Preserve EXIF

I had some time to spare today so, i decided to sort the images i took this year. Not many … but still it took me some time. While sorting them i decided to play with some of them . Nothing important but at the end the EXIF data was missing. Seems that some of the tools don’t preserve the EXIF data.

Looking in the internet i found a command line tool (exiftool-k) which did what i needed. Syntax is easy:

exiftool -tagsfromfile file1.jpg file2.jpg

If you have multiple files for batch processing use:

exiftool -tagsfromfile %f.jpg -ext jpg dirName

In current dir you should have the source files and in dirName the files (in this case with extension .jpg) missing the EXIF data.

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