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ExifTool => The "exiftool" Application => Topic started by: ArthurFink on June 06, 2015, 09:19:53 AM

Title: Changing creation -- not change -- date of my NEF files
Post by: ArthurFink on June 06, 2015, 09:19:53 AM
Date was set wrong in my camera, so file creation dates are all in 2013.  When I run
exiftool "DateTimeOriginal+=2:0:0" *.NEF
the change date, and not the creation date, is being set to the right date in 2015.  But when I look at the NEF files on my Mac, it shows them to have been created or changed today.

How can I set just change the creation date year, and not affect the changed date at all?  Can I do it with exiftool?  Or do I need other software?
Title: Re: Changing creation -- not change -- date of my NEF files
Post by: Phil Harvey on June 06, 2015, 11:42:15 AM
Read FAQ 24 (https://exiftool.org/faq.html#Q24) for some help understanding the date/time tags.

There is a round-about way of setting the FileCreateDate on a Mac.  For details, see the notes for the FileCreateDate tag in the Extra tags documentation (https://exiftool.org/TagNames/Extra.html).

- Phil