So, I have a lot of photo files that I've downloaded from my online sharing platform which is now closing. I need to set the dates of all the files back to the original upload date, and currently I have managed to use the EXIF data to replace the 'Creation date' for all my camera photos. However there are a lot of Camera Phone photos that need to be changed as well.
All the files are stored in a parent folder for the day of original upload eg - "2017-05-02" . Is there a way to automate all files to have their creation date match this format of the date in the folder they are found ?
The short answer is "yes". There are lots of posts in here which explain how to do this. I'm heading out now so I don't have time to explain, but if you still need help I'll check back again when I return.
- Phil
More info would be needed to give you an exact command, but here's one example (https://exiftool.org/forum/index.php?topic=7272.0) that will pick YYY-MM-DD out of the directory path. That command requires that your current directory not be the same as the files, i.e. you can't use a dot or * for the directory path.