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I have a folder with many directories that have pictures and I need to remove the EXIF file.

I used this code and it seems to work but my file size grow for no reason 

find /Users/justinbarrilleaux/Downloads/2015 -type f -name '*.JPG' -exec exiftool -all= {} \;

Any clues how to solve this issue?

Cyrus
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Justin
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    Since `exiftool` by default creates a backup of the original file, are you sure it is the edited files that grow? – etopylight Nov 19 '17 at 14:25

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Are you sure each file grew? Take a look inside your directory, I think there might be more files than before.

As far as I know, exiftool creates a backup for each modified picture. The backups are called filename.JPG_original.

Either delete the backups

rm /Users/justinbarrilleaux/Downloads/2015/*.JPG_backup

or prevent backups in the first place.

exiftool -overwrite_original -all= {}
Socowi
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  • Additional suggestion. You are calling exiftool for each file and this is very slow. See [Exiftool Common Mistake 3](https://sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/mistakes.html#M3). Instead, run exiftool on the directory itself with `exiftool -overwrite_original -all= -ext jpg -r /Users/justinbarrilleaux/Downloads/2015` – StarGeek Nov 19 '17 at 18:03