Android app to remove all location data in bulk

On Sun, 24 Jun 2018 12:15:36 -0400, nospam wrote:

In article , Jim-P
wrote:

exiftool "-gps*=" *.jpg
use the 2nd one if XMP is being used for location data within the files.
You can use it on raw files too (*.dng, etc.)

I have many Windows tools which will remove EXIF data, including EXIFtool
which I like for its drag and drop option, and some will do it in bulk.

exiftool is a command line tool and therefore has no drag and drop
capability, other than what the shell itself provides.

If you create a shortcut to "exiftool(-k).exe" then you can drag and drop
your jpg files onto it and it will report the values in a window. I have a
shortcut to Exiftool in my Windows taskbar to do this.

that's a wrapper around exiftool which provides a window and drag/drop.

It was incorrect to say " exiftool is a command line tool and therefore has
no drag and drop capability" because the wrapper facility is provided by
Exiftool. The web site says:

"drag-and-drop files and folders to run exiftool on the selected files"
https://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

there are third party tools that may have drag and drop and which use
exiftool under the hood.

However I can't find a bulk EXIF remover for Android. In fact all I want
is a bulk EXIF location tag remover for Android and I haven't come across
one.

then you haven't looked.

I have looked and installed several of the apps I found but none do what I
asked for.

then keep looking, or refine your search terms to get better results.

Why would I waste my time asking here if I could find apps for
myself more quickly than it takes to write a message?

because it's easier to have other people do the work.

You are incorrect. I can't find such an app. Please stop trying to
pretend I can and claiming it is laziness which makes me ask.

On the other hand you didn't manage to check drag and drop on Phil Harvey's
Exiftool site because the info is there in plain sight and I don't know
what you put that down to.

a search brings up quite a few options.

I think you are referring to something other than what I am looking for. I
posted: Is there an android app which will remove all GPS location data
from all the photos in a folder? The EXIF editors I have seen need you to
go into an individual photo's EXIF window and remove the location data for
that photo.

some might, while others can process a batch.
however, doing that on an android device is not ideal.

On Mon, 18 Jun 2018 10:45:06 -0700, Savageduck wrote:

On Jun 18, 2018, Jim-P wrote
(in article ):

On Sun, 17 Jun 2018 15:27:35 -0400, Alan Browne wrote:

On 2018-06-17 14:06, Jim-P wrote:
[5 quoted lines suppressed]

For a mess of photos in a given folder exiftool can remove all location
data (and/or other metadata) with a single command line instruction.
Very fast, too.

Say your photos are all in:
/Users/Jim/Pictures/TheRoadTrip
Go to that folder in a terminal window
//this is a Mac or Linux command; in Windows correct as needed.
cd ~/Pictures/TheRoadTrip
exiftool -gps:all= *.jpg

OR

exiftool "-gps*=" *.jpg
use the 2nd one if XMP is being used for location data within the files.
You can use it on raw files too (*.dng, etc.)

I have many Windows tools which will remove EXIF data, including EXIFtool
which I like for its drag and drop option, and some will do it in bulk.

However I can't find a bulk EXIF remover for Android. In fact all I want
is a bulk EXIF location tag remover for Android and I haven't come across
one.

There must be a demand for such a thing because Android is very invasive
and shares personal data too readily.

A Google search leads me down this path:
https://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/featur...m-photos-view-
edit-exif-android-windows-mac-iphone-1821872
or https://tinyurl.com/y9bed23v

They like "EXIF Eraser" so I installed it but I found it doesn't do bulk
EXIF erase which is what I want. The site like the granularity the app
provides but that's the opposite of what I want!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/d....photoexifedit
or&hl=en_US

I went and installed that app too too but again it only does a file at a
time.

Thanks for your help.

https://www.guidingtech.com/31763/remove-geo-location-exif-data/

That's onereason to bulk erase all EXIF data on your phone!

In article , Jim-P
wrote:


I have many Windows tools which will remove EXIF data, including EXIFtool
which I like for its drag and drop option, and some will do it in bulk.

exiftool is a command line tool and therefore has no drag and drop
capability, other than what the shell itself provides.

