What's New in 1.2.0

APPLY — THE READER WRITES
- Write Excel edits back to the original files
- Review, confirm the file count, then write
- Empty cells = leave unchanged; tags are not deleted
- No renaming, no image-size writes, no MakerNotes
- ExifTool keeps _original backups

EXPORT AS BEFORE
- New list, append, or template
- One-click footer actions and atomic saving

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What’s new

• Finder Tags and XMP Rating chips in Data Viewer and Compare (hover to show, click to pin)
• Location inspector: GPS, copy coordinates, Apple Maps and Google Maps (no live Mac location)
• Data Viewer file preview in the titlebar: side pane, detach, zoom, video
• Pending Save to Files, with a prompt if you close with unsaved edits
• Compare files stay loaded when you switch modes
• Appearance and Help in the titlebar; reset settings to defaults

Pro is required to write metadata (including Rating). Tags only change the Finder color label.

• A help menu has been added
• GUI & text optimizations
• Code optimization

ExifTool Reader v1.2.0
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What's New in this Version:

Metadata View Modes
   - Four views: Overview, Advanced, Expert, and Hex
   - Switch with ⌘1–⌘4 or the View menu; the file is re-read automatically

Find in Output
   - ⌘F opens a full-width search bar; ⌘G / ⇧⌘G for next/previous match

Extract Resources
   - Save embedded previews, thumbnails, and related images to a folder
   - Toolbar button or Shift-⌘R; optional subfolder per source file
   - Folders are processed recursively for metadata and extraction

Keyboard & Navigation
   - Tab through all four mode buttons with visible focus
   - Full Screen is now ⌃⌘F (⌘F is Find)

Hex Mode
   - Hex dump and full tag detail; hint shown for large files

ExifTool 13.59 Update:

   - Security update
   - Added a new Canon RF lens (thanks Norbert Wasser)
   - Decode tags from the Sony ILCE-7RM6 (thanks Jos Roost)
   - Decode a new FujiFilm tag (thanks Iliah Borg)
   - Decode a few more DJI protobuf tags
   - Decode a new Ricoh Pentax tag
   - Enhanced -validate option for EXIF-for-XMP tags
   - Fixed bug in -diff feature

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Thank you for using ExifTool Reader!
Support: [LINK:App Store:https://apps.apple.com/de/app/exiftool-reader/id1636199770]

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