Hi there,
A few years back I had an issue transfering my pictures from my iphone to my android where all folder structure broke. After this I was never really able to access the pictures from whatsapp anymore. Instead they stayed in the gallery dated as the day i transffered them.
Currently every picture is store in a file like this in my android phone:
Internal storage/android/media/com.whatsapp/whatsapp/media/whatsapp/images/201301/media/"phone number of whatsapp contact"/ random folder number / random letter of alphabet.
Essentially I have each picture in a folder named A-Z, in a folder number 1-10, all under the phone number. This is also messed up my exif as when I transfered all the pictures went under date of transfer.
Now imagine this done from 201301 to 201905, thousands of folders with a picture or two within each one, as there were more than one whatapp conversations every month of each year to each phone number.
I've managed to do it manually where I can rename the picture to the name of the main folder "201301". But it would take a lot of time to do every folder change respective exifs to the parent folder name, zip and through them back into the phone.
Is there anyway to directly source the parent folder a few levels up, re-write the exif as the parent folder name?
From within BRU I am looking into the subfolders so all the pictures come out nicely once I have pointed BRU to the ...images folder.
Any advice would be really appreciated.
Thanks for your time.