Help please!

[Ricky]

Hello all. I'm a photographer from sunny Yorkshire. England, in the old textile belt. I've been around since film, and in many ways digital working still seems new.

So here goes ...I feel such a fool!

For one reason or another I need the metadata of a large quantity of images taken throughout 2015 to appear with the actual dates taken.....but for some reason, and I have no idea why, the camera date was set for a year behind, so all image dates are a year out. They are all Sony a7r raw files.

I thought Lightroom might help, but no. It seems I have to change 4 date lines per image in total and I'm not too hot with software and I cant get Exiftool to download and work at all. It's so frustrating! I'm running windows 7, 64.

Am I right in thinking this should be really simple?

I'd appreciate help.

Thanks in advance.
Richard

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Richard,

It should be fairly easy:

1. Download and install exiftool for command line use (follow all 4 install steps).

2. Launch cmd.exe (you can do this from the Windows "Run..." menu), and in the cmd.exe window type this:

exiftool -alldates+="1:0:0 0"

3. Press SPACE, then drag and drop the folder containing the images onto the cmd.exe window

4. Press RETURN.

I suggest doing this on a test folder first, to be sure it works for you.

Note that this will reset the filesystem date/time to the current date.  You may want to run this command afterwards to also set these values:

exiftool "-filemodifydate<datetimeoriginal" "-filecreatedate<datetimeoriginal"

Good luck.

- Phil

[Ricky]

Phil

Thanks a lot for the reply. Thought it might be a simple series of steps, although I couldn't seem to get the download to operate. Bear with me please!

Am I right to download, then double click to open? I'm doing something wrong because all I get is a brief pop up with no real info. I feel so dim! And I'd appreciate a few simple pointers as to how to get the download to actually perform.

I'm also going to make a donation tomorrow - I believe free isn't free at all - always effort gone on behind the scenes.

Cheers
Richard