File renaming works sometimes

[BigBlueBeast]

Performing a bunch of digital photo maintanence after a drive crash including renaming, when I use the following command line:

exiftool -r "-filename<CreateDate" -d %a_%m-%d-%Y_%H%M%S%%-c.%%e -ext jpg -ext dng -ext tiff -ext gif -ext psd . -progress -v4 > rename_log.txt 2>&1

It works most the time now that removed the spaces from file names, when it does not I see the following logged and not sure why this is, any idea?

Sample of logged results with a worked and a failed:

======== ./PhotoWeb2003/Animals/Our Pets/Contessa/Thu,-08-29-2002_094759%-c.jpg [62/26195]
Setting new values from ./PhotoWeb2003/Animals/Our Pets/Contessa/Thu,-08-29-2002_094759%-c.jpg
Writing File:FileName
Writing File:FileName
'./PhotoWeb2003/Animals/Our Pets/Contessa/Thu,-08-29-2002_094759%-c.jpg' --> './PhotoWeb2003/Animals/Our Pets/Contessa/Thu_08-29-2002_094759.jpg'
    + FileName = './PhotoWeb2003/Animals/Our Pets/Contessa/Thu_08-29-2002_094759.jpg'
======== ./PhotoWeb2003/Animals/Our Pets/Contessa/Wed,-01-05-2011_120640-005.jpg [63/26195]
Setting new values from ./PhotoWeb2003/Animals/Our Pets/Contessa/Wed,-01-05-2011_120640-005.jpg
Nothing changed in ./PhotoWeb2003/Animals/Our Pets/Contessa/Wed,-01-05-2011_120640-005.jpg

The next challenge is to see if way to do a bulk refresh of thumbnails as see some corrupted but not seeing way to basically drop and create fresh thumbnails with your tool

Dave

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Dave,

CreateDate must exist in the file for the command to succeed.

If it doesn't, you may be able to use some other date/time information.

Use this command to see what is available:

exiftool -a -G1 -s -time:all FILE

- Phil

[BigBlueBeast]

That helped, looks like got a bunch of them really corrupted bad as this comparison shows:

======== ./PhotoWeb2004/Trips and Travels/Fort Worden Aug 2004/Day 2/Wed_08-25-2004_125337.jpg
[System]        FileModifyDate                  : 2004:08:25 12:53:37-07:00
[System]        FileAccessDate                  : 2017:08:12 17:37:03-07:00
[System]        FileCreateDate                  : 2015:10:11 17:11:09-07:00
[IFD0]          ModifyDate                      : 2004:08:25 12:53:37
[ExifIFD]       DateTimeOriginal                : 2004:08:25 12:53:37
[ExifIFD]       CreateDate                      : 2004:08:25 12:53:37
[GPS]           GPSTimeStamp                    : 19:53:37
[GPS]           GPSDateStamp                    : 2004:08:25
[IPTC]          DateCreated                     : 2004:08:25
[IPTC]          TimeCreated                     : 12:53:37-07:00
[XMP-exif]      DateTimeDigitized               : 2004:08:25 12:53:37-07:00
[XMP-exif]      DateTimeOriginal                : 2004:08:25 12:53:37-07:00
[XMP-exif]      GPSDateTime                     : 2004:08:25 19:53:37Z
[XMP-photoshop] DateCreated                     : 2004:08:25 12:53:37Z
[XMP-xmp]       CreateDate                      : 2004:08:26 13:59:29-08:00
[XMP-xmp]       MetadataDate                    : 2004:11:26 17:04:56-08:00
[XMP-xmp]       ModifyDate                      : 2004:08:25 12:53:37-07:00
[ICC-header]    ProfileDateTime                 : 1998:02:09 06:49:00
[Composite]     DateTimeCreated                 : 2004:08:25 12:53:37-07:00
[Composite]     GPSDateTime                     : 2004:08:25 19:53:37Z
======== ./PhotoWeb2004/Trips and Travels/Fort Worden Aug 2004/Wed,-01-05-2011_123005-470.jpg
[System]        FileModifyDate                  : 0000:00:00 00:00:00
[System]        FileAccessDate                  : 2015:10:11 17:11:09-07:00
[System]        FileCreateDate                  : 2015:10:11 17:11:09-07:00
[IFD0]          ModifyDate                      : 2011:01:05 12:30:05
[GPS]           GPSTimeStamp                    : 08:00:00
[GPS]           GPSDateStamp                    : 1899:12:30
[XMP-exif]      GPSDateTime                     : 1899:12:30 08:00:00Z
[XMP-xmp]       ModifyDate                      : 2011:01:05 12:30:05
[Composite]     GPSDateTime                     : 1899:12:30 08:00:00Z

Guess will just have to figure out am going to at least try to set the date stamps to correct year adding the CreateDate if missing, dang I hate file corruption especially when originals lost.

Thank you for getting me heading in the right direction