Remove LR develop via Exiftool

It's 50,000 jpegs and tiffs that are not currently in LR but all have develop metadata copied from DNGs as a result of copying from Exiftool. I copied newly revised KW and captions from the DNGs to the tiffs and jpegs, and the develop metadata came with it. I'd rather not load all 50k in LR just to clear the metadata.

Thanks

Anyone? I seem to have a knack for asking questions that no one knows the answers to.

Re: Remove LR develop via Exiftool     

Maybe people think you've already received a perfectly-good answer?

Pointless snarky replies are not appreciated

Try

 

exiftool -XMP-crs:all= foldername

 

I am not 100% sure. Test it on some copies of files before.

 

P.S. "crs" = "camera raw settings", see here: http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/TagNames/XMP.html

Thanks, will give it a try now

It was not a good answer. I asked a very specific question, for a good reason, because that is what I want to learn how to do. I'm well aware of the option of bringing them into Lightroom. I don't know why people feel compelled to second guess and patronize people in forums. If you don't have anything relevant to say about the question why waste everyone's time posting a response.

"Messing around with Exiftools isn't something I'd recommend for those who need to ask questions like yours."

This is ridiculously patronizing and insulting. I'm amazed you felt fit to post that. This isn't YouTube. FYI I asked on the exiftool forum and no one there knew, including the software author, so keep your snide remarks to yourself.

Irrelevant, incorrect, not the fastest or the easiest, and not what I asked. If you just want to flame people's posts and tell them how stupid they are that's your business.