Just looking to change the Creation date to exif shot date

[lilhelpplease]

Is this possible?

I have a demo for a programme that does it but only 5 at a time I thought this tool might do the whole lot, so Im after
Shot date (time on Camera) to retain and modify date so my photos organise better in finder, I'm on mac

I tried one which didn't work it just changed the date modified and created to now but the exif stayed intact.
thanks

[StarGeek]

ExifTool is very good at this stuff.  It will change tags on whole directories and sub-directories if you want.  But you need to figure out what tags you want to use, since there isn't a "Shot Date" tag and there's a variety of CreateDate and DateCreated tags, but no "Creation Date" as far as I can recall.

Take a look at FAQ 3 and see if you can figure out which tags you're looking to copy.  Off hand, I'm guessing that EXIF:DateTimeOriginal will be one of them.

[Muyah]

The command you're probably looking for is:

exiftool "-FileModifyDate<DateTimeOriginal"

As you may have noticed this changes the modify date and not the creation date. The thing is that by changing the modify date, OSX automatically changes the creation date to the same value provided the date you're changing it to is earlier than the original date. It's a workaround since I don't think it's possible to directly change the creation date with Exiftool. A Better Finder Attributes will do this flawlessly, though.