Hi there! New to exiftool and the impressive array of functionalities it offers. What I am trying to do is this:
Many of my folder names have a description for the photos they contain. There is, however, not a completely rigid format for the folder name. Three types exist:
(1) 2014\2014_07_21 - Birthday
(2) 2014\2014_08_01-15 - Holiday in Spain
(3) 2014\2014_09_15
Hence, some have just one date with a description, others a range of dates with a description, and some don't have a description at all.
What I would like to do is, recursively on my whole Photo folder (of which the above would be direct subfolders):
- get the start of the description from the folder name, if there is any (I would think by locating " - " with an index function?)
- put the description in a string
- write that string to the EXIF Description of all image files in the folder
I had found some posts closely related to this, but the extra difficulty of first getting the substring with the " - " delimiter proves a challenge...
Anyone care to be so kind to hep me out? Thanks!!
(PS: Pictures are stored on Synology NAS; I could run exiftool there, or go via my Windows PC.)