Exiftool Presets (Have I accidentally deleted them)?

[kiwilink]

In the General Discussion and Questions Mario responded with  "delete the XMP using a preset in Exiftool".  I don't see that Preset or anything that deletes the XMP data when I click on Exiftool inside of IMATCH (see attached "Screencapture of Exiftool). Do I have to do this outside of IMATCH? 

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Need help with metadata write-back failing for 181 files
Started by Robert Wheeler, February 13, 2024, 01:44:30 PM

The reason I'm asking is that I have 4 images that will not write back.  I turned on Debug and found the 4 files.  I ran Metadata Analyst on them and I get  Warnings: 'IPTCDigest is not current. XMP may be out of sync'.  I have attached a screen capture of my directory that holds these 4 files.  I have no idea how these .xmp files ended up there and it looks like the .NEF files were renamed " DSC_9415.NEF_original".  I'm assuming its Photoshop related but maybe not.  I'm tempted to just delete all of the xmp files and rename (remove the _original from the files but I thought I should ask first before I do it.  None of the other files in this directory are causing an issue.  I just thought I'd add this background information.  Seeing only four presets in Exiftool makes me think I may have somehow lost several presets that should be showing up so this is why I asked the question.

Thanks

Kiwilink


P.S.  Mario - if you are reading this don't spend more than a few minutes on this.  It is only affecting 4 images and I can open them up and create .jpeg files.  I'm just trying to understand what happened and if I somehow deleted presets from Exiftool within IMATCH.   I have heeded your warning and I don't let other apps mess with my images but these just appeared, and they have been in my database for years.

[Mario]

Use this to recreate the preset:

Delete XMP Metadata

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# im-warn
-overwrite_original_in_place
-xmp=
-charset
filename=UTF8
{Files}

If your file contains legacy IPTC data, the "unsyncable" problem is most likely caused by it. Unless you depend on legacy IPTC metadata, you can use the "Delete legacy IPTC (IIM) metadata" which you also seem to be missing:

Delete legacy IPTC (IIM) metadata

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# im-warn
-overwrite_original_in_place
-iptc:all=
-charset
filename=UTF8
{Files}