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#Install exiftool install#
#Install exiftool zip file#
#Install exiftool upgrade#
#Install exiftool mac#

So you could just remove the existing plugin and download it again, but carefully saving the zip file to Downloads and not letting Safari unzip it. If Safari unzips the download, it looks like it can sandbox the plugin's Exiftools component. 4.2 Did the browser unzip the download? Mainly Mac. Apart from avoiding such permission problems, Dropbox makes the plugin and updates available on more than one computer.

#Install exiftool install#

This can cause the above problems and I prefer to install plugins somewhere less-special and completely-separate from Lightroom folders, for example in a subfolder in Documents or on Dropbox. Some people install the plugin in a Modules folder inside the Lightroom program file.

Putting the plugin in Applications is not recommended.

Do not keep the plugin in the Downloads folder.

Have you installed the plugin in a folder regarded as "special" by the operating system? While the plugin dialog box may display normally, the OS could prevent the plugin's embedded Exiftool component from running. When you examine the files in another app such as Adobe Bridge, is metadata not changing? 4.1 Is the plugin installed in a "special" folder which causes the operating system to stop Exiftool from running?

#Install exiftool upgrade#

To get around this, either upgrade to 2.1 (released Jul 24, 2021) or you can install Exiftool separately.

#Install exiftool mac#

More recent versions of Mac OS, especially from Catalina and Big Sur, have changes which mean that earlier versions of this plugin (before 1.29) may not operate correctly because the plugin's Exiftool component hasn't got execute permissions. Are you using Mac? Have you installed Exiftool? Then if you're changing the camera maker or other fields, there's a second check box to confirm you really want to do this. At the bottom of the screen, write directly into raw files needs to be enabled.

But this means that LR's Read Metadata would ignore the sidecars because it expects EXIF to be in the raw files, not sidecars. 2.2 Are you processing raw files?īy default, the plugin doesn't write directly to raw files - it follows Adobe's practice by saving toxmp files for proprietary raw files. In recent versions there has been a message to prompt you, but people sometimes stop noticing it. When the plugin appears to be functioning but nothing appears to be happening in the Metadata panel, the first question to ask is if you have remembered Metadata > Read Metadata? EXIF info doesn't change in LR 2.1 Have you remembered to do Metadata > Read Metadata after running the plugin? This indicates that you haven't installed the plugin properly, so remove it, reinstall and be very careful to point to the lrplugin folder, not to a file inside it. Often on Windows there is a message about "Malfunctioning" that refers to a file called a. 1.3 If the menu is not there, check the Plugin Manager They grey out the plugin name, but the real menu is the line below. You’ve been misled by Adobe’s way of displaying the menu.

Lots of people look under the File > Plugin Extras menu. This plugin's menu command is under Library > Plugin Extras. Do you not see the plugin menu? 1.1 Are you looking for it in the right place? The plugin name is shown, greyed out, but the real menu is the line below.ġ. Adobe’s way of displaying the menu is misleading.