[SOLVED] Struggle how to get an IF statement integrated

[minime]

Hi all,

I am almost there, but I struggle with my "IF" part. So far I have this:

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exiftool -r "-datetimeoriginal<filename" -P -overwrite_original C:/Images/

but I would like to only let it run IF:

1) datetimeoriginal is null
2) datetimeoriginal =! filename (without extension, in the format of "20071006_153426.jpg")

Should be simple, but would appreciate if someone could enlighten me on this one.

Many thanks!

[StarGeek]

Try this.  You need at least ver 12.22 in order to use Basename or have taken it from the example.config file.
exiftool -P -overwrite_original -if "not $DateTimeOriginal or ${DateTimeOriginal;DateFmt('%Y%m%d_%H%M%S')} ne $BaseName" "-datetimeoriginal<filename" /path/to/files/

The DateFmt helper function formats the DateTimeOriginal to be the same as the BaseName of the file and then compares the two.

[minime]

Thank you kindly, that worked!

Is there a way to write what it did to a text file? I would have expected an update to 15 files, but it updated 17 and I would like to investigate what it really did.

[StarGeek]

To see everything that exiftool is doing, you could add the -v (-verbose) option and redirect the output to a txt file.  Using -v2 or -v3 will give you a lot of details.

[minime]

Thank you very much!!