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ExifTool => The "exiftool" Application => Topic started by: cjalamo on May 09, 2021, 05:52:33 AM

Title: Is it possible just to modify a date without change of size of the file?
Post by: cjalamo on May 09, 2021, 05:52:33 AM
Hi,

I'm changing the dates in the EXIF or CR2 files with

exiftool -alldates+='0:0:0 2:00:00' *.cr2

But I see that all the modified files are about 1MB smaller than the original ones.

Is there any way to modify only the date/time to have same size and only 1(or 2) byte (the +2 in the hours) difference between the original file and the changed one?
(Well really that value times 3, one for each date changed)

Thank you
C.
Title: Re: Is it possible just to modify a date without change of size of the file?
Post by: wywh on May 09, 2021, 07:35:55 AM
https://exiftool.org/faq.html#Q13