ExifToolGui Portable vs Installer: Which Should You Use? ExifToolGui V6 — Frank Bijnen’s maintained continuation of Bogdan Hrastnik’s Windows front-end for Phil Harvey’s ExifTool — is distributed two ways: portable executables you simply unzip and run, and an installer that sets the program up and can fetch ExifTool for you. The two routes produce the…
Installer Can’t Download ExifTool? Pair It Manually The V6 installer for ExifToolGui — Frank Bijnen’s maintained continuation of Bogdan Hrastnik’s Windows front-end for ExifTool — offers to fetch ExifTool for you during setup. When that fetch fails, you are left with a GUI and no engine: the program is installed, but the separate program it…
ExifToolGui Map Not Loading: WebView2 and OpenStreetMap Checks The map in ExifToolGui — the V6 continuation, by Frank Bijnen, of Bogdan Hrastnik’s Windows front-end for ExifTool — is the one feature with its own extra requirements. Manual geotagging depends on it: you position the map, and the GUI writes that location to your selected files….
File Locked or Read-Only in ExifToolGui: What to Do ExifToolGui edits photo metadata by writing to the file itself, through Phil Harvey’s ExifTool. When Windows or the storage medium will not let the file be written, the edit cannot land — and the refusal has nothing to do with the GUI. This page explains the…
ExifToolGui Changes Not Saving? Causes and Fixes You edited a date, a caption or a set of keywords in ExifToolGui, and afterwards the file shows the old values — or never took the new ones at all. ExifToolGui (the Windows front-end for Phil Harvey’s ExifTool, continued as V6 by Frank Bijnen) writes metadata by handing…
ExifToolGui Won’t Start? Run These Checks ExifToolGui is the Windows front-end for Phil Harvey’s ExifTool — the original GUI by Bogdan Hrastnik, continued today as V6 by Frank Bijnen on GitHub. When it will not start at all, the cause is usually something plain about the setup rather than something deep about your PC: an…
“ExifTool Not Found” in ExifToolGui: Fix the Pairing ExifToolGui is a Windows graphical front-end for ExifTool — and that sentence explains this error. The GUI written originally by Bogdan Hrastnik and continued today as V6 by Frank Bijnen does not contain ExifTool itself. Phil Harvey’s ExifTool is a separate download, and when ExifToolGui cannot find…
