Filenames systemdate from Exif:ModifyDate

[nq270]

Good evening

To Phil and Bogdan - Thank you for your help and support with my question re. dateshift.

Another quick question out of curiosity....

Is it possible to copy the value from Exif:ModifyDate to the Microsoft Windows filename's systemdate ?

I have noted that it is possible to copy the value from one tag to another, like -Exif:CopyRight<Exif:Artist, and was wondering if it also is possible to do the same with the filenames systemdate?

Thank you,

[Phil Harvey]

I don't know what you mean by "Microsoft Windows filename's systemdate", but exiftool can write the filesystem last modified date/time via the "FileModifyDate" tag with an argument like this:

"-filemodifydate<datetimeoriginal"

- Phil

[dmtoddma]

I'm assuming the user may have been referring to the file creation date (the date that the file was initially created by the filesystem). Whether or not that is what he meant, that is a date that is very important to me. I am working with a lot of scanned files that contained no consistent date information. The file creation date is often the best indication of when the image was originally scanned (datetimedigitized). In contrast, the file modified date may have been changed by a variety of programs (Lightroom, for example, insists upon updating the file modified date when metadata are written to the file) and by program operations. I, for one, would find it extremely helpful to have the file creation date available in Exiftool. At a very minimum it would be useful to display this date in the "standard filelist" profile in ExiftoolGUI.

Thank you both for a wonderful utility and interface!

David