If you create a shortcut to "exiftool(-k).exe" then you can drag and drop
your jpg files onto it and it will report the values in a window. I have a
shortcut to Exiftool in my Windows taskbar to do this.

that's a wrapper around exiftool which provides a window and drag/drop.

It was incorrect to say " exiftool is a command line tool and therefore has
no drag and drop capability" because the wrapper facility is provided by
Exiftool.

it's not incorrect.

exiftool is command line tool that's written in perl. it knows nothing
about drag/drop or guis. it's also cross platform.

the wrapper can be provided by anyone and adds support for a specific
platform, which in this case is a windows .exe that also supports
drag/drop, and because windows doesn't normally have perl, he had to
remove the perl dependency.

there is also a mac .dmg, which is a disk image, inside which is an
installer to install exiftool in /usr/local/bin. there is no native mac
app, nor is one needed, since perl is standard on mac os and exiftool
can be accessed directly via terminal, which already has drag/drop.
there is also no need to use his installer either. that's merely a
convenience.

The web site says:

"drag-and-drop files and folders to run exiftool on the selected files"
https://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

that's only with the .exe version.

there are third party tools that may have drag and drop and which use
exiftool under the hood.

However I can't find a bulk EXIF remover for Android. In fact all I want
is a bulk EXIF location tag remover for Android and I haven't come across
one.

then you haven't looked.

I have looked and installed several of the apps I found but none do what I
asked for.

then keep looking, or refine your search terms to get better results.

Why would I waste my time asking here if I could find apps for
myself more quickly than it takes to write a message?

because it's easier to have other people do the work.

You are incorrect. I can't find such an app. Please stop trying to
pretend I can and claiming it is laziness which makes me ask.

then you're searching for the wrong things, or more likely, not
searching at all.

whenever someone claims they searched and can't find anything, it
invariably means they can't be bothered to do it themselves.

this is particularly true when the results they supposedly can't find
are in the first few hits, which is the case here.

not only do such apps exist, but you can also disable location tagging
prior to taking the photos.

On the other hand you didn't manage to check drag and drop on Phil Harvey's
Exiftool site because the info is there in plain sight and I don't know
what you put that down to.

once again, exiftool is a command line tool and has no notion of
drag/drop. period.

the .exe is what adds the gui and drag/drop. two separate things,
bundled together.

there are also a wealth of third party apps that use exiftool
internally and provide all sorts of additional functionality.

On 2018-06-24 18:15, nospam wrote:
In article , Jim-P
wrote:


However I can't find a bulk EXIF remover for Android. In fact all I want
is a bulk EXIF location tag remover for Android and I haven't come across
one.

then you haven't looked.

I have looked and installed several of the apps I found but none do what I
asked for.

then keep looking, or refine your search terms to get better results.

Why don't you even name one? You claim there are such tools, you must
have used or known them. So please say which and don't tell the asker to
google it.


--
Cheers, Carlos.

On 2018-06-24 22:22, nospam wrote:
In article , Jim-P
wrote:


I have many Windows tools which will remove EXIF data, including EXIFtool
which I like for its drag and drop option, and some will do it in bulk.

exiftool is a command line tool and therefore has no drag and drop
capability, other than what the shell itself provides.

If you create a shortcut to "exiftool(-k).exe" then you can drag and drop
your jpg files onto it and it will report the values in a window. I have a
shortcut to Exiftool in my Windows taskbar to do this.

that's a wrapper around exiftool which provides a window and drag/drop.

It was incorrect to say " exiftool is a command line tool and therefore has
no drag and drop capability" because the wrapper facility is provided by
Exiftool.

it's not incorrect.

exiftool is command line tool that's written in perl. it knows nothing
about drag/drop or guis. it's also cross platform.

the wrapper can be provided by anyone and adds support for a specific
platform, which in this case is a windows .exe that also supports
drag/drop, and because windows doesn't normally have perl, he had to
remove the perl dependency.

But it happens to be provided in the exiftool package, so it is part of
the suite.

--
Cheers, Carlos.

On Sun, 24 Jun 2018 16:22:03 -0400, nospam wrote:

In article , Jim-P
wrote:


I have many Windows tools which will remove EXIF data, including EXIFtool
which I like for its drag and drop option, and some will do it in bulk.

exiftool is a command line tool and therefore has no drag and drop
capability, other than what the shell itself provides.

