_related/pyside/pyExifToolGUI-0.5/MacOSX/build/pyi.darwin/pyexiftoolgui/out00-PYZ.pyz/petgfunctions", line 152, in tool_check
  File "/Users/Shared/development/python_related/pyside/pyExifToolGUI-0.5/MacOSX/build/pyi.darwin/pyexiftoolgui/out00-PYZ.pyz/petgfunctions", line 86, in exiftool_version_level_text
ValueError: invalid literal for float(): 10.15 [Warning: Library version is 9.78]

I thought that was interesting because the old 9.78 binary was in /usr/bin/exiftool and the new 10.15 binary is in /usr/local/bin/exiftool.

I made the two changes to ~/.pyexiftoolgui/config.cfg but it still doesn't come up.  (Not deterministically, anyway.)

% head -3 ~/.pyexiftoolgui/config.cfg
[preferences]
alternate_exiftool = True
exiftooloption = /usr/local/bin/exiftool

% /Applications/pyexiftoolgui.app/Contents/MacOS/pyexiftoolgui

Program start: We are on python 2.7.3 (v2.7.3:70274d53c1dd, Apr  9 2012, 20:52:43)
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)]
create arguments file(s) from selected image(s)
create arguments file(s) from selected image(s)
/Users/riotnrrrd
/Users/riotnrrrd/.pyexiftoolgui/config.cfg
reading config.cfg
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 624, in <module>
  File "<string>", line 200, in __init__
  File "/Users/Shared/development/python_related/pyside/pyExifToolGUI-0.5/MacOSX/build/pyi.darwin/pyexiftoolgui/out00-PYZ.pyz/petgfunctions", line 152, in tool_check
  File "/Users/Shared/development/python_related/pyside/pyExifToolGUI-0.5/MacOSX/build/pyi.darwin/pyexiftoolgui/out00-PYZ.pyz/petgfunctions", line 86, in exiftool_version_level_text
ValueError: could not convert string to float:

(The amusing thing here is that there is no "/Users/share/development" folder.  Obviously this is left over from the pyExifToolGUI author's own build environment.)

I downloaded a binary .dmg of pyExifToolGUI so there is no "petgfunctions.py" file to diddle.

When it quits I see this in the logs:

com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.xpc.launchd.domain.pid.pyexiftoolgui.31562): Could not resolve origin of domain. XPC services in this domain's bundle will not be bootstrapped: error = 107: Malformed bundle, taint = missing executable

What I'm finding is that it comes up (and stays up) about once for every 4 to 6 or 7 times I try to open it.  Very odd!

The

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 624, in <module>
  File "<string>", line 200, in __init__
  File "/Users/Shared/development/python_related/pyside/pyExifToolGUI-0.5/MacOSX/build/pyi.darwin/pyexiftoolgui/out00-PYZ.pyz/petgfunctions", line 152, in tool_check
  File "/Users/Shared/development/python_related/pyside/pyExifToolGUI-0.5/MacOSX/build/pyi.darwin/pyexiftoolgui/out00-PYZ.pyz/petgfunctions", line 86, in exiftool_version_level_text
ValueError: could not convert string to float:

error messages only come out on the attempts that fail, obvs.  I have no idea why it coming up is so non-deterministic.