I tried
exiftool "-AllDates<DateTimeOriginal" <image_file>
and it returns 1 image files updated but the values stay the same when checking up on them again, I specifically want the CreationDate to be set to the Date at which the photo was taken but I would like best to have all dates set to it.
See the notes under AllDates on the Shortcuts tags page (https://exiftool.org/TagNames/Shortcuts.html)
AllDates is a shortcut only to the three most common EXIF timestamps, CreateDate, DateTimeOriginal, and ModifyDate. It does not edit any other tag.
To write CreationDate, you would use
exiftool "-CreationDate<DateTimeOriginal" /path/to/files/
There is Time:all, but you almost never want to write to that, as it will write to about 90 tags in total in an image file, many of which will not be applicable.
A more targeted approach would use the -wm (-writeMode) option (https://exiftool.org/exiftool_pod.html#wm-MODE--writeMode), specifically -wm cg. This command would update all date/time tags that already exist in the file, but it will not create any new ones
exiftool -wm cg "-Time:All<DateTimeOriginal" /path/to/files/
Thank you so much for your help!
However, I tried using
exiftool "-CreationDate<DateTimeOriginal" /path/to/files/which again in return gave me 1 image files updated but it didn't actually change the date created on the file that I changed. Then I tried using
exiftool -wm cg "-Time:All<DateTimeOriginal" /path/to/files/But all that did is returning
0 image files updated
1 image files unchangedwithout any error whatsoever. What am I doing wrong?
The problem is usually that you are writing the wrong date/time tag.
Quote from: bl4ze on August 05, 2023, 06:41:20 AMbut it didn't actually change the date created on the file that I changed.
ExifTool did change the date if it said the file was updated. Why do you say it didn't change?
Use this command to see all date/time tags in the file:
exiftool -a -G1 -s FILEAnd be sure you are writing the correct one.
- Phil