Phil, wish the world had more like you in it. All working smoothly here. I purged my system of any and all instances of exiftool , re-downloaded and installed the executable version. exiftool(-k) , kept the ",exe " OFF the name 'cause for some reason, my system does all it stuff without hta, created my shortcut, wrote in target thus :

. Batch works perfect, no originals created, upload to SmugMug ( pic sharing site ) and all went into proper caption fields. And I'm just old regular painting my house type guy. You'd be amazed how many PHOTO IT SUPPORT TYPES say this can't be done. 2 QUESTIONS : ONE. ) Why does someone need original backups of the images. Am I missing something dire ? TWO. ) How get rid of .JPG created in iptc version of the file name ? I tried looking around the documentation on the site, couldn't find. World is just one phil harvey less depressing in its' inanity, Marty (voicelit)