Hermann-Josef Röser

Hi, in the args there are not quotes. These are only in the error message. If the %f cannot be used as the destination I have a problem. The destination has to be derived from the source file name, since in the end I want to run this args on a large numebr of files. I habve sent the screenshot to Frank on GitHub. Hermann-Josef

Good evening, thanks a lot for your detailed instructions. I am sorry for the confusion. Let me try to clarify things ( I also asked Frank on GitHub): The small JPGs are all tagged (named slide0001.jpg) and I want to copy the tags to the properly processed jpgs, named slide0001_L_opt.jpg (and if this works, also to the very large TIFs for archiving). So the source has the short name and the destination has the "_L_opt" added to the file name. In practical use (since not all JPGs have a corresponding...

Sorry, but my example was the wrong way around. I mixed source and destination. I corrected that but it gives me an error. So I will try to contact FrankBijnen via GitHub, as you suggested. Hermann-Josef

Thanks a lot for your rapid reply. I certainly will give it a try as soon as possible and will let you know. Hermann-Josef

Hi, having a problem with coding an args-file for EXIFtoolGUI, I would like to open the following new discussion: Hello, to document my scanned slides and negatives, I have created small JPGs for each of them, into which I enter the relevant tags I have selected with EXIFtoolGUI as follows: Copies tags to the selected file(s) from the reference as specified in line 2 -tagsfromfile D:/Bildarchiv_temp/SW/%f.jpg ----EXIF---- -EXIF:ImageDescription -EXIF:Artist ... This requires the source file (reference)...