Image-ExifTool - How to COPY files and not move them with Exiftool ?

Posted on Tue Sep 2 16:42:49 2008 by raoulj
How to COPY files and not move them with Exiftool ?
Hello,

I'm now using EXIFTOOL EXE for Windows 7.41.

I'd like to COPY all files from my CF and SD cards to specific directories on my hard drive, in the a directory D:/photos/originals/%{model}/%{serialnumber}/%Y/%Y%M/%Y%M%D... (Filename and extension will remain unchanged.)
I want to copy because I only erase the CF/SD files when I have at least 2 copies.

This copy would be done only if the file doesn't exist already.

I also want to build/update (ie APPEND TO) a txt file (one per directory) containing a (great) number of tags from each of the copied photos. I use -T -@... to extract those tags.

My questions :

1. How to COPY and not MOVE files ?
2. Is it possible to do all in one line (to avoid reading the card twice and to update tags from files that are actually copied only)

To make things a little worse, I have (a lot of) files from 10D, 1D2 and others, both RAW and JPEG...

Well, I tried several things but it doesn't work so far...

Thanks for your help - if you have some time...

Raoul
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