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Title: Creating Directory tree based on EXIF DateTimeOriginal
Post by: wodbutchr on March 11, 2011, 02:14:24 PM

Hello,
I am new to this forum so forgive me if this question has already been answered.

I am trying to recover pictures from an ancient computer crash, I just kept the hard disks and used Recuva to do low level disk scans for pictures. Then I used exiftool to create the EXIF DateTimeOriginal from the FileModifyDate for each picture.
Now my problem is to create a directory structure year/month/day/picture.jpg from the EXIF date.
Can exiftool do that? Suggestions mucha appreciated.
exiftool is great program well worth the steep learning curve!
Andre

Title: Re: Creating Directory tree based on EXIF DateTimeOriginal
Post by: Phil Harvey on March 11, 2011, 02:18:53 PM

Hi Andre,

Take a look at the 3rd and 4th examples "RENAMING EXAMPLES" section of the application documentation (https://exiftool.org/exiftool_pod.html#renaming_examples), and let me know if you have any questions.

Also note that you should use double quotes around command-line arguments if you are running in Windows.

- Phil

Title: Re: Creating Directory tree based on EXIF DateTimeOriginal
Post by: wodbutchr on March 11, 2011, 02:34:50 PM

Woaw, problem solved.
I can throw away all the photo management tidbits I found on the internet and embrace exiftool!

Thanks again,
Andre

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