Hey Folks,
sadly, no person that will is on, or will ever be on Earth is worse at command line than I. It's just how it is. Also, I hunt and peck type so I =will= get the path wrong. I want to adjust the photos by an hours, the auto-adjust for DST didn't work! Also, I'm sure if I try to do this I will manage to change not only all the OS file dates, but something in the fabric of the Universe as well. Dinosaurs went extinct? yeah, that was me and my fumble fingers. Sorry!!
So:
Can I just navigate to the directory and run Exiftool from there? without a path? or maybe just with .. ?
Can someone throw up the line for subtracting 1 hour but leaving the mod date intact? There was some pitfall about doing it on a Mac.
I'd hate to be responsible for all cows blinking out of existence....
:)
-Rudy
Quote from: rudestar on December 11, 2018, 12:03:55 AM
Can I just navigate to the directory and run Exiftool from there? without a path? or maybe just with .. ?
Close. It's just a single dot
. to indicate the current directory. This is a common way to do things and there are some things that just have to be done that way.
QuoteCan someone throw up the line for subtracting 1 hour but leaving the mod date intact? There was some pitfall about doing it on a Mac.
Someone with Mac experience will have to help you there. But take a look at the
Overwrite_Original option (https://exiftool.org/exiftool_pod.html#overwrite_original) and the two options that follow it on the docs page (
-overwrite_original_in_place and
-P (preserve) option (https://exiftool.org/exiftool_pod.html#P--preserve)).
Hi Rudy,
You want to subtract 1 hour from the file modification date/time?:
exiftool -filemodifydate-=1 DIR
instead of typing "DIR", just drag and drop a folder onto the Terminal window.
- Phil