So you want to change the create date, but does it matter if the modified date is also changed?
If not, "touch" can take a reference file (or directory) date & use that as the basis to change files date.
Something like:
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touch.exe -r parentdirname filename(s)
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touch -r C:\TMP\2006-10-October\ *.jpg
NOTE: This assumes that the directory (not
directory name) is dated as you want.
And then you could automate things using a batch file, & set the batch file to run as a right-click SendTo item...
Such that from within your file manager you right-click a file, it pulls its parent directory & uses that as a parameter to touch.
Something like (pseudo-code): touch.exe -r %~p1 *.jpg
Which you could then expand to loop through a directory...
For changing directory dates to the dates of files within, see Nirsoft's
FolderTimeUpdate.
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Usage: touch [OPTION]... FILE...
Update the access and modification times of each FILE to the current time.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
-a change only the access time
-c, --no-create do not create any files
-d, --date=STRING parse STRING and use it instead of current time
-f (ignored)
-m change only the modification time
-r, --reference=FILE use this file's times instead of current time
-t STAMP use [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.ss] instead of current time
--time=WORD change the specified time:
WORD is access, atime, or use: equivalent to -a
WORD is modify or mtime: equivalent to -m
--help display this help and exit
--version output version information and exit
Note that the -d and -t options accept different time-date formats.
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
touch, can be found in
CoreUtils ("Binary" zip).
Also required would be the "Dependencies" zip.
(Copy touch.exe & the two .dll from "dependencies" & put them in your PATH. [I've never used the "setup" files.])