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Image-ExifTool
Posted on 2007-06-22 14:00:36-07 by jean
Modifying the IPTC metadata
Hello I am using exiftool.exe v 6.91, Windows XP and 2000. When i try to modify the value of an existing IPTC tag. eg: exiftool -IPTC:City="Test" essai.jpg I get the following error message: Error while attempting to call Image::ExifTool::Photoshop::WritePhotoshop Can't locate Image/ExifTool/WritePhotoshop.pl in @INC (@INC contains: CODE(0xf92fcc) CODE(0xdccda4) CODE(0xdccedc)) at (eval 26) line 1, (EXIFTOOL_FILE2) chunk 11. (no problem for modifying EXIF and XMP fields) the file WritePhotoshop.pl exists in my temp folder (c:/temp/par-Jean/cache-exiftool-6.91/inc/lib/image/ExifTool/WritePhotoshop.pl)
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Posted on 2007-06-22 14:51:02-07 by exiftool in response to 5509
Re: Modifying the IPTC metadata
Do you have other versions of ExifTool installed? If so, delete them and try again. Also try deleting all your temporary files in case someone they got corrupted. I have only seen this problem once before and it was an interference with another ExifTool version that was installed in a different location.

- Phil
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Posted on 2007-06-22 14:58:57-07 by jean in response to 5511
Re: Modifying the IPTC metadata
I deleted all the temp files, i have only one exiftool.exe, downloaded from yout web site. And i still get the error :-( The error occurs only with IPTC fields, with all the files i tried.
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Posted on 2007-06-22 15:13:30-07 by exiftool in response to 5512
Re: Modifying the IPTC metadata
Darn.

Did you try this on Windows XP or 2000, or both? It really should work on Windows XP, and has been very well tested on that platform.

As another test, try downloading version 6.90 to see if it works. Although unlikely, it is possible that your 6.91 download was corrupted somehow. Changing versions will also put the temporary files in a different directory.

Just one more thought: Your hard disk isn't nearly full is it? This can cause problems when the temporary files are unpacked.

- Phil
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Posted on 2007-06-23 05:56:45-07 by jean in response to 5513
Re: Modifying the IPTC metadata
I test on 2000 and XP. It works with Exiftool 6.89 (both XP and 2000) It fails with Exiftool 6.91. Between each test i deleted all the temp files/folders created by Exiftool. My hard disk is not full :-)
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Posted on 2007-06-23 12:07:46-07 by exiftool in response to 5516
Re: Modifying the IPTC metadata
Thanks for this report. I think the most likely cause is that your 6.91 distribution got corrupted somehow because I can't think of anything I changed between 6.89 and 6.91 that could possibly cause this problem.

If you can't get 6.91 working by erasing the temporary files and re-downloading then re-installing, then perhaps the thing to do is to wait for 6.92 (which should be out within a week or so), and with any luck this will solve the problem.

- Phil
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Posted on 2007-06-24 05:56:16-07 by jean in response to 5519
Re: Modifying the IPTC metadata
Phil, thank you for your reply, i will wait the v 6.92 I installed Exiftool 6.91 on a PC with XP that never heard of Perl before and i reproduce the problem :-( One last small question: the error is about WritePhotoshop.pl but the tag is an IPTC tag ?
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Posted on 2007-06-24 11:35:35-07 by exiftool in response to 5524
Re: Modifying the IPTC metadata
Very odd. If you used a freshly downloaded version of exiftool 6.91, then this points to a problem in that distribution and not a conflict. This worries me. I'll do a bit of testing here myself to see if I can synthesize your problem.

IPTC information is stored inside the Photoshop APP13 segment of a JPEG image.

- Phil
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Posted on 2007-06-26 01:05:00-07 by exiftool in response to 5524
Re: Modifying the IPTC metadata
Well, I've had a few adventures while trying to reproduce your problem, but I'm sorry to say that I haven't managed to shed any light on this situation.

I dug out my PC and discovered that it had been infested by bugs!

Akkkkk! Bugs in my PC! Ewwwww.

Well, it wasn't all that bad, but I find it really funny that my Windows laptop is buggy. Doh! Sort of the opposite of ironic. LOL. I did some surfing to figure out what they are... turns out my PC is infested with book lice. Little white specks crawling all over my keyboard and LCD screen. So I spent yesterday afternoon trying to rid my bug infestation from the PC and my storage cabinet. I think I solved that problem anyway, but here is what happened when I tried to reproduce yours:

I re-downloaded the 6.91 distribution and used it to write some IPTC information. No problem. Then I deleted inc/lib/Image/ExifTool/WritePhotoshop.pl from the temporary par directory... Still no problem. It turns out that the WritePhotoshop.pl file that is used is actually called 142cebc5.pm (odd I know, but then I don't claim to know the inner workings of the PAR module). Anyway, when I erased that file and tried again it was just re-extracted automatically and everything worked fine again. The only way I was able to break it was to specifically corrupt this file, but then I got a different error message. I was not able to do anything to generate the error you got.

So it is still a mystery, and all I can do is hope that 6.92 works for you when it is released later in the week.

- Phil
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Posted on 2007-06-30 06:07:45-07 by jean in response to 5545
Re: Modifying the IPTC metadata
Phil The IPTC modification works fine now :-)
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Posted on 2007-06-30 10:31:31-07 by exiftool in response to 5586
Re: Modifying the IPTC metadata
Excellent. Thanks for the update.

There must have been something that went wrong with the installation of the previous version. It would have been nice to know exactly why, but I'm glad it works now.

- Phil
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