EXIF Information NOT shown in Finder?

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EXIF Information NOT shown in Finder? Fri Dec 16, 2022 7:37 am • by metaning
Hi,

Just wondering if it's possible for Hazel to read EXIF information that doesn't show up when you Get Info on a file in Finder?

For example, videos taken on iOS devices have an EXIF for Device Model, but Finder doesn't show it. Aperture can search & find on it, you can see it in A Better Finder Attributes etc.

Is there a known workaround for this?

Thanks.
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Re: EXIF Information NOT shown in Finder? Fri Dec 16, 2022 10:45 am • by Mr_Noodle
You'll need a script/program to extract that info. I think a common program is exiftool though unsure whether that works for video files as well.
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Re: EXIF Information NOT shown in Finder? Fri Dec 16, 2022 11:02 am • by metaning
Mr_Noodle wrote:You'll need a script/program to extract that info. I think a common program is exiftool though unsure whether that works for video files as well.


ahh, so if all I wanted to do was to capture the file based upon its exif so it could be filtered to structured subfolders... what would be the way forward... using another app / script to extract the info, then applying that info back to the file, for every file encountered?
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Re: EXIF Information NOT shown in Finder? Mon Dec 19, 2022 11:07 am • by Mr_Noodle
You could write a script to extract that info and then export it to Hazel as an output attribute. This can only be done for AppleScript or JavaScript. See the manual for more details.
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