Phil -

I think the limitation may be with the depth of my paths. I successfully dragged and dropped 37 short-named files just now. But short filenames are not the norm for me. Here is a typical path to one of my files:

Q:\__working\Odonata\Anisoptera\Libellulidae\Libellula_luctuosa,Burmeister\2006-0812-2302-00599-Libellula_luctuosa,Burmeister(0119P,perched@cattails,144)-M.jpg

And they're all very deep like this. Does exiftool not reach down to all subdirectories? I'd prefer for exiftool to scan multiple levels of directories than to upset my directory hierarchy. Here is the FILE argument in one of the shortcuts I am using:

Q:\__working\exiftool.exe -r >Odonata -copyright="2007. BugPeople LLC." *.jpg -P -overwrite_original -k

This other example is with the executable:

exiftool(-@ BPBioData.args -overwrite_original -k).exe

The drag and drop feature appears to be limited by filename/path length for the executable, batch files and the shortcuts of both.

Thanks for all of your help. I want to try to find a way to credit you and exiftool on my site. =)

Eddie Dunbar