Hello,

how to remove meta/EXIF from your pics.

Open your terminal by either clicking its icon in panel.
Or
Hold down Ctrl and Alt and Press t (Ctrl + Alt + t)
Copy/paste, or type in to your terminal -

Type in your password when asked.
Press Enter on keyboard.

To read the meta data/EXIF on your photo, copy and paste or type in to your terminal -


Replacing  your-image.jpeg with the jpeg's actual name.

Now you know what data is there you can remove it by, copy/paste or type in to your terminal -


If you wish to, you know from the first command how to check your file again now.

If you've been totally running amok with the camera and have many images to do.
Navigate in terminal to the directory where your pics are and copy/paste or type in to terminal.
To remove the meta/EXIF from all files with jpeg extension in your directory -



Have you used other image file formats?
To remove the meta/EXIF from all image files in this directory, copy/paste or type in to your terminal -



Should you wish you can just remove some area of the data.



Do not forget to also do



to remove XMP data.

You may also want to remove coordinates by do



Now we may want to make it look less obvious, to deter checking, by adding in fake information to the fields, ideas anyone ?

Please add any improvements, alternative methods, and additional information you find on this topic to the thread.

Thanks for reading, I hope it was interesting.


Additional Info

where we use the star *, this is working as a "wild card", it is used in other areas/ways in terminal and so can be interesting as a start point for further searches about using a range of commands this way.

Hi

Looking through htop to see where my memory has gone and came across 64 or 66 instances of :-

/urs/sbin/console-kit-daemon --no-daemon

Each of these reports .2% MEM - which adds up to quite a lot on a 4gb machine

I understand the console-kit is required on a machine running X so that console login is available - but 64 times????

Any clues on how to trim this down a bit would be welcome - thanks.

UPATE
Removed console-kit - everything seems to work fine so far.

Hi.

I often use LL when I manage my photo and video collection. I like to have control over the files last modified date, so if I have say converted an image into another format that new image file format would have set file modification date to the time when converted.

Therefore I manually use terminal and uses the touch command to (for the sake of example I put this name) make photograph.webp get the same modified date as photograph.jpg.

This works for me, but I want to find out if there is possible to do this directly from file manager.

My idea is to set it up somehow so that in file manager I can select two files, and somehow have a menu that call on a command that involve the path of the two files.

Is this possible?

I may not actually have a problem, but want to ask:

I made a copy of a current installation as per "Creating a Live ISO of your installation" (in the manual).
I then copied this to a new usb as per "Writing the Linux Lite ISO to USB in Linux and OSX".
I got the expected terminal confirmation, 1.8Gb copied.

Using GParted to look at the usb I get "Unallocated" and "invalid partition table - recursive partition on /dev/sdb"

I'm assuming that's ok, and if the need arises I can boot from that usb drive!?

I just installed LL on a family member's desktop. The box has both wired and wireless NICs. Because of where the computer is located internet access is via the wireless NIC. The wired NIC is used for the LAN.

How can can I set up the wireless NIC to be the default internet point of access. Currently I have disable the wired NIC in order to access the internet.

Many thanks for reading.

I'm posting this in this forum because I regard it part of Installing Linux.
After successfully installing and updating LiLi 3.8, I did a Set a Restore Point using the Welcome menu, after I installed all the Updates.

The next thing I did was configure my Ethernet & Wireless LAN and my Brother Printer. Both worked fine.

Then I thought I would install the only Update Drivers---listed Display Driver for my Nvida laptop Display Adaptor. It said it was tested--not sure what that means!
Now when it boots, I get to the Yellow background with the feather, then the screen goes black and after maybe 15seconds, a screen pops up that says the Nvida driver is not registered and I should change the driver kernel. And it sits there--never getting into Linux.

I tied to use the Safe Mode, but I did fiddle with adding a new Username & Password. linux is the default username, but I don't know the default password. An Enter does not work, LiLi does not work, Linux does not work. Even if I could get to Linux with safe mode (I assume it uses the basic display driver), would I be able to restore the system from  my Backup using Systemback, or do I need to use one compatible with the Welcome screen.

Would someone please post, or PM me with the new install default password?

Thanks,
Ron

Hi
I have been struggling with what I guess is a .css thing with a couple of applications.
gthumb is one I use the most and it is the horrible dark icons that seem to be a symbolic link to nowhere as I cannot find them on my system - new installation of 3.6
That along with the border that does not honour the window manager selection is just annoying - OK it works but I'd like to get it all looking as though it belonged together.
I have researched .css but have to admit it is way above my understanding. I see what it is doing but lack the skills to make a working solution. It is possible that it needs more Gnome components to be installed - rather not though.

Hi, this is my mother's PC, I don't know what she did but its desktop now looks like this

Restarting has no effect on it, how do I restore the normal desktop?
Thanks

2day I found myself a HP Pavilion laptop running on Windows10 64bit

I made a flash USB stick with rufus and the Original ISO.
On some way the laptop refuses to boot from flash. During systemboot I can see it wants to boot from flash (slashing light on usb-stick) but after a few blinks it chooses to boot from hard disk.

any tips ont this one?

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