Image-ExifTool - Re: different Makernote Problems

Posted on Fri Apr 6 02:13:21 2007 by exiftool in response to 4775 (See the whole thread of 4)
Re: different Makernote Problems
Hi Bozi,

Sorry for not recognizing the problem sooner (especially sorry because I reverted the automatic makernote fixing in case this feature was causing problems).

The new behaviour is as designed, and is due to a feature that was added in version 6.69 which gives you more flexibility over how the missing tags are handled. From the history:

Jan. 8, 2007 - Version 6.69 - The -p option no longer suppresses error and warning messages

And to quote the new -p documentation:

If a tag does not exist, the output value is set to '-' if the -f option is used. Otherwise a minor warning is issued and the line with the missing tag is not printed. However, if the -m option is used, minor warnings are ignored and the line is printed with an empty tag value.

So now you get a choice of 3 ways to handle missing tags.

- Phil
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