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Changing lens metadata

odds

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odds Registered since 19th Feb 2009
Thu 01-May-14 06:29 AM | edited Thu 01-May-14 06:31 AM by odds
>I can't even find an .EXE to click on.

You are probably victim of Microsoft's policy of not displaying file types by default. File names without file type are supposedly more user friendly You may want to change (clear) the default setting "Hide extension for known file types". On Windows 7 you do that in the Control Panel -> Folder Options -> View.

Here is what works on my Windows 7 PC:

1) Start the Windows Explorer (the folder icon) or right-click the start button and pick the Windows Explorer from the pop up menu.

2) Create (in Windows Explorer) two emty folders on the hard drive, one folder C:\temp\zips to keep the downloaded Exiftool packages and one folder C:\exiftool for the ready to run software.

3) Download the exiftool-9.58.zip and exiftoolgui515.zip. I save both zip-files in folder C:\temp\zips

4) Unzip C:\temp\exiftool-9.58.zip to C:\exiftool. Use Windows Explorer, double click on the zip file to open it and then drag exiftool(-k).exe to folder C:\exiftool

5) Unzip C:\temp\exiftoolgui515.zip to C:\exiftool. Use Windows Explorer, double click on the zip file to open. Doubleclick the folder exiftoolgui in the opened zip, then mark and drag everything, (the two folders jhead_jpegtran and workspace plus the two files ExifToolGUI.exe and ExifToolGUI_readme.txt) to the folder C:\exiftool

6) The folder C:\exiftool should now have two folders (jhead_jpegtran and workspace) and the three files exiftool(-k).exe, ExifToolGUI.exe and ExifToolGUI_readme.txt.

7) Rename (in Windows Explorer) the file C:\exiftool\exiftool(-k).exe to exiftool.exe

9) Double-click (in Windows Explorer) the file ExifToolGUI.exe and see the graphical user interface rather than the command line you get by doubleclicking exiftool.exe

After the first run, the folder C:\exiftool will have one more file: ExifToolGUIv5.ini where ExiftoolGUI keeps settings.

The screen-shot you provided in a previous posting indicates that you started exiftool.exe rather than ExifToolGUI.exe. The .exe is there even if your Windows is set up to hide it.

Let us know if the above procedure does not work and where/how it fails.

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Odd S.
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