Tommy-Geenexus/exif-eraser

Option to overwrite original file

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It would be great

Like -overwrite_original option from exiftool

It would be great

Like -overwrite_original option from exiftool

Implementing this is not as straight forward as one would hope, due to the file handling on Android. I will leave this open for consideration, but for the time being this is considered low-priority.

if overwrite isn't possible is it doable to have an option to auto-deleted the original after task done?

or should i open a new issue to suggest that?

if overwrite isn't possible is it doable to have an option to auto-deleted the original after task done?

Auto-delete and overwrite are the same thing implementation-wise.
Both require write permission access to an image.

Wjxfi commented

the official miui gallery uses this when I modify files

I don't know why I said that, but now you know it's possible

This is implemented (as auto-delete), with the downside being that it does not work with file provider images (shared and photo picker), which means another configuration has to be added which enables the old file selection behaviour.