I've taken all my photos and videos of Icloud, to find out that all the file creation dates are set to the day the file was downloaded from Icloud.
I checked with ExifTool and it seems that all the correct dates and times is stored in the exif data under 'Date/Time Original', but not in the file creation date (as shown e.g. in Finder) it has the wrong date and times.
I've tried to do a few different things with ExifTool, but nothing changed the creation date.
Does anyone know how to do this with ExifTool?
exiftool "-filecreatedate<datetimeoriginal" FILEorDIR
- Phil
Thank you Phil for your quick reply.
It worked out really well except it didn't change any of my .mov's in the folder...
Im pretty sure I read that ExifTool supports .mov
the terminal gives me:
Warning: No writable tags set from /Users/trager/Desktop/photos/IMG_1150.MOV
Warning: [minor] The ExtractEmbedded option may find more tags in the movie data - /Users/trager/Desktop/photos/IMG_0716.MOV
Do you have any idea why this might be the case?
Mov files usually don't have a DateTimeOriginal tag. Instead, you probably want to use CreateDate.
exiftool "-FileCreateDate<CreateDate" -ext Mov FileOrDir
That makes a lot of sense, and it works beautifully.
Also a huge thanks to Phill for creating ExifTool.
Hi guys, I have the exact same issue as ktrager.
I have downloaded ExifTool and it seems like i'ts working but all the commands I am typing in are not working. It says "Pattern not found.
I am assuming I am typing in the wrong commands so can someone please write the right command for me both for VIDEOS and PICTURES.
I am on a Mac and most pictures are HEIC if that matters?
This is one of the commands i've been using: exiftool '-filecreatedate<datetimeoriginal' /Users/admin/Downloads/test/
I've made a document called "test" in my Downloads where i have all the documents that need to change their created date to the actual created date which is in the meta data.
Please help, thank you very much.
What is the output of this command, copy/paste the results here
exiftool -time:all -g1 -a -s /Users/admin/Downloads/test/
"Pattern not found" is not an ExifTool message, so there is something wrong on your command line. I suggest you start with a basic command like this and build up from there until you find out what is causing the problem:
exiftool -ver
- Phil
Edit: I found a thread on another forum with this problem (https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/how-to-use-phil-harveys-exiftool.1348120/). Try dragging and dropping the folder instead of typing the path name.
Also
Quote from: ImAnoob on March 16, 2021, 01:37:42 AM
exiftool '-filecreatedate<datetimeoriginal' /Users/admin/Downloads/test/
You are using fancy quotes.
"" ''In Terminal you need to use straight quotes
" 'See this superuser post (https://superuser.com/a/749083/314998) on how to turn off how the Mac "helps" you. Also, don't copy/paste commands into a word processor like Office Word or Google Docs.
Ooops. I should have seen that
I gotten around to back up all my google videos from my G-drive.
They come as mp4, and I need to change the Filecreation date to the date the videos where shot.
I'm using the below
exiftool "-FileCreateDate<CreateDate" -ext mp4 Downloads/test
The exif tools runs through all the videos but nothing seem to change with the creation date.
Am I doing something wrong?
Define "nothing".
Did you try this command to see if the FileCreateDate was set properly?:
exiftool -filecreatedate -createdate FILE
- Phil
And if you're looking at the "creation date" with a program other than exiftool, you need to recognize that different programs read different tags and would need to use FAQ #3 (https://exiftool.org/faq.html#Q3) to figure out which tag that program is actually reading.
Turns out I'm simply an 'idiot' >:(
I've been looking at 'Date modified' and not 'Date created' - all worked as it should - sorry to take your time.
All works beautifully - thank you