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Title: Create EXIF when none exists
Post by: dafu on May 02, 2011, 01:58:23 PM

I have a hundred or so iPhone pictures that weren't saved with any metadata save the bare bones. I tried using exiftool on OS X 10.6 to add a capture date using:

exiftool -overwrite_original_in_place '-exif:datetimeoriginal<CreateDate' DIR

But all I get is:

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Warning: No writable tags found - /Users/dafu/Desktop/tp/IMG_1889.JPG

It appears I can't *create* an EXIF tag for these files. Is there any workaround for this?

Thanks!

Dave

Title: Re: Create EXIF when none exists
Post by: Phil Harvey on May 02, 2011, 07:46:19 PM

Hi Dave,

This message indicates that CreateDate doesn't exist in the source file, so there is nothing to copy.

If there is no metadata, only the filesystem FileModifyDate will be available for copying.

- Phil

Title: Re: Create EXIF when none exists
Post by: dafu on May 02, 2011, 08:17:04 PM

Thanks very much, Phil! I understand, now. I set the file modified date to the creation date with a script and then ran exifTool and by gawrsh that worked.

By the way, just how many years have you been refining ExifTool?

:D

Dave

Title: Re: Create EXIF when none exists
Post by: Phil Harvey on May 03, 2011, 07:43:40 AM

Hi Dave,

Version 1.0 was released in November 2003, so it's been more than 7 years now. That's 3018 refinements and counting.

- Phil

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