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June 27th 08 02:53 PM

Is it possible to Export, Textedit, & then Import EXIF informationusing freeware?

EXIF Info wrote:
Is it possible to Export, Textedit, & then Import EXIF information with
freeware?

Has you ever done it yourself? (if so, you're a genius!)

There must be a combination of freeware out there that allows export of
exif information, text editing, and then import of the resultant file.

There must be someone out there smart enough to figure this out (smarter
than me, that's for sure, 'cuz I can't find a way to do it).

In a related thread (on freeware editing of EXIF data), it was mentioned
that some programs can export XML which can then be editited and imported
back in - but I tried every suggested program and can not accomplish the
simple task.

Have you ever exported EXIF information to a text (or xml, csv, doc, etc.)
file, edited that file, and then successfully imported the results back
into a digital photograph using Windows freeware?

If so, you're a genious. How did you do it?

No, but the Exiftool docs seem to make it possible.

Doug McDonald

Dan Cline

June 27th 08 05:20 PM

Is it possible to Export, Textedit, & then Import EXIF information using freeware?

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:53:31 -0500, lid wrote:

Have you ever exported EXIF information to a text (or xml, csv, doc, etc.)
file, edited that file, and then successfully imported the results back
into a digital photograph using Windows freeware?

No, but the Exiftool docs seem to make it possible.

You have to be careful here. Exiftool imports only what it exported.
You can't edit the intermediary file.

AFIK, to answer the OP, there isn't any tool that will import a file that
you previously edited. They don't want to risk the crashes so they will
only import exactly what they exported.

Tom[_11_]

June 28th 08 08:21 PM

Is it possible to Export, Textedit, & then Import EXIF information using freeware?

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:53:31 -0500, lid wrote:

Have you ever exported EXIF information to a text (or xml, csv, doc, etc.)
file, edited that file, and then successfully imported the results back
into a digital photograph using Windows freeware?

If so, you're a genious. How did you do it?

No, but the Exiftool docs seem to make it possible.

The Exiftool docs merely state you can COPY the Exif information to the
Windows clipboard or you can export the Exif information to a proprietary
binary format.

The latter can be read back but the former editable form can not.

If it could, someone would have said so.

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