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Hi,
I'm a bit of a newbie so please excuse me if I'm asking a basic question. I installed the Write Metadata plugin, it failed to write metadata back to my jpg files and after a bit of research I found I also needed ExifTool.
I can't for the life of me figure out how to install ExifTool so that Write Metadata will use it. I copied ExifTool.exe to the Write Metadata plugin folder but that didn't help. Is there an installation or registration process I need to follow? I've searched around but haven't found anything helpful.
thanks
-bruce
Piwigo version: 2.7.2
PHP version: 5.2.17
MySQL version: 5.5.37-35.0-log
Piwigo URL: http://
Last edited by eksplorr (2014-12-06 03:56:06)
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Hello, I have the same problem and figure out that you can use Local Files Editor plugin to set the var:
$conf['exiftool_path'] = 'path\to\exiftool.exe';
Let me know if it solves your problem.
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Well, 7 years later it solved my problem. We're evaluating Piwigo on shared webhosting. Exiftool is not installed on that server. But on https://exiftool.org/install.html I read:
Note: ExifTool does not need to be installed to run. Just download and extract either the full Perl distribution on Mac/Linux
So I downloaded it, extracted the .gz and then .tar. With ftp I created a folder exiftool under public_html and uploaded everything. Following the example above I set this line in Local config using the Localfiles Editor plugin > Settings:
$conf['exiftool_path'] = 'exiftool/exiftool';
To make it work I had to change permissions on the exiftool file from 0644 to 0751.
Last edited by willem (2022-10-14 20:55:24)
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