#Exiftool copy alldates install#

What I’m doing is to copy the date contained in the filenames (e.g., IMG_20170210_171030.jpg is an image captured on the 10th of February, 2017, at 17:10:30) to the three main exif tags DateTimeOriginal, CreateDate and ModifyDate – shortened as alldates – as well as the actual file modification and creation dates ( FileModifyDate and FileCreateDate). Luckily the filenames have the correct date so I’ve used the following command to fix the tags: $ exiftool -s '-alldatesfile that doesnt have a DateTimeOriginal will not be listed then. In this case I used the date calculating option and just executed: exiftool -AllDates-=720:00 -overwrite_original images If you wish to get DateTimeOriginal for only those files in a directory that have a value in the tag, use exiftool -if 'DateTimeOriginal' -DateTimeOriginal C:/path/to/dir. If I were to use the above examples I could set the dates individually (which would be a long and tedious process) or set all the images to the same date and time (which would be wrong). That meant that all the photos I had taken lately had dates that were off by exactly 30 days. If you want to change the dates to all the files in the “images” directory that were taken by a Cannon camera (and not touch the rest) I would do: exiftool -AllDates='2010:08:08 15:35:33' -if '$make eq 'Canon'' -overwrite_original imagesĪs far as changing dates and times, there is another option of exiftool that lets you do time calculation.įor example, the other day I found out that my camera’s time was correct but the date was ahead by 30 days. If you omit that option, then exiftool will back-up the originals by making a copy of them and adding “_original” to the end of the file names. Phil Harveys ExifTool, is described to have the ability to extract, add, copy or move nearly all. The “-overwrite_original” option is necessary if you want to change the meta-data of the original images. exiftool -AllDates+1:30 -if make eq Canon dir.

If I wanted to change the dates on all the files in the “images” directory, I would do: exiftool -AllDates='2010:08:08 15:35:33' -overwrite_original images

Now you are ready to start changing the meta-data of the images.įor example, if I wanted to change all the dates and times (DateTimeOriginal, CreateDate and ModifyDate) of the IMG_01.jpg file to the 8th of August 2010 at 3:35:33 PM I would do: exiftool -AllDates='2010:08:08 15:35:33' -overwrite_original IMG_01.jpg

#Exiftool copy alldates install#

In terminal execute: sudo apt-get install libimage-exiftool-perl You can also put different rules about what files and how you want to change them if you need to. It allows you to change individual files or whole bunch of them with one command.

There is a very flexible and easy Linux tool that helps you change the EXIF meta-data of images.