Move Pictures without Date

[dima]

I would like to move all pictures without a original date. How can I do that?
Duplicate images should be renamed

exiftool "-directory=/volumeUSB2/Pictures/" -if 'not $datetimeoriginal' "-filename<ModificationDate" -d "%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S%%-c.%%le" -r /volumeUSB2/usbshare/PicturesBackup/

[Phil Harvey]

Your command looks good to me, except that you should use FileModifyDate, not ModificationDate.

- Phil

[dima]

yes thanks it works. 

But the pictures are now in the same directory and have not been moved.

[Phil Harvey]

Works for me:

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% ls tmp tmp2
tmp:
a.jpg

tmp2:

% exiftool "-directory=tmp2" -v -if 'not $datetimeoriginal' "-filename<FileModifyDate" -d "%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S%%-c.%%le" -r tmp
======== tmp/a.jpg
Setting new values from tmp/a.jpg
'tmp/a.jpg' --> 'tmp2/2020-01-28_07-29-32.jpg'
    1 directories scanned
    1 image files updated

% ls tmp tmp2
tmp:

tmp2:
2020-01-28_07-29-32.jpg

[dima]

What is here wrong?

root@sys: exiftool "-directory=/home/TEST2" -v -if 'not $datetimeoriginal' "-filename<FileModifyDate" -d "%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S%%-c.%%le" -r "/home/NEU/"
    1 directories scanned
    0 image files read

root@syslog:/home/TEST2# ls
03_doppelt.jpg            20020101_10h10m00s_4.jpg  20020101_10h10m00s.jpg  DSC_0008.JPG           DSC_0018.JPG_original
05_doppelt.jpg            20020101_10h10m00s_5.jpg  DSC_0003.JPG            DSC_0008.JPG_original
20020101_10h10m00s_1.jpg  20020101_10h10m00s_6.jpg  DSC_0003.JPG_original   DSC_0013.JPG
20020101_10h10m00s_2.jpg  20020101_10h10m00s_7.jpg  DSC_0005.JPG            DSC_0013.JPG_original
20020101_10h10m00s_3.jpg  20020101_10h10m00s_8.jpg  DSC_0005.JPG_original   DSC_0018.JPG

[Phil Harvey]

Your source directory is /home/NEU/.  What files are in this directory?  I'm guessing it is empty because ExifTool didn't find any files.

- Phil

[dima]

Oh thanks  the directory was emtpy.

it has now worked on my ubuntu server but on my Synology NAS:

ash-4.3# exiftool "-directory=/volumeUSB2/usbshare/Bilder" -v -if 'not $datetimeoriginal' "-filename<FileModifyDate" -d "%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S%%-c.%%le" -r "/volumeUSB2/usbshare/Old"
    1 directories scanned
    0 image files read

[Phil Harvey]

So what is the output of this command?:

ls /volumeUSB2/usbshare/Old

- Phil

[dima]

Hello Phil,

ash-4.3# ls /volumeUSB2/usbshare/Old
ash-4.3#

[Phil Harvey]

There you go.  That's why the command didn't work.  No files in that directory.

- Phil

[dima]

Oh sorry the same mistake again 

It worked now too. But I have a lot of files with "failed condition". Why?

But the file has all the timestamps:

File Modification Date/Time     : 2020:01:26 21:31:00+01:00
File Access Date/Time           : 2020:01:30 20:00:22+01:00
File Inode Change Date/Time     : 2020:01:26 21:31:00+01:00
Modify Date                     : 2018:08:22 17:06:47
Date/Time Original              : 2018:08:22 17:06:47
Create Date                     : 2018:08:22 17:06:47

or:

File Modification Date/Time     : 2019:08:06 19:05:04+02:00
File Access Date/Time           : 2020:01:30 20:04:04+01:00
File Inode Change Date/Time     : 2019:08:06 19:05:04+02:00
Modify Date                     : 2018:08:14 20:28:19
Date/Time Original              : 2018:08:14 20:28:19
Create Date                     : 2018:08:14 20:28:19
Digital Creation Date           : 2018:08:14
Date Created                    : 2018:08:14
Create Date                     : 2018:08:14 20:28:19.211
Date/Time Original              : 2018:08:14 20:28:19.211
Date/Time Created               : 2018:08:14 20:28:19
Digital Creation Date/Time      : 2018:08:14 20:28:19

[Phil Harvey]

The condition is

-if 'not $datetimeoriginal'

it will fail if DateTimeOriginal exists.

- Phil