On 17/10/11 13:44, Thomas Jost wrote:
On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:33:06 +0100, Colin Law<[email protected]> wrote:
On 17 October 2011 13:21, Thomas Jost<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi list,
I've been using Shotwell for several months now and I really like it.
Lightweight and efficient -- just what I like on my computers running
Arch Linux.
When I switched to Shotwell, I enabled the option to write tags and
other metadata inside the photo files. Since then I realized that it's
probably a bad idea when you want to do regular backups. (Right now I'm
using unison to backup and sync the DB and pictures on several
computers, but I'd like to switch to a real VCS like git/git-annex or
boar).
So is there a (simple) way to remove these metadata while leaving the
pictures intact? I'm perfectly fine with long command lines and
shell/Python/Perl scripts, it's just that I don't know where to start
and I'm a little lost with all these EXIF, IPTC and XMP things :)
I don't understand why you would want to remove the metadata. What
harm is it doing?
The problem is that if I add a simple tag to a photo, the file will be
modified.
But surely if you configure shotwell so that it doesn't write metadata
this will no longer happen?
(reading your post to the end :) )- If it's just a case of being tidy,
you could look at jhead and exiftool. The --purejpg option for jhead
should in theory do it, but I've had more success with exiftool. I used
to use:
|exiftool -all= *
|when I was using f-spot and it didn't like certain camera headers
http://www.bluecedar.org.uk/?p=76
Dougie
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