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ExifTool GUI - metadata editor

#1 Post by AlephX »

[Moderator note: this is the primary ExifTool GUI thread. View database entry]

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http://freeweb.siol.net/hrastni3/foto/e ... oolgui.htm

ExifTool GUI is -surprisingly- a GUI for Exif Tool.

ExifTools can be very useful for the ones who deal with pictures: it shows more metadata tags than any other tool, allows to edit almost any metadata tag, and it is regulary updated.

Both GUI and console applications don´t need installation and don´t use the register. The GUI stores settings locally.

The original page of the ExifTool is:
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

As always in the last times, I would ask an opinion about portability to the other TPFC users! 8)

Thanks in advance!

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#2 Post by Fluffy »

I will say right now that I haven't tested out this app, nor am I going to. What I will say, however, is that I do not endorse its usage and/or distribution in any way, shape or form. Why? Because I can. I could go ahead and lie, claiming that it connects to malware servers and downloads a bunch of crap onto your computer including one annoying bastard that pops up every 5 minutes to advertise dick pills with large, graphic pictures of engorged sections of the male anatomy, but I won't. That wouldn't be professional at all, and it would be a damn lie. I hate liars.

And I love AlephX. He's like an e-brother to me. I consider him my protoge in my more narcissistic moments, though that certainly has no bearing on any aspect of reality since he is in no way my protoge.

If you folks haven't already realized it, this is my expertly subtle method of covering up the fact that I have no friggin' clue what the hell this thing is for. All EXIF means to me is "Korean Exit Sign."

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#3 Post by Local »

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

*sighs* that's gonna keep me laughing all day.
Thanks for the smiles

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ExifTool GUI - image metadata editor

#4 Post by AlephX »

Hi, I propose this application again...
ExiftoolGUI

See also the post: viewtopic.php?t=2637

What's that?
It is an EXIF editor. It is a very useful tool if you are a photographer. The EXIF metadata report many information about a picture like size, camera model, exposure, lens used, GPS data, used software, owner, etc.
This tool can view/edit all the Exif, IPTC and XMP metadata tags, and has batch capability. It can also export and import all these tags.

How to:
just unzip the content of both zip files (exiftool + GUI) both into any folderp. After unzipping ExifTool, you must rename "exiftool(-k).exe" to "exiftool.exe".
Run by doubleclicking on ExifToolGUI.exe

Write settings: to its folder.

ExifToolGUI for Windows, Site: http://freeweb.siol.net/hrastni3/foto/e ... oolgui.htm
DL: http://freeweb.siol.net/hrastni3/foto/e ... oolgui.zip

Exiftool site: http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/
DL: http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exi ... l-7.50.zip


Size: 4.907.096 bytes and 1/2 (I am very precise!!!)

By the way:

Jotti reports (ExiftoolGUI.exe)
A-Squared Found nothing
AntiVir Found nothing
ArcaVir Found nothing
Avast Found nothing
AVG Antivirus Found nothing
BitDefender Found nothing
ClamAV Found nothing
CPsecure Found nothing
Dr.Web Found nothing
F-Prot Antivirus Found nothing
F-Secure Anti-Virus Found nothing
G DATA Found nothing
Ikarus Found nothing
Kaspersky Anti-Virus Found nothing
NOD32 Found nothing
Norman Virus Control Found nothing
Panda Antivirus Found nothing
Sophos Antivirus Found nothing
VirusBuster Found nothing
VBA32 Found nothing
Jotti reports (Exiftool.exe)
A-Squared Found nothing
AntiVir Found nothing
ArcaVir Found nothing
Avast Found nothing
AVG Antivirus Found nothing
BitDefender Found nothing
ClamAV Found nothing
CPsecure Found nothing
Dr.Web Found nothing
F-Prot Antivirus Found nothing
F-Secure Anti-Virus Found nothing
G DATA Found nothing
Ikarus Found nothing
Kaspersky Anti-Virus Found nothing
NOD32 Found nothing
Norman Virus Control Found nothing
Panda Antivirus Found nothing
Sophos Antivirus Found nothing
VirusBuster Found nothing
VBA32 Found nothing

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#5 Post by AlephX »

Sorry, I forgot...

License: freeware.

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#6 Post by infimum »

If you display thumbnails, it creates cache files in the temp folder.

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#7 Post by AlephX »

Hi, Infimum,

thank you for posing that.
Well, it's not nice (it leaves traces on the PC), but it does not seem to impact the portability...

Has anyone tested it? :?:

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#8 Post by Local »

Tried and tested.
It is a nice and simple gui for what appears to be a great program.
(Within minutes I discovered that all my pictures are being credited to my cameras original owner, grrr)

I've only run it through sandboxie so far and it looks like everything is stored in the temp folder, including exiftool.exe.

I dunno why, portable enough though, that's what ccleaner's for.