If you create a shortcut to "exiftool(-k).exe" then you can drag and drop
your jpg files onto it and it will report the values in a window. I have a
shortcut to Exiftool in my Windows taskbar to do this.

that's a wrapper around exiftool which provides a window and drag/drop.

It was incorrect to say " exiftool is a command line tool and therefore has
no drag and drop capability" because the wrapper facility is provided by
Exiftool.

it's not incorrect.

exiftool is command line tool that's written in perl. it knows nothing
about drag/drop or guis. it's also cross platform.

the wrapper can be provided by anyone and adds support for a specific
platform, which in this case is a windows .exe that also supports
drag/drop, and because windows doesn't normally have perl, he had to
remove the perl dependency.

there is also a mac .dmg, which is a disk image, inside which is an
installer to install exiftool in /usr/local/bin. there is no native mac
app, nor is one needed, since perl is standard on mac os and exiftool
can be accessed directly via terminal, which already has drag/drop.
there is also no need to use his installer either. that's merely a
convenience.

The web site says:

"drag-and-drop files and folders to run exiftool on the selected files"
https://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

that's only with the .exe version.

there are third party tools that may have drag and drop and which use
exiftool under the hood.

However I can't find a bulk EXIF remover for Android. In fact all I want
is a bulk EXIF location tag remover for Android and I haven't come across
one.

then you haven't looked.

I have looked and installed several of the apps I found but none do what I
asked for.

then keep looking, or refine your search terms to get better results.

Why would I waste my time asking here if I could find apps for
myself more quickly than it takes to write a message?

because it's easier to have other people do the work.

You are incorrect. I can't find such an app. Please stop trying to
pretend I can and claiming it is laziness which makes me ask.

then you're searching for the wrong things, or more likely, not
searching at all.

whenever someone claims they searched and can't find anything, it
invariably means they can't be bothered to do it themselves.

this is particularly true when the results they supposedly can't find
are in the first few hits, which is the case here.

not only do such apps exist, but you can also disable location tagging
prior to taking the photos.

On the other hand you didn't manage to check drag and drop on Phil Harvey's
Exiftool site because the info is there in plain sight and I don't know
what you put that down to.

once again, exiftool is a command line tool and has no notion of
drag/drop. period.

the .exe is what adds the gui and drag/drop. two separate things,
bundled together.

there are also a wealth of third party apps that use exiftool
internally and provide all sorts of additional functionality.

Exiftool is not conyl a command line tool. It is at heart a command line
tool but I defer to the author who I have already quoted you as saying
"drag-and-drop files and folders to run exiftool on the selected files".

Note "Exiftool". Note "drag and drop".

If you think Phil Harbey is wrong or writes unclear English then send him
an email and tell him your views.

Despite your objection, I was correct to write: "I have many Windows tools
which will remove EXIF data, including EXIFtool which I like for its drag
and drop option".

If you can't help me find an app to do a bulk EXIF delete then please don't
feel obliged to answer my request. Please don't make claims about what I
bothered to do when you are guessing. Maybe I'm crap at searching but I
did search and did so many times and on various days and also installed
various candidate apps, so you have no grounds to tell me I didn't search.

I suspect such a feature doesn't exist because maybe Android users would
only rarely wish to cleanse all their pictures of EXIF data. My need
arises because I am starting to use my smartphone camera and took all the
early pictures with embedded location data.

In article , Carlos E.R.
wrote:

However I can't find a bulk EXIF remover for Android. In fact all I want
is a bulk EXIF location tag remover for Android and I haven't come across
one.

then you haven't looked.

I have looked and installed several of the apps I found but none do what I
asked for.

then keep looking, or refine your search terms to get better results.

Why don't you even name one? You claim there are such tools, you must
have used or known them. So please say which and don't tell the asker to
google it.

i gave sufficient clues for search terms to be able to find such an
app. it's not that difficult. really, it isn't.

i am not going to spoon feed him or anyone else, especially one who has
a stick up his ass about searching.

