I don't think things are set up correctly. My home directory is as follows: .ActivePerl .rnd Movies .CFUserTextEncoding .sversionrc Music .DS_Store Applications Pictures .Trash CPA Archive Public .Xauthority CPA iView Cat Reader Sites .bash_history Desktop ppm4.log .cshrc Documents .lpoptions Library My local/bin directory is: Image-ExifTool-6.66 frombin tobin dfont2res ps2pdf ufond fondu showfond I'm just guessing but don't I need an exiftool file (folder?) in my local/bin directory somewhere?? I'm assuming that you wanted me to run the commands you sent replacing 'phil' with the name of my home directory--which is 'home'--here's my terminal session: yubana147:~ home$ u88:~/source/qsno_cvs home$ printenv PATH -bash: u88:~/source/qsno_cvs: No such file or directory yubana147:~ home$ u88:~/source/qsno_cvs home$ printenv PATH -bash: u88:~/source/qsno_cvs: No such file or directory yubana147:~ home$ -bash: u88:~/source/qsno_cvs home$ printenv PATH/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/Users/home/bin:/usr/local/bin -bash: -bash:: command not found yubana147:~ home$ u88:~/source/qsno_cvs home$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/exiftool -rwxr-xr-x 1 home home 88398 Dec 15 07:36 /usr/local/bin/exiftool -bash: u88:~/source/qsno_cvs: No such file or directory yubana147:~ home$ u88:~/source/qsno_cvs home$ which exiftool /usr/local/bin/exiftool -bash: u88:~/source/qsno_cvs: No such file or directory yubana147:~ home$ u88:~/source/qsno_cvs home$ exiftool -ver 6.66 -bash: u88:~/source/qsno_cvs: No such file or directory yubana147:~ home$ Thanks for all your help. Pedro