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Do I need to clean these pics
 

I have taken some pics of items on my iPad, they haven't been anywhere near photoshop, or anywhere else like that. I have used this ipad previously on a banned account however, and I don't want to do factory reset on it because I am not the only family member using it and others have stored details on it that they loose if I do a complete reset on it.

So my query is do I still need to use exif cleaner or batch purifier on these new pics that are now stored on this iPad? Do have a seperate camera that I could re photograph the items with ready for starting to list them on new ebay account. Obviously don't want to get linked to old banned ebay/PayPal account so taking the view better to be safe than sorry.

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Always use EXIF cleaner / Batch purifier regardless. Better safe than sorry

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I would do it because t takes 2 seconds. Why risk it?

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Yes I did suspect that Callidus and SilentHill, I guess we can never be sure what may be lurking on the devices we use that can potentially add some nasties to our pics just as we are about to innocentlly add them to our accounts.

Wish it would only take me a couple of secs to do as well, I have never used either exif cleaner or batch purifier before so it is going to take some time to get adept at using them!

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Well, as long as they are new pictures and you use exit cleaner you should be perfectly fine no need to restore your iPad.

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Yes that is the ideal scenario sin531, finding the easiest way to clean up the pics.

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I also have a Mac computer and a PC so it's a little bit different on the Mac platform.

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Yes that is what I was thinking, I am going to be listing on my recently wiped and reinstalled laptop, but it is just so convenient to take pics on this iPad. I have been prompted to look into this closer today because I was trying to list some things on Amazon, but that was proving a little difficult due to their stance on limited categories. Should be much easier to list them on ebay once I get to grips with a simple data purifier for the pics. The limited category in question was only cosmetics as well so not anything risky.

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There's nothing to learn...

You drag your pictures into Batch Purifier, select all the tickboxes, click clean and overwrite original files.

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Hehe Callidus, that very description you have given there makes it sound more complicated than ever to me!!

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If using windows PC then use jpgstripper its easiest.
Copy your pictures from your ipad to your computer. Open up jpgstripper, and drag the files onto jpgsripper. That's it!

http://www.steelbytes.com/?mid=30

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You might have hit the nail on the head there aniseed, that sounds like an ideal plan for sorting out cleaning up my pics on the very device I will be listing them on.

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It is incredibly easy on all devices. I upload the entire folder, click "all" and then click overwrite original.

Takes maybe 10-15 seconds tops.

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Incredibly easy is relative yankee, to having a certain amount of prior knowledge, which I increasingly find I simply do not have!

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just do it! lol

Easier than loading pics to ebay. By leaps and bounds

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If I manage it with the MAC system, you can do it too.

:thumb:

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Yep your right there GB I'm going to have to take the plunge and go for it.

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ITS EASY!!! so easy you wont believe it.

with exifcleaner you go to add images. then click the button that says Quick clean !

all done.

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So how come it didn't look that easy when I looked on exif cleaner, sounds like I need to look again.

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Right everyone on here who said it just takes couple of seconds to exif clean these photo's, my iPad's Safari browser cannot download any of these microdate cleaning apps, exif cleaner cannot be downloaded to it, and nor can anything else that comes up when I use google search to look for exif cleaner type info. So what is next in this ridiculously difficult process of trying to clean up my pics before I start adding them to my ebay accounts.

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Earlier you said you were going to move the pics to a PC and then upload, so what is the problem?

Take pics, email them to your PC and then clean then in a few seconds :)

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Right yes that is what I am going to have to do Yankee because this iPad is a nightmare to do anything like photo cleaning on.

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Rosie there has to be a cleaner via mac. I am not saying you should but not cleaning them is "probably ok" :)

I would prefer you find something to clean them. If not find another program to open them and rename them :) GOOD LUCK

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My iPad was struggling so much with getting to grips with exif cleaner and batch purifier, that I took my laptop that has vista on it round to my son, he has a snazzy speedy set up on his computer and got bother exif cleaner and batch purifier downloaded and installed instantly on his setup, one thing with that we both noticed is that the name so therefore the identifier on the computer is not removed, all the other metadata was removed, but the computer name and some digit type code under that name stayed and that was with both of those cleaner sites, surely it would have been removed both of those as well, or do they not matter, find that hard to believe.

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if I am using images from 'google images' do I still need to clean them. I have used them on my suspended account, but if I am using them from a clean computer now are they safe to use? Some of then I have uploaded to photo bucket to get a url, so if I got a new photo bucket account and reuploaded them and got a different url would they be OK? I am using a MAC too.

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Yes you will need to clean your pics as you used them on a previous suspended account shaggydoo, you can't be to careful and they will have some metadata in them from the old account. When they are in photo bucket you can use exif cleaner or batch purifier lite.

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Use an offsite exif cleaner, just go to google and type in "exif cleaner", this way you can keep the files on your iPad.

or, if you have access to a Windows 7/8 PC, a much easier, more efficient way is to download BatchPurifier, then,open it, and on the main screen, click add and find all the files you want the EXIF cleaned from. Click clean and it's done within a few seconds.

One thing I can add is take the time to learn BatchPurifier and exif deletion on your PC, it is much faster and trust me, you will be doing this constantly if you make new stealth accounts and add photos from a shared device.

Every time you upload photos to your accounts from your iPad, you will need to do this. Efficiency is key to success in the long run. Even small things like using Batch Purifier will save you time; that time saved adds up, and allows you to focus on other things and make more money.

Hope this helps you! :thumb:

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Agreed, I have finally got batch purifier working on my vista laptop and now that has been done it is very easy to use and does give a great sense of relief that don't need to worry about any possible metedata linking on my pics.

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Nice! Now in the future, you are just a few clicks away from cleaning all exif data for Ebay. Also, I believe if you right click on a file->, there is one called "batchpurifier" in the shell you can use directly. This cleans it immediately without having to open up the software. Little things to cut time down really help! :)

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Yes thanks techdawg, good login name by the way, going by the length of time it took me to get to grips with cleaning my pics successfully 'techdawg' would never ever be an apt name for me !!