ExifTool Forum

[Originally posted by katanna on 2008-03-31 14:58:44-07]

Hey all,

I was playing with ExifTool, and was able to do simple command line things (IE: I could copy and paste from the examples in the help document), but I don't know how to do what I want to do.

I want to copy a photos EXIF Create Date and paste it to the files created date/modified date.

So, I have a photo with the following data (taken from ExifTool):
Date/Time Original: 2008:03:22 17:31:02
Create Date: 2008:03:22 17:31:02
File Modification Date/Time: 2008:03:23 19:22:55
Modify Date: 2008:03:23 19:22:54

I want to set the files date created and date modified (in Finder) IE: File Modification Date_Time" and Modify Date (in ExifTool) to 2008:03:22 17:31:02 (the Create Date).

Oh, and I want to do this to several folders worth of photos (I don't mind doing each folder separately, but each folder has several hundred photos in it, so I will need to do folder batches).

Any help is GREATLY appreciated!

Matthew

[Originally posted by katanna on 2008-03-31 15:02:22-07]

... I don't know why this site hates me so much, first it won't let me use any punctuation, then it deletes my line breaks... lets try this again...

Hey all,

I was playing with ExifTool, and was able to do simple command line things (IE: I could copy and paste from the examples in the help document), but I don't know how to do what I want to do.

I want to copy a photos EXIF Create Date and paste it to the files created date/modified date.

So, I have a photo with the following data (taken from ExifTool):

Date/Time Original: 2008:03:22 17:31:02

Create Date: 2008:03:22 17:31:02

File Modification Date/Time: 2008:03:23 19:22:55

Modify Date: 2008:03:23 19:22:54

I want to set the files date created and date modified (in Finder) IE: File Modification Date/Time" and Modify Date (in ExifTool) to 2008:03:22 17:31:02 (the Create Date). Oh, and I want to do this to several folders worth of photos (I don't mind doing each folder separately, but each folder has several hundred photos in it, so I will need to do folder batches).

Any help is GREATLY appreciated!

Matthew

[Originally posted by exiftool on 2008-03-31 15:12:06-07]

Hi Matthew,

ExifTool can write the filesystem modification date (FileModifyDate),
but not the creation date.  I hope this is ok.   The following
example from the COPYING EXAMPLES documentation does
almost exactly what you want:


Just use CreateDate instead of DateTimeOriginal.  Also, add a -r
option to recurse into subdirectories inside of the specified "dir".

 - Phil

[Originally posted by katanna on 2008-03-31 17:26:09-07]

Thanks a bunch!

Even though it gave me a bunch of warnings, it worked.  I was also able to fix one of the folders whose camera had the wrong date... it was off by 28067 hours (3 years).  Thanks to ExifTool, it got fixed!

Matthew