
In the terminal enter the following lines: in future steps, replace #.# with that number.
#Exiftool recursive analysis full#
If successful an information message about exiftool should pop up.īasic instructions on installing exiftool on a mac can be found under the Full Perl Distribution section here:ĭownload Image-ExifTool dstribution The file should have a name like "Image-ExifTool-#.#.tar.gz", where #.# is the version number. To check if these steps were successful go to the Command Prompt and type "" and press enter. Click to edit that variable and add C:\Windows\exiftool to the end. If you are using an earlier version of windows go to My Computer->Properties->Advanced->Environmental Settings. If you are using Windows 8 go to the Control Panel->System->Advanced System Settings-> Environment Variables. In the files you downloaded, move the folder "lib" and the file "" to C:\Windows\exiftool In the directory C:\Windows create a directory called "exiftool" On Windows you need to add exiftool to your path.īasic instructions on installing exiftool can be found under the Full Perl Distribution section here:ĭownload Image-ExifTool distribution and unzip the file. There is a little bit of preparation required for this program to work with ExifTool properly.

Instructions for ExifTool can be found here: Preparing exiftool:
#Exiftool recursive analysis install#
ExifTool:ĮxifTool is a program written by Phil Harvey to read and write the meta information contained in files.įor this program you want to install the Image-ExifTool distribution (This should be the first Download button on the page)ĭocumentation for ExifTool can be found here: A CSV report and an XML report of the ExifTool analysis will be placed in a subfolder of each processed bag titled /data/meta. Code by Caitlin Donahue program will automatically run ExifTool on the folders contained within a directory supplied by the user.
