Remove Metadata Composite NOK

[mrtngrsbch]

Metadata Removal > Group Composite does not work

best, Martin OSX 10.15.7 jExifToolGUI 1.7.2 openjdk version "11.0.8"

[hvdwolf]

:smile:

This is quite stupid. The exiftool documentation even mentions that composite data can't be removed.. I will remove it from the options.

[mrtngrsbch]

😧

[hvdwolf]

Strange. I already made a second comment about 1 hour after the first one, but will repeat it now. Maybe I did not click "Comment". :roll_eyes:

I called it stupid (for myself) because I first thought you had picked it from the left checkbox options (and I already wondered why I had put it there). But it's not there. So I assume you choose it from the right "By Group" drop down. I can't control that drop down, although I can and will remove "Composite" from it. However, depending on whether it's a jpg, png, tif(f) or one of the RAW formats, also the writable (= also deletable) tags vary. That makes it extremely difficult to make a proper list. That gets impossible if users load a mixture of jpgs, tiffs, mp4s, pgms and RAWs.

Some tag categories are never writable and I will remove them.

[mrtngrsbch]

Effectively I get it from the list of groups

I was also checking the supported files of ExifTool [https://exiftool.org/#supported] and it is effectively very complicated/impossible to solve that issue

Maybe (maybe) we could put a little text commenting this inconvenience and URL

best

[hvdwolf]

Yes, I will put a text on the right side. I will remove some category entries as they are by default read-only, but I can't remember which ones (apart from composite)

[mrtngrsbch]

🍺

Yes, I will put a text on the right side. I will remove some category entries as they are by default read-only, but I can't remember which ones (apart from composite)

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