Want to move all photos with no exif timestamp to a new directory

Started by gameguy56, April 29, 2021, 11:18:51 AM

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gameguy56

I need to do a recursive search down through all folders in a directory and move the photos without an exif timestamp to a different folder so I can go through and evaluate them. Seems like this should be fairly straightforward but I actually am having a hard time getting to understand how to do something to images without tags in ExifTool as opposed modifying images based on data they have.

Thank you for your help, anyone reading this.

StarGeek

Try
exiftool -if "not $DateTimeOriginal and not $CreateDate" -Directory=/path/to/nodates/ /path/to/source/

This assumes there won't be any files with the same name.  If that were the case, instead of Directory, you would have to use this to add a copy number
-Filename=/path/to/nodates/%f%-c.%e

This command would be for Windows CMD.  If some other shell, change the double quotes into single quotes.
"It didn't work" isn't helpful. What was the exact command used and the output.
Read FAQ #3 and use that cmd
Please use the Code button for exiftool output

Please include your OS/Exiftool version/filetype