On 17 October 2011 13:21, Thomas Jost <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi list, > > I've been using Shotwell for several months now and I really like it. > Lightweight and efficient -- just what I like on my computers running > Arch Linux. > > When I switched to Shotwell, I enabled the option to write tags and > other metadata inside the photo files. Since then I realized that it's > probably a bad idea when you want to do regular backups. (Right now I'm > using unison to backup and sync the DB and pictures on several > computers, but I'd like to switch to a real VCS like git/git-annex or > boar). > > So is there a (simple) way to remove these metadata while leaving the > pictures intact? I'm perfectly fine with long command lines and > shell/Python/Perl scripts, it's just that I don't know where to start > and I'm a little lost with all these EXIF, IPTC and XMP things :)
I don't understand why you would want to remove the metadata. What harm is it doing? Note that all digital pictures have such data for the date taken and so on. Colin _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
