Change "Date Taken" or "Taken (Original)"

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Change "Date Taken" or "Taken (Original)"

Postby chadbone@hotmail.com » Thu Oct 15, 2020 7:38 pm

I have scanned in thousands of "old-school" paper photos and would like to set the exif "Taken Date" for these jpg files. Sometimes when they get coppied from place to place the created date gets botched by people... but the date taken stays constant...

Can I use BRU to modify the "Date Taken" or "Taken (Original)"?

THANKS SO MUCH!
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Re: Change "Date Taken" or "Taken (Original)"

Postby Luuk » Thu Oct 15, 2020 11:48 pm

Greetings Chadbone, the Bulk Rename Utility only likes to read the exifs, but not ever to change them. With the exiftool.exe, it can be very easy to set the Exif:DateTaken=CreateDate, but Im not understanding the whole problem with all of the jpegs. If already you fixed the create dates? this to find all jpegs without DateTaken and set DateTaken=CreateDate...
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exiftool -r -ext jpg -if2 "not $DateTimeOriginal" -DateTimeOriginal"<$FileCreateDate"  "TheFolderName"
If you like try the exiftool, please to change "TheFolderName" and destroy "-r" if not to recurse all of the folders also.
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