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Justin
Justin

Reputation: 111

Mass remove exif from pictures

I have a folder with many directories that have pictures and I need to remove the EXIF file.

I used this code and it seems to work but my file size grow for no reason 

find /Users/justinbarrilleaux/Downloads/2015 -type f -name '*.JPG' -exec exiftool -all= {} \;

Any clues how to solve this issue?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 648

Answers (1)

Socowi
Socowi

Reputation: 27215

Are you sure each file grew? Take a look inside your directory, I think there might be more files than before.

As far as I know, exiftool creates a backup for each modified picture. The backups are called filename.JPG_original.

Either delete the backups

rm /Users/justinbarrilleaux/Downloads/2015/*.JPG_backup

or prevent backups in the first place.

exiftool -overwrite_original -all= {}

Upvotes: 2

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