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Hello,

i am using Hazel in combination with Exiftool to manage my pictures.
I have a rule created to change the author as metadata with exiftool. The rule was already working but after a while it is not working any more.

Attached the debug log:

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023-01-27 13:31:37.998 86Z3GCJ4MF.com.noodlesoft.HazelHelper[66373] DEBUG: Timer scheduled for folder /Volumes/Eigene Dateien/Eigene Dateien/Bilder/PP Chris Mobile/01 Income Mobile at 4001-01-01 00:00:00 +0000
2023-01-27 13:31:38.001 86Z3GCJ4MF.com.noodlesoft.HazelHelper[66373] DEBUG: Thread 0x7f8c29704740: Task removed: [67596]
2023-01-27 13:31:38.770 86Z3GCJ4MF.com.noodlesoft.HazelHelper[66373] DEBUG: Thread 0x7f8c29704740: Received events (
        {
        date = "2023-01-27 12:31:38 +0000";
        path = "/Volumes/Eigene Dateien/Eigene Dateien/Bilder/PP Chris Mobile/03 - PP JPG & Videos/23-01-25 22-41-45 4436.jpg_exiftool_tmp";
        shouldDoFullScan = 0;
    },
        {
        date = "2023-01-27 12:31:38 +0000";
        path = "/Volumes/Eigene Dateien/Eigene Dateien/Bilder/PP Chris Mobile/03 - PP JPG & Videos/23-01-25 22-41-45 4436.jpg";
        shouldDoFullScan = 0;
    }
) for stream at path: /Volumes/Eigene Dateien/Eigene Dateien/Bilder/PP Chris Mobile/03 - PP JPG & Videos
2023-01-27 13:31:38.770 86Z3GCJ4MF.com.noodlesoft.HazelHelper[66373] DEBUG: Error resolving symlinks for path /Volumes/Eigene Dateien/Eigene Dateien/Bilder/PP Chris Mobile/03 - PP JPG & Videos/23-01-25 22-41-45 4436.jpg_exiftool_tmp:, No such file or directory
2023-01-27 13:31:38.771 86Z3GCJ4MF.com.noodlesoft.HazelHelper[66373] DEBUG: Error resolving symlinks for path /Volumes/Eigene Dateien/Eigene Dateien/Bilder/PP Chris Mobile/03 - PP JPG & Videos/23-01-25 22-41-45 4436.jpg:, No such file or directory
2023-01-27 13:31:38.771 86Z3GCJ4MF.com.noodlesoft.HazelHelper[66373] DEBUG: Thread 0x7f8c29704740: Run worker for folder: /Volumes/Eigene Dateien/Eigene Dateien/Bilder/PP Chris Mobile/03 - PP JPG & Videos
2023-01-27 13:31:38.771 86Z3GCJ4MF.com.noodlesoft.HazelHelper[66373] DEBUG: Task already running for folder: /Volumes/Eigene Dateien/Eigene Dateien/Bilder/PP Chris Mobile/03 - PP JPG & Videos
2023-01-27 13:31:38.982 86Z3GCJ4MF.com.noodlesoft.HazelHelper[66373] DEBUG: Thread 0x7f8c29704740: Received events (
        {
        date = "2023-01-27 12:31:38 +0000";
        path = "/Volumes/Eigene Dateien/Eigene Dateien/Bilder/PP Chris Mobile/04 - Photos - Dupes JPG/23-01-25 22-41-45 4436.jpg";
        shouldDoFullScan = 0;
    }
) for stream at path: /Volumes/Eigene Dateien/Eigene Dateien/Bilder/PP Chris Mobile/04 - Photos - Dupes JPG
2023-01-27 13:31:38.982 86Z3GCJ4MF.com.noodlesoft.HazelHelper[66373] DEBUG: Thread 0x7f8c29704740: Run worker for folder: /Volumes/Eigene Dateien/Eigene Dateien/Bilder/PP Chris Mobile/04 - Photos - Dupes JPG
2023-01-27 13:31:39.079 hazelworker[67611] Running worker (v5.0.7) for folder with identifier: 16777228-237712.
2023-01-27 13:31:39.082 hazelworker[67611] ###main load address: 0x105c8f000
2023-01-27 13:31:39.082 hazelworker[67611] ###Hazel Core load address: 0x105cc7000
2023-01-27 13:31:39.082 hazelworker[67611] ###Noodle load address: 0x105de3000
2023-01-27 13:31:39.082 hazelworker[67611] ###CK load address: 0x105d9d000
