Digikam windows review8/19/2023 ![]() Windows commands are sometimes slightly different because (among other differences) Windows requires different escape characters (%, ", and ' are example escape characters). If misused, Exiftool can scatter your images all over your hard drive, remove all your image metadata, and otherwise wreck havoc on your files.Īll the Exiftool example commands on this page assume you are using Linux. When in doubt, the internet search engines are your friends. You can easily delete all your personal files and/or ruin your system files. If you execute an improperly typed "chmod" or "rm" command from within the wrong folder, you can delete or change the file permissions on a whole lot of files that weren't the files you were trying to delete or modify. I don't know what the Windows or MacIntosh equivalents would be. "find", "chmod", and "rm" are Linux commands. Some of the steps on this page use "find", "chmod", and "rm" at the command line. Warning: dangerous commands, proceed with caution This doesn't mean that all the command examples on this page still work exactly the same as they did when I first posted the article. I put this article up on my website mostly so I would have a quick reference for the Exiftool commands that I use the most often. ![]() ![]() Although this article was written in 2012, Exiftool and the Exiftool syntax seldom change except to add new tags and new capabilities. Overview, the obligatory warning, and outline with page links Overviewĭuring the actual ingestion process I use Exiftool to rename camera image files and write copyright, credit, and contact information directly to the image metadata.īecause of certain peculiarities and bugs in digiKam's handling of XMP sidecar files (possibly fixed in digiKam 4.7 see Bug 309058 - Database can't be synchronized with XMP sidecars), I use a combination of Geeqie and Exiftool to write rotation metadata before handing the images over to digiKam, and I create Exiftool "MIE" sidecar files to be used in conjunction with the XMP sidecar files that digiKam will create.įinally, I use Exiftool to move the camera image files and MIE sidecar files into my digiKam album subfolders.Ī word about Exiftool: Exiftool is a mature and extremely reliable metadata reading and writing application, and it's the only metadata writing application that I trust enough to allow writing metadata to my camera raw files. Overview, the obligatory warning, and outline with page links.
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