Hi,

This should work. Try adding the -v2 option -- you'll get a lot of output, but you should be able to see exactly the new tags that are being written to the CR2 image. Something must have changed because you say the new CR2's were created. (If nothing changed, exiftool won't create new CR2's using this command.)

I tried your exact command here and it transferred a whole bunch of stuff, including the IPTC and GPS tags from the JPG to the CR2.

I suggest that the first refinement could be to specify: "exiftool -tagsfromfile test/%f.jpg -iptc:all -gps:all ..." to copy just IPTC and GPS tags.

- Phil