Set date from directory name

[RayArdia]

Hi Phil,
There aren't any sub-directories to '1993', just 13 files within the dir 1993.
I thought I'd get on with some other photos so scanned some 1992 ones into ~/Desktop/1992.
Then:-
ray@ray-Aspire-5735:~$ exiftool '-datetimeoriginal=1992:09:10 00:00:00' ~/Desktop/1992
    1 directories scanned
   12 image files updated
So everything was normal as previously - so the tried:-
ray@ray-Aspire-5735:~$ exiftool '-datetimeoriginal=19932:09:10 00:00:00' ~/Desktop/1993
    1 directories scanned
   13 image files updated
ray@ray-Aspire-5735:~$    and the thirteen files I was having problems with are now "tooled-up" with the required metadata. I have no idea what happened but it seems to have sorted itself out.

So sorry to have bothered you, and thanks again for trying to put me straight.
Ray

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Ray,

In your directory listing, none of the files had ".jpg" extensions.  In fact, they didn't have extensions at all (they had names like "1993-0"), so I had assumed they were sub-directories.

ExifTool only processes files with recognized extension when processing a directory.  So for this to work, either the file names must have changed to include the extensions, or you changed your command to specify the files explicitly instead of the directory (ie. "~/Desktop/1993/*" instead of "~/Desktop/1993").

- Phil