Any way to prevent EXIF location data from showing on photos?
By Bethany Amborn on Friday, 29 July 2016
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Some of my users noticed that their locations were pinpointed and displayed in their uploaded photos. I hadn't ever even noticed that happened, and have since disabled the saving of this data. However, for all the photos that have already been uploaded (several thousand), this data still shows if it was uploaded with the photo.

Is there any way to prevent the site from showing this, even when it exists? People definitely do NOT want their addresses shown like this.
I had the same issues:
Easysocial > settings > photos > General: disable "Import EXIF data"

I never did find a way to remove the data from ES on pictures already uploaded.. I ended up using a shell script to do that with exiftool
Dennis Lloyd
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Friday, 29 July 2016 03:34
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Hi Beth,
Unfortunately there are no settings to hide EXIF location data from showing in the photos info.
Can you download my attached fix file and apply it into the following directory?
JoomlaFolder\components\com_easysocial\themes\wireframe\photos\info.php
I just removed the code responsible for showing the address. This is just a temporary fix. I will log this issue in our tracker and see if the developers can come up with something about this in future versions. Hope this helps.
Thanks for your input too, Dennis.
Raymond
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Friday, 29 July 2016 13:58
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Hello,

Is this issue yet resolved? Location data are shown by default on each photo.
Is there a setting to disable this, or I have to replace the info.php file?

Thanks
S.
B.M.
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Wednesday, 03 May 2017 02:32
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Hey B.M,

Currently we do not have this setting yet, you can override this php file into your current template, so it will not get reverted when you update next release version.

JoomlaFolder/templates/YourCurrentTemplate/com_easysocial/photos/info.php
Arlex Wong
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Wednesday, 03 May 2017 13:25
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JoomlaFolder/templates/YourCurrentTemplate/com_easysocial/photos/info.php


Maybe you mean JoomlaFolder/templates/YourCurrentTemplate/code/com_easysocial/photos/info.php ???
B.M.
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Wednesday, 03 May 2017 20:00
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Hello,

Sorry for the confusions earlier. The path which Arlex provided is almost correct but there was a missing /html/ portion. It should really be:


JOOMLA_FOLDER/templates/JOOMLA_TEMPLATE/html/com_easysocial/photos/info.php


Those folder in CAPS needs to be replaced accordingly to your template
Mark
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Wednesday, 03 May 2017 21:51
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Control has updated the code now to not display locations.
This information will also not be imported on upload any longer.
--Control--
MD King
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Tuesday, 15 August 2017 10:00
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Thanks head up on this.
Arlex Wong
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Tuesday, 15 August 2017 11:05
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