Hello everyone,
First of all, pardon me if my question got answered before, I tried to find an answer, but was not successful.
Challenge
For pictures in a specific folder I would like to add the tag "to_be_checked" and all the tags it finds on the first matched photo with the same date (not date/time) of the "DateTimeOriginal" in another specific folder. This would help me to import quickly many pictures to an already existing structured photo archive. I am aware that the "first match on date only" approach could lead to false tagging, hence the "to_be_checked" tag.
Example
File to get updated
Path and name: /folder_a/2021-12-04_123112.jpg
Tags: None
First Matched file
Path and name: /folder_b/2021-12-04_011120.jpg
Tags: USA; Sedona
Result
Path and name: /folder_a/2021-12-04_123112.jpg
Tags: USA; Sedona; to_be_checked
and then process the next file. Ideally, files that are already tagged in folder_a should not be processed.
Any idea how this could be done?
I can't think of a way to do this without some external scripting.
The best I can think of is to run exiftool once to extract the date from the files you want to check and use the -p (-printFormat) option (https://exiftool.org/exiftool_pod.html#p-FMTFILE-or-STR--printFormat) to create a BAT/bash script file with the exiftool commands to do the copying.
:'( too bad, I was hoping for some magic here 8)
Thank you very much for taking the time to read my post and to think about the problem. Much appreciated!