Batch convert photos with no EXIF-DateTaken

[Tommes]

Hello,

the photos of my smartphone have no EXIF-DateTaken.

I want to run a batch that:
-process files from "c:/photo"
-fetch the date from filename and write it into EXIF-DateTaken
-rename file with "filename<CreateDate"
-move the file to "c:/photo/%Y/%m/%Y%m%d_%H%M%S%%-c.%%le"

I have phrases for every single step, but don't know how to combine it.

Thanks for your help,
Tommes

[StarGeek]

-fetch the date from filename and write it into EXIF-DateTaken

What is the format of the filename?  If it's in some form of YEAR MONTH DAY HOUR MINUTE SECONDS (any characters in between the numbers can be ignored), then the basic command would be
exiftool "-AllDates<Filename" c:/photo

See FAQ #5, specifically the 3rd paragraph.

-rename file with "filename<CreateDate"
-move the file to "c:/photo/%Y/%m/%Y%m%d_%H%M%S%%-c.%%le"

Try this to see if it does what you want
exiftool -d "c:/photo/%Y/%m/%Y%m%d_%H%M%S%%-c.%%le" "-TestName<CreateDate" c:/photo

If it looks good, change TestName to Filename

[Tommes]

It looks god! Thank you.
I changed to command to my NAS-folder and hat remove "-d" what is this for?

Can I combine the two commands?


/usr/bin/exiftool "-AllDates<Filename" /volume1/photo/_IMPORT/_sonstige


/usr/bin/exiftool -d "/volume1/photo/_IMPORT/_sonstige/%Y/%m/%Y%m%d_%H%M%S%%-c.%%le" /usr/bin/exiftool -d "/volume1/photo/_IMPORT/_sonstige/%Y/%m/%Y%m%d_%H%M%S%%-c.%%le" "-Filename<CreateDate" /volume1/photo/_IMPORT/_sonstige

[StarGeek]

If CreateDate doesn't already exist, then not really.  You can't copy the new value as you set it.  You can use the -execute option to combine them but that won't be more than a second or two faster than running two separate commands.

[Phil Harvey]

Can I combine the two commands?

This is possible, but difficult because you would need to reformat the FileName yourself using the advanced formatting feature since you wouldn't be able to take advantage of the date/time formatting with -d.

- Phil