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#Mac exiftool install install

It’s a little brute force just to get rid of geotag info, but it does appear to work with minimal fuss still as of WordPress 4.9.2. Run next command to fix the dates in all the files inside the folder (recursively) exiftool -r -FileModifyDateyou run into errors, check out the exiftool FAQ.

Re-run the command from (1) to check that you’ve done the deed.

This will unceremoniously delete anything suffixed with “_original.” We should scrub those away, since they still contain geotag data, and will still be available to anyone who cares to list your image directories.

Exiftool will rename any file it modifies to “filename” in case you screw something up.

The print statement probably isn’t strictly necessary, but might be useful if exiftool errors out. printf ‘%p\n’ -type f -exec exiftool -GPSLatitude \ (Note: these all take a while, since exiftool processes only about 3 files/sec regardless of whether it’s modifying them).įind.

#Mac exiftool install install

Alternately, you could install it on your Mac with homebrew: brew install exiftool .Īfter SSHing to my host, I cd ‘d to wp-content/uploads where WordPress stores all your media files. The host I use already has it installed on my server, so I did most of this on that machine via SSH. So, realizing that most of my blog post images are tagged with the location of my house, what should I do about it? Driving ExiftoolĮxiftool is a command line application. WordPress, for some reason, doesn’t bother. The more conscientious avenues of sharing like Facebook and Instagram make a point of deleting all such info before serving images to the public. I realized recently that most of the shot-on-iPhone images I post to the internet have geolocation info still embedded in them. Even as someone who generally tries not to piss people off on the internet, I feel we can agree it’s best opsec practice to avoid leaving sensitive information like a home address places where you’re bound to lose track of it.