[Originally posted by pitt001 on 2009-12-10 03:17:46-08]
I'm new with exiftool. My camera (SD1000) produces both CreateDate and DateTimeOriginal tags. Which of these should I use to rename my files to date/time picture was taken? In other words how do their definitions differ? On the files I checked, both tags had identical date/times.
Also, I want to copy all my jpg files into one folder, then I will run a command to rename the files. Right now image files are in multiple directories named after date files were downloaded to the computer (2009-12-04, 2009-11-30, etc.). I found this (find "sourcedirectory" -iname "*.jpg" -print0 | xargs -0 -i cp {} "destinationdirectory") which works on my linux machine, but can exiftool to this also, that is simpler and I can also use it on my windows machine.
Thank you
[Originally posted by exiftool on 2009-12-10 11:31:21-08]For a digital camera, CreateDate and DateTimeOriginal should be
identical or within a few seconds of each other. By the specification,
DateTimeOriginal should be the time of the shutter actuation, and
CreateDate should be the time that the file was written to the
memory card.
You can rename the files in multiple directories if you want
to save the step of copying them into the same directory. See
the
Writing
FileName and Directory tags documentation for a description of
how to do this with examples. Let me know if you have any questions
after reading this.
- Phil