Renaming Files based on DateTimeOriginal and a custom text

[irinaonline]

"-FileName<EXIF:DateTimeOriginal TEST" does not seem to work. What is the syntax to just add a custom text to the filename?

[Phil Harvey]

"-FileName<$EXIF:DateTimeOriginal TEST"

[irinaonline]

thanks. worked. but with "-FileName<$EXIF:DateTimeOriginal 0WL1" "%%Y%%m%%d %%H%%M%%S%%%%-c.%%%%ue" he swallowed my extension now

[StarGeek]

Move the Count and Extension variables out of the date format and into the rename part.  The percent signs only need to be doubled once in there:
exiftool  "-FileName<$EXIF:DateTimeOriginal 0WL1%%-c.%%ue" -d "%%Y%%m%%d %%H%%M%%S"

Example (not from bat file, so % not doubled)

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C:\>exiftool "-testname<$EXIF:DateTimeOriginal 0WL1%-c.%ue" -d "%Y%m%d %H%M%S" X:\!temp\Test3.jpg
'X:/!temp/Test3.jpg' --> 'X:/!temp/20151212 121212 0WL1.JPG'
    0 image files updated
    1 image files unchanged

[irinaonline]

perfect, thank you!

[alexy frangieh]

great evening doctor,
please, i have a tree structure containing about 150.000 photos in a sequence (same camera)
i need to rename the whole in the following format ProjectXXXXXX where XXXXXX is the unique value of the -shuttercount exif extract

please can you provide me with a full syntax, including any eventual -r or a file overwrite

much appreciated sir

[Hayo Baan]

The following command would rename all files in DIR (and below) that have a shutter count to Projectxxxx.

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exiftool -if '$ShutterCount' '-FileName<Project$ShutterCount.%e' -r DIR
But that would result in file names with different lengths. If you'd like all the shutter counts to have the same number of digits (e.g. 6), use this:

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exiftool -if '$ShutterCount' '-FileName<${ShutterCount; $_ = substr("000000$_",-6);}.%e' -r DIR

Note: test this out on a small number of files first, of course...

[alexy frangieh]

worked like charm! thank you