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ColleenB
ColleenB

Reputation: 175

Adding to exifdata using undefined tags

I am trying to write some tags to the exifdata of an image, but i keep getting errors. It says that 

exiftool -o /volumes/xsan2/lvis/level1/mjd/58680/camera2/images/LVISCAM2_ABoVE2019_0716_R2002_083194.JPG -GPSDateStamp 2019-07-16 -GPSTimeStamp 23:06:34 -GPSLatitude 62.090340 -GPSLongitude 114.193019 -GPSLatitudeRef N -GPSLongitudeRef W -GPSAltitude 2822.12 -GPSRoll=-2.76 -GPSPitch=-0.19 -GPSImageDirection=-96.38 -GPSImageDirectionRef T -Creator "Nasa's Classic (lvis.gsfc.nasa.gov)" -UserComment "Instrument: NASA's Classic (lvis.gsfc.nasa.gov), Mission: ABoVE2019, Platform: GLF5_N95NA" /volumes/xsan2/lvis/archive/mjd/58680/GLF5_N95NA/camera/classic/LVISCAM1_2019_07_16_051912.JPG

This is the error that i get when i run the command

Warning: Tag 'GPSRoll' is not defined
Warning: Tag 'GPSPitch' is not defined
Warning: Tag 'GPSImageDirection' is not defined
Error: Can't create JPEG files from scratch
Error: Can't create JPEG files from scratch
Error: Can't create JPEG files from scratch
Error: Can't create JPEG files from scratch
Error: Can't create JPEG files from scratch
Error: Can't create JPEG files from scratch
Error: Can't create JPEG files from scratch
Error: Can't create JPEG files from scratch
Error: Can't create JPEG files from scratch
Error: Can't create JPEG files from scratch
Error: '/volumes/xsan2/lvis/level1/mjd/58680/camera2/images/LVISCAM2_ABoVE2019_0716_R2002_083194.JPG' already exists - /volumes/xsan2/lvis/archive/mjd/58680/GLF5_N95NA/camera/classic/LVISCAM1_2019_07_16_051912.JPG
    0 image files updated
    1 files weren't updated due to errors
   10 files weren't created due to errors

How do I define the tags that have errors, And what does the error about creating JPEGs from scratch mean?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2352

Answers (1)

StarGeek
StarGeek

Reputation: 5781

With regards to the JPEG files from scratch errors, your command is missing a lot of equal signs. For example, this part
-GPSDateStamp 2019-07-16
What your telling exiftool is to display the GPSDateStamp tag. Then, since 2019-07-16 is set off by itself and it's not any exiftool command option, exiftool believes you want to process a file named 2019-07-16. What that option should be is:
-GPSDateStamp=2019:07:16
Take note that the date/time formats are supposed to be separated by colons. Exiftool is flexible about such things (see FAQ #5) but the habit might lead to a hard to find error at some point.

The problem with the not defined errors is the fact that these tags (GPSRoll, GPSPitch, GPSImageDirection) are not tags defined by the EXIF standard. Exiftool doesn't know how to write these unless there's a definition written for them. If you download the exiftool example config file, save it to the same directory as exiftool, and rename it to .ExifTool_config, this will add definitions so you can write GPSRoll and GPSPitch.

For the last one, I think the actual tag you want to use is GPSImgDirection, not GPSImageDirection.

Upvotes: 2

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