Congratulation on your return AlephX.
One day and two good and informative submissions.
Stay around a while
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#9 Post by Midas »

Topic update: ExifTool, the underlying CLI only tool, has a new release: v10.91 (changelog at http://owl.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/history.html).

As reported by Baas (viewtopic.php?t=22089), the last ExifToolGUI released was v5.16, dated 2015-04-05 (v5.x changelog at http://u88.n24.queensu.ca/exiftool/foru ... 750.0.html).

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#10 Post by Midas »

ExifTool v11.00 released (changelog at http://owl.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/history.html).

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#11 Post by Midas »

ExifTool v11.99 released 2020-05-11 (changelog at http://owl.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/history.html).

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#12 Post by Midas »

ExifTool Production v12.16 released 2021-01-21 (changelog at https://exiftool.org/history.html).

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#13 Post by rbon »

ExifToolGui rel 6.20 has been released at September 28, 2023

This is a rewrited version of original ExifToolGui by Bogdan Hrastnik.
The project is now hosted at GitHub and it's maintained by Frank Bijnen: first release of new 6.xx brnch is of August 9, 2023.

Links:
• GitHub project page by Frank Bijnen: https://github.com/FrankBijnen/ExifToolGui
• GitHub releases page: https://github.com/FrankBijnen/ExifToolGui/releases
• GitHub direct download 32 bit executable: https://github.com/FrankBijnen/ExifTool ... oolGUI.exe
• GitHub direct download 64 bit executable https://github.com/FrankBijnen/ExifTool ... UI_X64.exe
• GitHub source code (Delphi): https://github.com/FrankBijnen/ExifTool ... V6.2.0.zip
• ExifToolGui onlinde documentation for rel. 5.xx: https://exiftool.org/gui/

Changelog for rel. 6.20
changelog link: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Frank ... ngelog.txt

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Version   Description     Issue
6.0.0.0   Initial commit  
6.0.1.0   Fix Issue #1    Allow changing directory while thumbnails are being
                          created
6.0.2.0   Fix Issue #5    Degree sign in GPS coordinates not displayed correctly
6.0.3.0   Fix Issue #3    Enable places in the find function of the OSM map
          Fix Issue #6    Access violations when closing program, or
                          changing directory, while thumbnails are being generated
                          These started to happen after issue #1. Added a few
                          failsafe's in the code. Issue remains open.
6.0.4.0   Fix Issue #2    Add 'paste' to the context-menu of the shelllist. And
                          solve AV's after pasting.
          Fix Issue #11   Use INI file with V6 in the name. Maybe with the option
                          to transfer settings from V5.
          Fix Issue #12   About should point to exiftool.org instead of
                          queensu.ca and to the github repo.
6.0.5.0   Fix Issue #15   Still Access Violations changing directory in
                          thumbnail mode.
          Fix Issue #16   Change the location of the Ini file.
          Fix Issue #17   Add the possibility to override the ExifTool.exe
                          location in the Preference.
6.1.0.0   Fix Issue #26   Generating Thumbnails fails in Windows 7
          Fix Issue #31   Error in default Workspace (Subject).
          Fix Issue #33   Prepare for 64 Bits
          Fix Issue #36   Add platform Win64
          Fix Issue #37   Generating Thumbnail updates
                          Source code formatted with Delphi Formatter
6.1.1.0   Fix Issue #41   Dont use the Exename as base name for Ini file. 
          Fix Issue #43   Copying multiple files in the Filelist tab does not work
                         (the old version allowed this)
          Fix Issue #45   Delete directory fails from ShellTreeView Contextmenu,
                          because exiftool is running.
6.2.0.0   Fix Issue #48   Better support for Unicode Filenames
          Fix Issue #49   Add commands issued to Log Window
          Fix Issue #50   Saving data with the workspace should retain the same
                          file selected
          Fix Issue #56   Select 1st item in Shelllist rightaway when Directory is
                          changed
          Fix Issue #61   Add option to Exiftool Direct to choose the execution
                          mode
          Fix Issue #65   Add command line parameter to disable saving the INI
                          file
          Fix Issue #73   Fixes for bugs found in Pre-rel.
          Fix Issue #82   Option to add Tags from the All View, Use Doubleclick to
                          add/remove.
          Fix Issue #83   Show warning 'Warning. Only xx results returned' in
                          Metadatalist. Not as a MessageBox
          Fix Issue #85   Add API WindowsWideFile to options and save in INI
          Fix Issue #91   Allow duplicate tag names in Workspace
          Fix Issue #95   Column sorting and user defined fields. ET executed in
                          wrong directory

How to:
1. first unzip exiftool-current_version.zip in the same folder of ExifToolGui
2. rename "exiftool(-k).exe" to exiftool.exe
3. launch ExifToolGui (32 or 64 bit)
4. navigate in Your hard disk and open an existing image.

