Date and Time of Digital Data Generation and Original File Name

[zuiko3000]

Hi all,

I have been trying to change Date and Time of Digital Data Generation but I cannot do it with EXIFTOOL. Is it possible or not? My Olympus ORF files have that stupid field and even if you can change Date and Time of Original Data Generation, the previous one stays the same.

Is it possible to recuperate the original file name of a ORF file?

Thanks in advance.

David

[Phil Harvey]

Hi David,

I have been trying to change Date and Time of Digital Data Generation but I cannot do it with EXIFTOOL. Is it possible or not?

I don't know what tag you are referring to (see FAQ 3), but ExifTool should be able to write it.

My Olympus ORF files have that stupid field and even if you can change Date and Time of Original Data Generation, the previous one stays the same.

Previous one?

Is it possible to recuperate the original file name of a ORF file?

I don't see anywhere that the file name is stored in the metadata of an ORF file.  It would be useful to know what model of camera we are talking about.  Different cameras store different information.

- Phil

[zuiko3000]

Hi Phil,

Thank you for your help. My camera is Olympus E-P1. When I change DateTimeOriginal, Modification Date and Creation date and I go to Olympus Viewer and it still has the old date and time in a field called "Date and Time of Digital Data Generation" and another field called File Change Date and Time

I also converted the AVI files to MOV, changed Creation and Modification date (I though they were the only fields in MOV files), I go back to Olympus Viewer and it reports the date and time when the file was converted AVI to MOV but not the Creation and Modification dates I change. This is really annoying!!!

This is the capture.

[Alan Clifford]

I have some  old Olympus jpegs and they have CreateDate and ModifyDate.  Maybe try setting those.

exiftool -G -a  ~/photographs/photo/2002/December/pc290027.jpg -s -*date*

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[File]          FileModifyDate                  : 2002:12:29 12:05:12-04:00
[File]          FileAccessDate                  : 2018:10:20 09:17:19-04:00
[File]          FileInodeChangeDate             : 2018:02:15 08:59:33-04:00
[EXIF]          ModifyDate                      : 2002:12:29 16:05:12
[EXIF]          DateTimeOriginal                : 2002:12:29 16:05:12
[EXIF]          CreateDate                      : 2002:12:29 16:05:12


[zuiko3000]

It seems if I use "AllDates" changes everything inside the ORF file.