File date on photos

[mfairleigh]

I have a folder containing over 2,000 .jpg's, all with the file name formatted as "2003-09-14_16-38-21_630.jpg". Obviously a date/time stamp. For some reason, in some cases the file system shows a wildly different file date. I'd like to batch-modify the file dates to correspond to the date/time stamp in the file names. I'm not sure whether there's a way to do that with BRU based on the file name, OR, if I should be looking into using EXIF data and manipulating the file date/time from that. In either case, I'd appreciate any help/examples on how to proceed.

Thank you!

Mike

[Admin]

Hi, BRU will not change timestamps based on the file name but will change file names based on timestamps.
Please see "Change File Timestamps" for the options that are available re changing timestamps. thanks.

[Luuk]

The exiftool.exe does this for you, but you not say which dates to modify? If filenames have correct date, this to change FileCreateDate and FileModifyDate ...

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exiftool -FileCreateDate"<$Filename" -FileModifyDate"<$Filename"  "YourFolderName"

If filenames not have correct dates, but jpegs have correct Exif:DateTimeOriginal?
This to change FileCreateDate and FileModifyDate = Exif:DateTimeOriginal, and also rename with better exif-date ...

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exiftool -overwrite_original -if $Exif:DateTimeOriginal -FileCreateDate"<$DateTimeOriginal" -FileModifyDate"<$DateTimeOriginal" -FILEname"<${DateTimeOriginal;s/:/-/g;s/ /_/}${filename;s/.*(_\d+)(?i)\.jpg$/$1/}.%le" "YourFolderName"

If you like to test renames on command line, please to change -FILEname into -TESTname so it makes the preview like ...
'2003-09-14_16-38-21_630.jpg' --> 'Exif-Date_Exif-Time_630.jpg'
'2012-09-14_16-38-21_009.jpg' --> 'Exif-Date_Exif-Date_009.jpg'

Then when to be happy with names, change back to -FILEname to conduct all the dates, and also to rename.

[mfairleigh]

Thank you Luuk, I will play with this!

Mike