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ExifTool => The "exiftool" Application => Topic started by: rtatet on March 27, 2011, 07:09:05 AM

Title: Setting EXIF Metadata (or renaming/moving a file) from Filesystem's DateCreated?
Post by: rtatet on March 27, 2011, 07:09:05 AM
Hello and thanks for this amazing utility.

I essentially need to do this:

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exiftool -r -d %Y/%m/%d/image_%H%M%S.%%e "-filename<filemodifydate" DIR

Except I need all date information (in -d %Y/%m...) to come from the filesystem's DateCreated value (not the date modified as in the example above).

Is this possible?

Thanks in advance!
Title: Re: Setting EXIF Metadata (or renaming/moving a file) from Filesystem's DateCreated?
Post by: Phil Harvey on March 27, 2011, 08:21:02 AM
Sorry, no.  The filesystem creation date is not available on all platforms, and I haven't yet implemented the necessary platform-specific code to read this in Windows, so it isn't available via ExifTool.

- Phil
Title: Re: Setting EXIF Metadata (or renaming/moving a file) from Filesystem's DateCreated?
Post by: rtatet on March 27, 2011, 06:28:27 PM
OK -Thanks for the prompt reply!
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