Bulk Rename Utility

New to BRU and the only search for my problem gave me an unresolved post from 2008. Sorry if this has been brought up recently, i just didnt find it.

Trying to rename photos by Date Taken. Extract EXIF is ticked.

Step 8
Prefix
Date (Digitized) (also tried (original))
MDY

Rename.

Nothing.

I know most of the pictures have the Date Taken data in it's details because i checked with regular explorer.

Any ideas?

Unfortunately, Explorer's DateTaken column isnt hard-wired to any exif-data.
It does first look for Exif:DateTimeOriginal, but can choose other DateTypes for its DateTaken column.
Example: When neither Exif:DateTimeOriginal or Exif:ModifyDate exist, it may choose XMP:CreateDate!

BRU's 8Type=Taken never searches beyond exif-data (it does prefer Exif:DateTimeOriginal to Exif:ModifyDate)
To view your file's actual DateTypes/Values, you could download exiftool & use the command:
exiftool -time:all -a -G0:1 -s filename.jpg

If you ONLY want to rename files with actual ExifDates, I'd use BRU (assuming you agree with above preference).
Just be cautious of combining non-8Settings that can match unwanted files.

Otherwise, I'd prob use exiftool, once I decided on the ordering of my date-rename preferences.

Earlier post applies to version 2.7.0.2
It only has one 8Type=Taken option (which prefers Exif:DateTimeOriginal to Exif:ModifyDate)

The newer versions offer more selective exif extractions, but still dont search beyond exif-data
Also: Type=Taken(Recent) will prefer Exif:DateTimeOriginal over Exif:CreateDate
I'm not aware of any other caveats.