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No, I would not expect that it would delete your file. identify -format %m, /Users/kgorin/identify_test.mp4 This is not correct syntax. There should be no comma . Try That's a typo, works the same. We can reproduce the problem you posted and have a patch in ImageMagick 6.9.0-8 Beta available by ...

I get why it can't identify the file, but deleting the file is definitely not expected behaviour, isn't it?

Hello, 'identify -format %m' deletes file if it's empty and have .mp4 extension ➜ ~ identify -format %m, /Users/kgorin/identify_test.mp4 identify: delegate failed `"ffmpeg" -v -1 -i "%i" -vframes %S -vcodec pam -an -f rawvideo -y "%u.pam" 2> "%Z"' @ error/delegate.c/InvokeDelegate/1314. identify: ...