give it the FULL path.
a SHELL creates its own environment… so it may or may not be pointing to the “current directory”… it inherits NOTHING from the session that calls it
Since I was struggleing with this issue ever since, I wrote a EXIF reader by myself. You can download it here:
http://meyersoft.de/meyexif-exif-reader-module-for-xojo-aka-realstudio-or-realbasic/