Hi Marty and Darryl,

First Marty: I'm on the PC now, and the easiest thing for me to do was to rename the config file myself and upload it for you. click here to download the zipped (and properly named) config file. Just open the zip file and drag the ".ExifTool_config" file to the same location as your exiftool application. Once this is done you should be able to use the new "basename" tag.

If these files behave differently on smugmug, there must be some other tag that we should be setting. Early in this thread I got the impression there would be more than one we needed to set. If you make another shortcut and add " -a -s -g1" to the Target, you should be able to drop one of your BreezeBrowser files onto it to see everything it contains. Perhaps the filename is stored in multiple locations.

Darryl: If you read through the application documentation (especially take a look at the examples section, expecially the COPYING EXAMPLES for this type of thing), then you will get an idea of what you can do. The %Y,%m,%d,etc date codes can only be used in date format strings, and the %f,%d,%e filename codes can only be used where a filename is expected. This should be clear if you read the documentation, but I must admit there are so many options now that almost nobody has the time to read all this.

I use pp to build the windows executable. All you have to do is specify all of the exiftool .pm and .pl files in the pp command (with the -M option) to force them to all be included in the build. After you do this it works pretty easily. But you are right, you can do a lot with the windows shortcuts. This idea is mentioned in the "Running in Windows" section of the exiftool home page, but admittedly the shortcut is only mentioned as a hint. But this is definitely the way to go, especially since you can customize things like the window characteristics (size,etc) and the number of scrollback lines in some of the more advanced shortcut settings.

- Phil