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I was going to entitle this thread 'Why do computer instructions always tell you things that are not true? Is it only me?' But the theme is too vast so a manageable particular question:
This happens in various applications: I have A and B on screen. I want to, in fact instructions tell me to, drag and drop A, or something from A, into B. But as soon as I click on A to do this, B vanishes from the screen!
What is the general principle I am missing? Something that I should generally be doing and I am not?
Now the immediate issue and example. Frequently I want to delete EXIFS data on images that I post publicly. (If you look up any site about EXIFS, it will start with about 3 pages explaining why you might want to do that).
With Windows I had a very straightforward and easy way with an app called EasyEXIFS deletion. It worked, was easy, It was evident when it had done its job, it was free. On the Mac I have found EXIFpurge and IMT EXIFremover. These have none of the qualities just mentioned. I did not manage to download an EasyEXIFS for Mac.
But rooting around I found that you do not need any of these apps, and should be able to do the required using an already installed app called ImageOptim. But I cannot drag and drop an image into it because of the problem explained in the second para.
I met the same problem a lot using the Mac photo app. There I found that the photo had to be in an album to drag and drop it. The photo I want to clear of EXIFS is in an album (specially created for the purpose contaning copy of photo, so as not to delete anything in the original.)
PS - then whether if I do manage to drag-and-drop I will be able to do anything is another question. By a different procedure without drag and drop I do manage to get the photo with label WXYZ1234.jpg inside the imageoptim thing but find no handle to do anything with it! Back to my first line.
This happens in various applications: I have A and B on screen. I want to, in fact instructions tell me to, drag and drop A, or something from A, into B. But as soon as I click on A to do this, B vanishes from the screen!
What is the general principle I am missing? Something that I should generally be doing and I am not?
Now the immediate issue and example. Frequently I want to delete EXIFS data on images that I post publicly. (If you look up any site about EXIFS, it will start with about 3 pages explaining why you might want to do that).
With Windows I had a very straightforward and easy way with an app called EasyEXIFS deletion. It worked, was easy, It was evident when it had done its job, it was free. On the Mac I have found EXIFpurge and IMT EXIFremover. These have none of the qualities just mentioned. I did not manage to download an EasyEXIFS for Mac.
But rooting around I found that you do not need any of these apps, and should be able to do the required using an already installed app called ImageOptim. But I cannot drag and drop an image into it because of the problem explained in the second para.
I met the same problem a lot using the Mac photo app. There I found that the photo had to be in an album to drag and drop it. The photo I want to clear of EXIFS is in an album (specially created for the purpose contaning copy of photo, so as not to delete anything in the original.)
PS - then whether if I do manage to drag-and-drop I will be able to do anything is another question. By a different procedure without drag and drop I do manage to get the photo with label WXYZ1234.jpg inside the imageoptim thing but find no handle to do anything with it! Back to my first line.
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