Fixing DateTimeOriginal on 3GS JPGS

[corn]

Hi All,

I'm using this tool on a linux machine to tidy up the mess that is 10+ years of family photos. I'm using the following to orgainise the files by year and month.

exiftool -o . '-Directory<DateTimeOriginal' -d ~/Pictures/%Y_%m -r ~/my/archive/dir

The issue I'm having is with images that do not have DateTimeOriginal data, specifically images taken with the 3GS phone, every time one of these files are found I get the "Warning: No writable tags found ..."

The plan would be to change the command so that when it encounters files with no DateTimeOriginal, the CreateDate is used and if no CreateDate, the FileModifyDate is used.

Thanks in advance for any help.
Corn

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Corn,

Try this:

exiftool -o . '-Directory<CreateDate' '-Directory<DateTimeOriginal' -d ~/Pictures/%Y_%m -r ~/my/archive/dir

[corn]

Thank Phil,

All working as expected. Great tool and apologies for the tardy response.

Corn