Hi,
In my photo collection, I have many pictures with an incomplete CreateDate tag that is not understood by google photos. For example:
exiftool -s IMAGE0018.JPG yields following lines (and google photos uses ModifyDate instead of CreateDate...)
ModifyDate : 2010:03:02 22:58:35
DateTimeOriginal : 2003:03: 00:00:00
CreateDate : 2003:03: 00:00:00
Most pictures have a correct CreateDate tag which I do not want to modify. Any ideas to detect the incomplete CreateDate tags and modify them to e.g. the first day of the month?
When I copy CreateDate to allDates, with exiftool "-alldates<createdate" IMAGE0018.JPG day 0 is filled in:
ModifyDate : 2003:03:00 00:00:00
DateTimeOriginal : 2003:03:00 00:00:00
CreateDate : 2003:03:00 00:00:00
But google photos does not like day 0, so I would need the result:
ModifyDate : 2003:03:01 00:00:00
DateTimeOriginal : 2003:03:01 00:00:00
CreateDate : 2003:03:01 00:00:00
Can you help me with a command line to do the detection and correction of incomplete CreateDate tags?
Thanks!
jvp.
Sure, try this:
exiftool "-DateTimeOriginal<${DateTimeOriginal;s/:( |00) /:01 / or $_=undef}" "-CreateDate <${CreateDate;s/:( |00) /:01 / or $_=undef}" FILE
This will fix the day for DateTimeOriginal and CreateDate if it is blank or 00, and won't modify files that are already OK.
- Phil
Thanks Phil, this seems to do the trick!
You made an excellent piece of free software with exiftool, which I already used indirectly through GPicSync to geotag pictures.
But now I experienced how you also take the time to answer newbie questions and help people forward. Thanks again!
jvp.
Hi all, I am quite new to exiftool and what to do the same as described in the post, but I get an error message saying: Warning: No writable tags set from ./Film
I used the following command in Windows:
exiftool "-DateTimeOriginal<${DateTimeOriginal;s/:( |00) /:01 / or $_=undef}" "-CreateDate<${CreateDate;s/:( |00) /:01 / or $_=undef}" .\Film_309_2001-02_Carlotta_008.jpg
Can you show the output of this command for your file?:
exiftool -a -G1 -s -time:all FILE
- Phil