Portable Freeware Database entry: https://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=1450

Portable test: the Windows executable write tjhe file ExifToolGuiV6.ini in:
--> C:\Users\User_name\AppData\Roaming\ExifToolGui\ExifToolGuiV6.ini

If You delete this file and it's folder il will recreated at new launch.
You can solve this problem with a yaP launcher.

b.t.w.
current version of ExifTool is v12.69 at this link: https://exiftool.org/exiftool-12.69.zip
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rbon wrote: Thu Nov 02, 2023 10:50 am You can solve this problem with a yaP launcher.
Here is the yaP launchers:

ExifToolGuiPortable.ini (for 32 bit executable)

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; configuration file for yaP v0.7.1.6 (http://www.yap.rolandtoth.hu/)
; application name: ExiftoolGui
; version: 6.2.0
; website: https://github.com/FrankBijnen/ExifToolGui/
; direct download 32 bit: https://github.com/FrankBijnen/ExifToolGui/releases/download/V6.2.0/ExifToolGUI.exe

[GENERAL]
application = App\ExifToolGUI.exe
; commandline =
; workdir =\

[BEFORE]
+dir = %AppData%\ExifToolGui
->file = {YAPROOT}\App\ExifToolGuiv6.ini :: %AppData%\ExifToolGui\ExifToolGuiv6.ini :: copy
; dir = %Appdata%\Dir
; file = %Appdata%\Dir\File.ini

[AFTER]
<-file = {YAPROOT}\App\ExifToolGuiv6.ini :: %AppData%\ExifToolGui\ExifToolGuiv6.ini :: move
-dir = %AppData%\Roaming\ExifToolGui :: ifempty
; -dir = %Appdata%\Dir :: ifempty
; -file = %Appdata%\File*

; [QUICK REFERENCE]
....
ExifToolGuiPortableX64.ini (for 64 bit executable)

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; configuration file for yaP v0.7.1.6 (http://www.yap.rolandtoth.hu/)
; application name: ExiftoolGui_X64
; version: 6.2.0
; website: https://github.com/FrankBijnen/ExifToolGui/
; direct download 64 bit: https://github.com/FrankBijnen/ExifToolGui/releases/download/V6.2.0/ExifToolGUI_X64.exe

[GENERAL]
application = App\ExifToolGui.exe :: App\ExifToolGUI_X64.exe
; commandline =
; workdir =

[BEFORE]
+dir = %AppData%\ExifToolGui
->file = {YAPROOT}\App\ExifToolGuiv6.ini :: %AppData%\ExifToolGui\ExifToolGuiv6.ini :: copy
; dir = %Appdata%\Dir
; file = %Appdata%\Dir\File.ini

[AFTER]
<-file = {YAPROOT}\App\ExifToolGuiv6.ini :: %AppData%\ExifToolGui\ExifToolGuiv6.ini :: move
-dir = %AppData%\ExifToolGui :: ifempty
; -dir = %Appdata%\Dir :: ifempty
; -file = %Appdata%\File*

; [QUICK REFERENCE]
......
You can download the file 'ExifToolGui_yaP_32-64.zip' (with icon of program to 16px and 32px, as the original yaP launcher) from:
MediaFire - link: https://www.mediafire.com/file/99y5y6nj ... 4.zip/file

In my previous post I havde missing an detail: these builds (32 and 64 bit) may have some bugs.
for this reason gthe programmer has added to download links two program for monitoring these (eventual) bugs:
author write
Important:
To help Bug hunting there are also Map files released. If you place the Map file in the same directory as the Executable a stacktrace can be copied to the clipboard if an Exception occurs.
Please also provide the stacktrace if you report an Exception.
Links:
• ExifToolGUI.map: https://github.com/FrankBijnen/ExifTool ... oolGUI.map
• ExifToolGUI_X64.map: https://github.com/FrankBijnen/ExifTool ... UI_X64.map

Additional files for manage JPEG headers:
(put these files inside folder \App)
these programs are both command line and will automatically used by ExifToolGui
• jhead: https://www.sentex.ca/~mwandel/jhead/
--> direct download rel 3.04 https://www.sentex.ca/~mwandel/jhead/jhead.exe
• jpegtran: https://www.jpegclub.org/jpegtran/
--> direct download jpegtran.exe https://www.jpegclub.org/jpegtran.exe

I finally point out that exist ExifToolGUIPortable created by John T. Haller - PortableApps:
• Portableapps program page: https://portableapps.com/news/2023-11-0 ... 0-released
--> direct download Portable https://portableapps.com/downloading/?a ... sh.paf.exe
but this portable is only 32 bit.
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#15 Post by JohnTHaller »

The PA.c Package is 32-bit only as the bit doing the heavy lifting, exiftool.exe, is only 32-bit.
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