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Posted on Fri Jun 8 18:09:24 2007 by scottc12
XMP Removal?
Hello I was wondering if ExifTool could be used to completly remove all XMP namespaces if one desired? I have certain files that when XMP is injected they are just over a size threshold and would like to scrub the XMP out. Some of the files have custom namespaces. thanks Scott
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Posted on Fri Jun 8 18:22:29 2007 by themonk in response to 5369
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To remove ALL XMP using the CLI version of exiftool, it is simple as

exiftool -XMP:All= abcd.jpg
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Posted on Fri Jun 8 18:24:21 2007 by exiftool in response to 5369
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Sure. You can do this with either "-xmp=" or "-xmp:all=" on the command line.

- Phil
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Posted on Fri Jun 8 18:27:49 2007 by exiftool in response to 5370
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Thanks Mark, you're faster than me! :)

- Phil
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Posted on Fri Jun 8 18:54:53 2007 by scottc12 in response to 5370
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Wow that was fast.. Thanks everyone who posted. I will give this a try and see what happens.
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Posted on Wed Jun 20 22:31:53 2007 by scottc12 in response to 5370
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Hello Apologize for the delay in responding. I just got around to testing this again and I'm having no luck. when i run ./exiftool -XMP:All=abcd.jpg I get this error yet the file is present admin 531828 Jun 20 15:22 abcd.jpg No file specified Any ideas? Thanks, Scott
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Posted on Thu Jun 21 14:33:37 2007 by exiftool in response to 5494
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Hi Scott,

You forgot the space between the "=" and "abcd.jpg".

The space character displayed by some browsers is very small, so I can understand this mistake.

- Phil
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