2023-01-27 13:31:39.094 hazelworker[67611] DEBUG: Program is licensed.
2023-01-27 13:31:39.117 hazelworker[67611] DEBUG: Error reading file /Users/chrisbenk/Library/Application Support/Firefox/prefs.js: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=260 "The file “prefs.js” couldn’t be opened because there is no such file." UserInfo={NSFilePath=/Users/chrisbenk/Library/Application Support/Firefox/prefs.js, NSUnderlyingError=0x7fc4db4191c0 {Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=2 "No such file or directory"}}
2023-01-27 13:31:39.127 hazelworker[67611] DEBUG: Could not find entry for default_directory in Chrome preference file.
2023-01-27 13:31:39.129 hazelworker[67611] DEBUG: Could not read Mail preferences.
2023-01-27 13:31:39.130 hazelworker[67611] Processing folder 04 - Photos - Dupes JPG
2023-01-27 13:31:39.130 hazelworker[67611] DEBUG: Pausing to wait for things to settle down.
2023-01-27 13:31:39.999 hazelworker[67599] DEBUG: Could not read Mail preferences.
2023-01-27 13:31:39.999 hazelworker[67599] DEBUG: About to process directory /Volumes/Eigene Dateien/Eigene Dateien/Bilder/PP Chris Mobile/03 - PP JPG & Videos
2023-01-27 13:31:40.002 hazelworker[67599] DEBUG: .DS_Store: File is hidden/invisible. Skipping.
2023-01-27 13:31:40.002 hazelworker[67599] DEBUG: Writing out DB file for /Volumes/Eigene Dateien/Eigene Dateien/Bilder/PP Chris Mobile/03 - PP JPG & Videos to path: /Users/chrisbenk/Library/Application Support/Hazel/16777228-236826.hazeldb
2023-01-27 13:31:40.003 hazelworker[67599] DEBUG: Directory /Volumes/Eigene Dateien/Eigene Dateien/Bilder/PP Chris Mobile/03 - PP JPG & Videos processed in 0.003705 seconds
2023-01-27 13:31:40.004 86Z3GCJ4MF.com.noodlesoft.HazelHelper[66373] DEBUG: Checking events for path /Volumes/Eigene Dateien/Eigene Dateien/Bilder/PP Chris Mobile/03 - PP JPG & Videos, folder 03 - PP JPG & Videos
2023-01-27 13:31:40.005 hazelworker[67599] DEBUG: Received file event: {
    date = "2023-01-27 12:31:38 +0000";
    path = "<NoodlePathSet: 0x7fa934432dd0>\n  /Volumes/Eigene Dateien/Eigene Dateien/Bilder/PP Chris Mobile/03 - PP JPG & Videos/23-01-25 22-41-45 4436.jpg : 0\n  /Volumes/Eigene Dateien/Eigene Dateien/Bilder/PP Chris Mobile/03 - PP JPG & Videos/23-01-25 22-41-45 4436.jpg_exiftool_tmp : 0\n";


Here is the rule in Hazel:
https://postimg.cc/F7qBP1DY

Would be great to receive a solution for this issue!

Thanks

The rule isn't coming through. In particular, the script you are using would be helpful here.

Unfortunately the screenshot in the original post has not worked so I just changed it to the link.

Here is the shell script that is executed by the rule:

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exiftool -author="Chris" -P -overwrite_original_in_place "$1"

I suggest using the full path to the exiftool program. Also, if there are any other environment variables exiftool needs, you should set them in the script.

Thanks, this worked!

But what I still don't understand is that at some of the rules to use the script the path "/bin/bash/" is required. Only for setting the author the path "/usr/local/bin/" is working.

But what is the difference between both of them?

Finally, I changed author to artist and now it works. It seems that author is a IPTC tag that makes some issues.

Thanks for your support!