instal the new version for apple ExifTool 12.68

I checked the situation where there was GPS data in the image file prior, and it was present after (albeit somewhat rearranged). So, back then, I used ExifTool (versions 12.10 to 12.13 I believe) to write all the data in the sidecar to the image file, using the supplied command line.

GPS data (which was often embedded in the corresponding image file, but not always).

Person tagging (which was never found embedded in the corresponding image file).

The XMP sidecars contained various combinations of: (I lost the face regions, but could live with that.) The best (only?) way I could find to preserve the people tagging I'd done in Apple Photos was to get it to export photos with a corresponding XMP sidecar. Long story short: I'm not specifically trying to update GPS metadata from an XMP to a JPG where the data already exists (why would you? ) This situation is a bit of an edge case of the process I used to extricate ourselves from Apple Photos. The truncation does not occur in versions 12.13, 12.30, and 12.35 (not an exhaustive list). I have seen this truncation occur in versions 12.36, 12.37 and 12.38. (I am wondering whether the comma in the GPS coordinates is confusing these later versions of ExifTool.) The XMP file has its GPS coordinates formatted as below: the GPS coordinates have been truncated to just their degree values. Inspecting the metadata with ExifTool (truncated results, actual GPS coordinates obfuscated): Using ExifTool 12.36, 12.37 and 12.38 (the latest at time of writing), the same command line run against a folder with a single JPG/XMP file pair results in: Using ExifTool 12.13 at the time, this resulted in the GPS metadata being shuffled around a little, but the GPS coordinates were correct after the write. I bulk-updated images in a folder using this command line:Įxiftool.exe -tagsfromfile '%d%f.XMP' -all:all -ext jpg -ext JPG -ext jpeg -ext JPEG -r Some of these XMP files contain GPS metadata. I have some JPG and XMP files originally exported from Apple Photos circa 2019. I think I have found a bug in ExifTool versions 12.36 through 12.38 concerning writing GPS coordinates to an image from an XMP sidecar file.

Instal the new version for apple ExifTool 12.68