In article , Carlos E.R.
wrote:

I have many Windows tools which will remove EXIF data, including
EXIFtool
which I like for its drag and drop option, and some will do it in
bulk.

exiftool is a command line tool and therefore has no drag and drop
capability, other than what the shell itself provides.

If you create a shortcut to "exiftool(-k).exe" then you can drag and drop
your jpg files onto it and it will report the values in a window. I
have a shortcut to Exiftool in my Windows taskbar to do this.

that's a wrapper around exiftool which provides a window and drag/drop.

It was incorrect to say " exiftool is a command line tool and therefore has
no drag and drop capability" because the wrapper facility is provided by
Exiftool.

it's not incorrect.

exiftool is command line tool that's written in perl. it knows nothing
about drag/drop or guis. it's also cross platform.

the wrapper can be provided by anyone and adds support for a specific
platform, which in this case is a windows .exe that also supports
drag/drop, and because windows doesn't normally have perl, he had to
remove the perl dependency.

But it happens to be provided in the exiftool package, so it is part of
the suite.

nope. there is no exe included in the exiftool package, which is he
https://sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/Image-ExifTool-11.03.tar.gz

the windows exe is a *separate* download, for those stuck with windows:
https://sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/exiftool-11.03.zip

In article , Jim-P
wrote:


On the other hand you didn't manage to check drag and drop on Phil Harvey's
Exiftool site because the info is there in plain sight and I don't know
what you put that down to.

once again, exiftool is a command line tool and has no notion of
drag/drop. period.

the .exe is what adds the gui and drag/drop. two separate things,
bundled together.

there are also a wealth of third party apps that use exiftool
internally and provide all sorts of additional functionality.

Exiftool is not conyl a command line tool. It is at heart a command line
tool but I defer to the author who I have already quoted you as saying
"drag-and-drop files and folders to run exiftool on the selected files".

exiftool absolutely is a command line tool but is used in non-cli apps.

he is talking about the windows executable, which only exists because
windows lacks perl.

Note "Exiftool". Note "drag and drop".

If you think Phil Harbey is wrong or writes unclear English then send him
an email and tell him your views.

phil isn't wrong. you are.

you also refuse to learn about what exiftool actually is and what it
can do. you're also blind to anything other than windows.

Despite your objection, I was correct to write: "I have many Windows tools
which will remove EXIF data, including EXIFtool which I like for its drag
and drop option".

no you were not correct, because exiftool does not have drag/drop, nor
can it, for reasons already explained.

there is a windows *version* that does, which wraps exiftool, but that
only works on windows and was created because windows cannot be
guaranteed to have perl.

If you can't help me find an app to do a bulk EXIF delete then please don't
feel obliged to answer my request. Please don't make claims about what I
bothered to do when you are guessing. Maybe I'm crap at searching but I
did search and did so many times and on various days and also installed
various candidate apps, so you have no grounds to tell me I didn't search.

bull****.

you might have done a quick query, but that's about it.

try changing the query terms to obtain better results. repeat until you
get what you seek.

learning how to find stuff online is an incredibly good skill to have,
and it's something that comes with experience.

and no, i'm not going to spoon feed you.

I suspect such a feature doesn't exist because maybe Android users would
only rarely wish to cleanse all their pictures of EXIF data.

it exists.

it's also the wrong tool for the job, but if you insist on doing it on
android, it can be done.

My need
arises because I am starting to use my smartphone camera and took all the
early pictures with embedded location data.

then disable location tagging, which i already mentioned.

On 2018-06-25 00:28, nospam wrote:
In article , Jim-P


If you can't help me find an app to do a bulk EXIF delete then please don't
feel obliged to answer my request. Please don't make claims about what I
bothered to do when you are guessing. Maybe I'm crap at searching but I
did search and did so many times and on various days and also installed
various candidate apps, so you have no grounds to tell me I didn't search.

bull****.

you might have done a quick query, but that's about it.

try changing the query terms to obtain better results. repeat until you
get what you seek.

learning how to find stuff online is an incredibly good skill to have,
and it's something that comes with experience.

and no, i'm not going to spoon feed you.

Bull****. You have no idea of the question asked, so you fly. Name one
app that does what the OP asked, or go away.

You claim those tools exist: so YOU name them.

--
Cheers, Carlos.