Date modification

[macfun]

Hi everyone

I'm a new user of exiftool, everything was going very well until now, because I'm struggling a bit for one thing...
During my last holidays I used my old gopro, and the date was set on 2013... I just want to change the date to the real date of the picture because I use synology moments and my pictures are sorted by date.

So, I tried  exiftool '-alldates=yyyy:mm:dd hh:mm:ss' but it doesn't fully work... It changes some of the dates, but not all of them... I want to have the date 2019:08:03

If I use exiftool -time:all -a -G0:1 -s, here are the results before -alldates
^{[File:System]   FileModifyDate                  : 2013:01:01 00:16:42+01:00
[File:System]   FileAccessDate                  : 2020:04:02 23:03:04+02:00
[File:System]   FileInodeChangeDate             : 2020:04:02 23:03:03+02:00
[EXIF:IFD0]     ModifyDate                      : 2013:01:01 00:16:42
[EXIF:ExifIFD]  DateTimeOriginal                : 2013:01:01 00:16:42
[EXIF:ExifIFD]  CreateDate                      : 2013:01:01 00:16:42}

here are the results after :
^{[File:System]   FileModifyDate                  : 2020:04:02 23:19:53+02:00
[File:System]   FileAccessDate                  : 2020:04:02 23:20:07+02:00
[File:System]   FileInodeChangeDate             : 2020:04:02 23:19:53+02:00
[EXIF:IFD0]     ModifyDate                      : 2019:08:03 15:30:00
[EXIF:ExifIFD]  DateTimeOriginal                : 2019:08:03 15:30:00
[EXIF:ExifIFD]  CreateDate                      : 2019:08:03 15:30:00}

Moreover, if I do a cmd+I with my mac, the results are :
creation : 2020:04:02 23:19:53
modification : 2020:04:02 23:19:53

I had différents errors, the last one is ^{Warning: [minor] Unrecognized MakerNotes}

Do you have any solution to change all the dates to the one I like ?

Many thanks !!

[Phil Harvey]

Try this:

exiftool "-time:all=2019:08:03 15:30:00" -wm w DIR

This should change all writable date/time tags except =the filesystem ones.

- Phil

[macfun]

Hi Phil,

Thanks for all your amazing job with ExifTool and for your reply !

Unfortunately, I think it's not working, I've got an error message : ^{Warning: [minor] Maker notes could not be parsed -} and it has set the EXIF dates as wanted but not the system dates ... :
^{[File:System]   FileModifyDate                  : 2020:04:03 08:38:02+02:00
[File:System]   FileAccessDate                  : 2020:04:03 08:38:03+02:00
[File:System]   FileInodeChangeDate             : 2020:04:03 08:38:02+02:00
[EXIF:IFD0]     ModifyDate                      : 2019:08:03 15:30:00
[EXIF:ExifIFD]  DateTimeOriginal                : 2019:08:03 15:30:00
[EXIF:ExifIFD]  CreateDate                      : 2019:08:03 15:30:00}

Maybe it's because it's a GoPro picture ?

[StarGeek]

I've got an error message : ^{Warning: [minor] Maker notes could not be parsed -}

That's just a warning.  As long as the other data is changed, then you can ignore it.

and it has set the EXIF dates as wanted but not the system dates ...

As Phil said (emphasis mine)

This should change all writable date/time tags except =the filesystem ones.

Add -FileModifyDate='2019:08:03 15:30:00' to fix that.

Also, since you mentioned it's on Synology, it has been reported here that the "Drive" package will prevent any attempts to change the file system dates.

[macfun]

StarGeek, thanks for your reply 

That's just a warning.  As long as the other data is changed, then you can ignore it.

Ok, thanks, I'll just ignore it !

As Phil said (emphasis mine)
Quote from: Phil Harvey on April 02, 2020, 07:24:01 PM
This should change all writable date/time tags except =the filesystem ones.

Sorry about that, I've read to quickly... Quarantine + short night effet probably 

Add -FileModifyDate='2019:08:03 15:30:00' to fix that.

It worked, thanks ! Not at the first time but I did it twice and it worked... I've got a lot of pictures to edit, hope everything we'll be fine !

Also, since you mentioned it's on Synology, it has been reported here that the "Drive" package will prevent any attempts to change the file system dates.

Actually the photos I'm trying to edit are still on my computer hard drive. I'll transfer them on the synology when they'll be ready 

Thanks again :-)