Newbie question - "date taken"

[denwayz]

This is to rectify incorrect date settings on camera leading to wrong "date taken" information.
* I worked out how to get "date taken" to display.
* Timestamp on Options menu doesn't give access, as it does to other date settings
* Autodate on screen offers a "date taken" option, but it isn't clear where/how to add the new (correct) date
[BTW: Is there anywhere which describes what each of the fields do - many of them are not transparent to this user...]

[Stefan]

Hi denwayz welocme.

Please note that BRU is an file renamer to create an new file name.
There is no option to write meta data to an file.
And you can't calculate an new term from an read-out meta data,... you just have to use it as it is.
Maybe use an EXIF tool to correct the 'date taken' first?

And an description of the fields you will find in the help file.

If you need more help, just ask, Maybe someone can help you.


best regards.
Stefan

This is to rectify incorrect date settings on camera leading to wrong "date taken" information.
* I worked out how to get "date taken" to display.
* Timestamp on Options menu doesn't give access, as it does to other date settings
* Autodate on screen offers a "date taken" option, but it isn't clear where/how to add the new (correct) date
[BTW: Is there anywhere which describes what each of the fields do - many of them are not transparent to this user...]

[denwayz]

Thanks for the response. If you're right, I'm surprised. Here's what the published intro says about the program:

- Rename photos using EXIF meta data (i.e. "Date Picture Taken", "Resolution" and other information embedded in all JPG photo files) Rename your holiday pictures from a meaningless dsc1790.jpg to NewYork1.jpg in a flash.
- Change files' creation and modification time stamps.

And here's what the Help has to say about Autodate.

Auto Date - Add various dates to the filename, in various formats
This allows you to prefix or suffix the filename with a variety of dates - the date that the file was created, modified, or accessed, and also with the current date. Useful for pictures! The date can be added in 9 different formats, some of which also include the modification time. You can also specify the characters you would like placed between the date/time and the existing filename (the Sep field) and the character to place between the different date/time segments (the Seg field). e.g. a format of DMY, with a Seg field of "-" would give a date of (for example) "25-01-03". The "Cent." flag is used to indicate whether or not you would the year to be represented with two digits or 4 digits

You also have the option to specify your own custom date formats, and these are detailed here.

If you are also updating the file's Creation-date or Modified-date, then you can also choose the "Create (New)" and "Modified (New)" values, and these will equate to your new timestamps.

One of the dates you can use is "data taken". This is an EXIF flag which is often embedded in JPEG images which were created using a digital camera. The software will only get the flags from JPEG images (.JPG or .JPEG extension), not TIFFs. If no date is available then no date will be used. So for example, choosing to append the Date Taken for a .EXE file will simply append nothing.

The clear implication is that one can change the "date taken" for JPG files. There are also a significant number of posts regarding sophisticated use of the EXIF data. So, I'd like to hear a further confirmation that this impossible in BRU. Thanks.

[Admin]

Hello

Creation-date and Modified-date are different from the EXIF date-taken. Creation-date and Modified-date are the Windows time stamps which is assigned to every file, while date-taken is the EXIF field only present for picture files. BRU can only read the date-taken field and use it to change the file names, but it won't change it. It will change Creation-date and Modified-date optionally.

thanks

[denwayz]

Thanks for both responses.