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General => Metadata => Topic started by: sheroazure1 on May 23, 2015, 02:55:33 PM

Title: Date Time Original
Post by: sheroazure1 on May 23, 2015, 02:55:33 PM
Dear, Sir..i have used my exif to trace metadata from picture that i took from twitter, but i was so confuse when i try to find date time original from a picture because in exif date time original is the same with the date that i download the picture, i want to find the real date time original but i could not figure it out, can anybody help me please? thank you
Title: Re: Date Time Original
Post by: StarGeek on May 23, 2015, 04:41:24 PM
You may be looking at a date/time in the System group, which are data that is part of the filesystem for that file, not part of the image.

According to Twitter (https://support.twitter.com/articles/20156423-posting-photos-on-twitter#tag-settings), Exif data is removed from the image (scroll down to "What happens to the Exif data for my photo?").
Title: Re: Date Time Original
Post by: sheroazure1 on May 23, 2015, 10:17:28 PM
thanks for the fast response Sir, I'm looking for the real date/time the photo was taken (using smartphone or camera)...but I guess twitter did erased the real data..can we get the real data back?
Title: Re: Date Time Original
Post by: Phil Harvey on May 24, 2015, 06:03:11 AM
If they erased it, then it is gone.
Title: Re: Date Time Original
Post by: sheroazure1 on May 24, 2015, 10:07:10 AM
so we cannot return the metada data if we have deleted it? no tool that can do it in this world?
Title: Re: Date Time Original
Post by: Phil Harvey on May 24, 2015, 10:17:19 AM
It would be harder than bringing a dead person back to life.  More like creating a dead person from thin air, and I'm no Frankenstein.
Title: Re: Date Time Original
Post by: sheroazure1 on May 24, 2015, 10:30:05 AM
so dont hope much, right?   :(