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Started by jorge.peixinho, November 20, 2023, 08:29:07 PM

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jorge.peixinho

I'm completely unfamiliar with the app and photography, so please bear with me.
Over the years I've had my photos with Apple or Google.
I just realized that I have a lot of photos with the date clearly wrong.
Many of the photos I've managed to correct using the "A Better File Renamer" app, but many (very many) I haven't been able to.
I realized that none of the applications can read/interpret the date fields that I have shown in the attached image.

1. Is there any way ExifTool can read these fields and update the creation and modification dates with these values?
2. And if so, what would the command be (I'm using a macbook).

Thank you very much in advance for your support and understanding.

Best Regards,

Jorge


Phil Harvey

Hi Jorge,

Run this command in a Terminal window on a file to see what date/time tags you have available:

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

With some exceptions, you can copy any of these to any other using this syntax:

exiftool "-DESTINATION_TAG<SOURCE_TAG" FILE

Note that the tags marked "[System]" are filesystem information an d not part of the file itself.

- Phil
...where DIR is the name of a directory/folder containing the images.  On Mac/Linux/PowerShell, use single quotes (') instead of double quotes (") around arguments containing a dollar sign ($).