Hello
I am stuck on my trial to match photo files per datetimeoriginal
Here is what I am trying to do :
My original photos stored per "trip" directory with sub-directories per camera . Original file name are like IMGnnn.jpg
Sometime ago I organized copy of photo files in sub-directories per day with cameras photos of the day merged. The files are renamed "trip-date-n°" n° =1..999.
Now I want to find the original file that was used for the organized copy. Then I expect to store the original file name in a tag of the organized file
That is why I want to match original and organized by the datetimeoriginal (plus camera model)
What I did so far
First create "hard links " on the original files with name
-d "%%Y-%%m-%%d %%H-%%M-%%S" "-hardlink<%_DirHdl%$IFD0:Model $datetimeoriginal .jpg"
Now I was expecting to use
-d "%Y-%m-%d %H-%M-%S" -tagsfromfile "X:\zHdlDate\${IFD0:Model} ${datetimeoriginal} .jpg" -FilePath -FileName -ext .jpg
Unfortunately I got this message :
File 'X:\zHdlDate\${IFD0:Model} ${datetimeoriginal} .jpg' does not exist for -tagsFromFile option
The file name 'formula' is ok since replacing -tagsfromfile by -p gives expected result
-d "%Y-%m-%d %H-%M-%S" -p "X:\zHdlDate\${IFD0:Model} ${datetimeoriginal} .jpg"
======== X:/aSouvenirs/Voyages/2014-03_Canaries/14-03-08 Laja (Roque Agando)- Imada/Canaries_14-03-08_007.jpg [1/1]
X:\zHdlDate\COOLPIX P7100 2014-03-08 13-05-17 .jpg
-tagsfromfile does not support "formula", as I discovered in the doc "SRCFILE or FMT", now I understand what FMT means !!
How can I do to do this match ? Thanks for any idea .
Yes. -tagsFromFile does not support tags in the filename string.
I don't have time to think about this right now to see how it could be done, but I'll check back again tomorrow.
- Phil
The only thing I could think of would be to run one passs to create a temp args file with the -p (-printFormat) option (https://exiftool.org/exiftool_pod.html#p-FMTFILE-or-STR--printFormat) and then execute that.
Phil, StarGeek thanks for your answer.
After a lots of trial and even more errors, I think I have got a solution. It is based on hard links on Original files and also on Organized one.
A "HarLnk" directory that contains
Links on Organized files "COOLPIX P7100 2014-03-08 13-05-17 .jpg"
Links on Original files "Orig_COOLPIX P7100 2014-03-08 13-05-17 .jpeg" (same name as organized prefixed by "Orig_" and with extension "jpeg"
The command to copy tags from original to organized is :
exiftool -overwrite_original_in_place -tagsfromfile "%dOrig_%f.jpeg" -IPTC:CopyrightNotice -ext jpg "C:\DateMatch\HardLnk"
overwrite_original_in_place is the key.
Before I found it, it was the file hardlink "COOLPIX P7100 2014-03-08 13-05-17 .jpg" that was updated (and the link broken) and not the target
Result
======== C:/DateMatch/HardLnk/COOLPIX P7100 2014-03-08 13-05-17 .jpg [1/1]
Setting new values from C:/DateMatch/HardLnk/Orig_COOLPIX P7100 2014-03-08 13-05-17 .jpeg
Rewriting C:/DateMatch/HardLnk/COOLPIX P7100 2014-03-08 13-05-17 .jpg...
Editing tags in: APP13 IPTC Photoshop
1 directories scanned
1 image files updated
Now I will run this on hundreds of file and keep fingers cross.
ExifTool is really a great tool thanks Phil.