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Would something like this do the trick? It will return TRUE if a functioning version of ExifTool (plus, if needed, Perl) is available, and otherwise FALSE.

is_exiftool_available <- function() {
    !is.null(tryCatch(exif_version(), error = function(e) NULL))
}
is_exiftool_available()

If you are not on Windows and using the Windows ExifTool executable, and want to first check whether Perl is available, you could possibly do something like this, which uses the unexported function exiftoolr:::configure_perl():

is_perl_available <- function() {
    !is.null(tryCatch(exiftoolr:::configure_perl(), error = function(e) NULL))
}
is_perl_available()

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That will work perfectly! Thanks so much for your help! 🥇

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@EOGrady21 Great. Glad to hear that!

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