Hello everybody,
This is my first post and I hope someone can help me.
I have a lot of *.CR2 files and I want to rename it to date-time-and-custom-text.
But how should I do that? This work but without custom text.
exiftool -r -d %Y/%m/%d/%Y%m%d-%H%M%S%%-c.%%e "-filename<CreateDate" *.CR2
Example: "IMG_3440.CR2" --> "20190708-085938-By-Andries.CR2"
Is that possible?
Greetings,
Andries.
Hi Andries,
Try this:
exiftool -r -d %Y/%m/%d/%Y%m%d-%H%M%S "-filename<${CreateDate}-By-Andries%-c.%e" -ext cr2 .
- Phil
Thank you for your very quick response.
this works great!
Is this also possible with 2 variable in a cmd file?
e.g. batchrename.cmd d:\source-photo-directory e:\destination-photo-directory
(I think in this direction but this is not working yet)
batchrename.cmd
exiftool -r -d %Y/%m/%d/%Y%m%d-%H%M%S "-filename<${CreateDate}-By-Andries%-c.%e" -ext cr2 %1 %2
%1 = source-photo-directory
%2 = destination-photo-directory
Or do I have to create a new question for this?
Greetings,
Andries ;D
You would do it like this in a .bat file:
exiftool -r -d %%Y/%%m/%%d/%%Y%%m%%d-%%H%%M%%S "-filename<${CreateDate}-By-Andries%%-c.%%e" -o %2 -ext cr2 %1
- Phil
Thanks again for your very quick response!
It almost works. The source files are going well.
The destination folder goes wrong.
The target files go to the current location where I run the bat file.
e.g. If I run "batchrename.cmd" in "c:\temp" with the followed params:
batchrename.cmd d:\source-photo-directory e:\destination-photo-directory
The *.cr2 files are copied to "c:\temp"
(It seems that the exiftool does not do anything with the destination location.)
Also without a batchfile:
exiftool -r -d %Y/%m/%d/%Y%m%d-%H%M%S "-filename<${CreateDate}-By-Andries%-c.%e" -o e:\destination -ext cr2 d:\source
The destination location is: c:\temp ???
Greetz,
Andries
Oh, right. Your FileName specification contains a directory, so it overrides the directory of -o. But the -o is still needed so the file gets copied. This should fix it:
exiftool -r -d %%Y/%%m/%%d/%%Y%%m%%d-%%H%%M%%S "-filename<%2/${CreateDate}-By-Andries%%-c.%%e" -o . -ext cr2 %1
Remove the -o . if you want to move the file instead of copying it.
- Phil
Thanks! This Works 100%
I'm happy. :D
Thanks again.
Greetings,
Andries.