Sorry ’bout that… had an HTML error. Should be fixed now. —Jeffrey

This plugin is for stripping metadata from exported copies. It sounds like you’re looking for my metadata-viewer plugin instead. —Jeffrey

using metadata wrangler 20110628.73

somehow it seems that i lost the info on date/time digitized and original as well as the exif size. basically if i execute the exiftool -a -u -g1 command on an old file i get info in the XMP-exif block. if i do the same on a file i processed today i have no XMP-exif info. no matter what selection i do in metadata wrangler (even preserve all data) i get no XMP-exif block. is this normal ?

thank you.
frank.
Many versions have been pushed out since then, so it’s not fruitful to discuss until you upgrade. If it’s still not working after you upgrade to the most recent version, turn on enhanced logging in the plugin manager, export one image, then send a log along with a note about exactly what is not working the way you expect. —Jeffrey

I have trouble getting the plugin (version 20120114.77) to work in LR4 final (in trial mode) on Win7-64bit. I’m getting the following error:

An error occurred while attempting to run one of the plug-in’s scripts.
This version of the “Metadata Wrangler” plugin is too old for Lr4; please upgrade the plugin. The plugin home page is shown in the “Status” section above.

I auto-installed the plugin to the latest version from LR3.6 and tried a manual install as well afterwards.

2 things I can think of:
- I’m using LR4 in trial mode until the upgrade with the serial number arrives.
- I did a complete reinstall of my system recently after getting a SSD. Afterwards I had to change permissions to my LR-plugin folder to get the auto-updating to work again. While this works now in LR 3.6, maybe there are some other permission issues I have to resolve? I have changed the catalog permissions already, but that did not change anything.

Anyway, thanks for your continued work on all your plugins. They really help a lot.

Marc

Oops, sorry, I simply neglected to update that plugin. I built it on my side, but for some reason never pushed it live. It’s out now. Sorry ’bout that. —Jeffrey

Thanks!

The Metadata Wrangler is a filter for any export, but not an export provider itself. For Zenfolio, you’ll want the Zenfolio plugin. —Jeffrey

As a new user of your Metadata Wrangler plugin for LR2.7, I was wondering if it would be possible to have a kind of “manager” which would allow to strip keywords families using hierarchy?
I may be willing to remove some keywords families in the exported pictures regarding for instance : Continental geolocalisation or atmosphere.
Thank you.

Your better bet would be to simply mark some keywords to not be exported. You can also use the Wrangler’s filtering based upon prefixes or suffixes you use with your keywords. You can also use my run-any-command plugin with exiftool to perform complex custom processing. —Jeffrey

I must have missed it the first time, ’cause I hadn’t been aware of the Exif changes. Thanks for the heads up. I just pushed .73, which now handles serial number, and more. —Jeffrey

**** Error 1

Beim Ausführen eines Skripts des Zusatzmoduls ist ein Fehler aufgetreten. (There was an error while executing the script of the plugin)
BASE:53: attempt to call field ‘?’ (a nil value)

Any ideas?

I’ve seen this a few times, and it always seems to clear up if you restart Lightroom and/or reload the plugin a few times. I’ve never understood why. —Jeffrey

Ah, I see. The upgrade process leaves the old plugin around with a unique name, so that’s what you’re seeing. I didn’t think about the situation when you have the plugins in the Lr system location (since Lr was not designed to have 3rd-party plugins there), but I’ll see whether I can’t do something to mitigate the problem…. —Jeffrey

I use Time Machine myself, but I don’t understand the reference to it (and to backup copies) in the context of plugins. —Jeffrey