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Questions tagged [exiftool]

Questions about ExifTool, a popular, free, open-source command-line tool for reading and writing image metadata.

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How to set "date modified" by "date taken" with Exiftool?

I'm still struggling with Exiftool's commands; even with, what should be (and probably is) a simple operation. How to set the "date modified" by "date taken / original date" for all images in a folder, that is overwrite current "date modified" with…
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How to use user-provided variables with ExifTool?

I would like to rename my photos using exiftool. This is my desired folder structure: YYYY/ MM/ EVENT/ YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS.ext Here is an example script for what I would like to do: echo 'Name of event?' read event exiftool -r…
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What does the exif ICC profile date mean?

I am trying to determine when a photo was taken with a smart phone. It was sent to me, not taken from facebook. I've viewed the exif data but the only field that even references a date is the ICC profile date. What is this date? is this the date it…
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Why do XnView and Exiftool's EXIF orientation tags differ?

While checking an image I noticed that XnView reads its EXIF orientation tag as left-bottom(8) but Exiftool reads it as Rotate 270 CW. Reading a bit on the subject, it seems that left-bottom(8) should correspond to Rotate 90 degrees CW rotation, but…
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When sorting into folders does Exiftool modify the image's metadata in any way?

When using Exiftool exiftool "-Directory
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How do I change only the year in the metadata using ExifTool, for a batch of files?

Have a few thousand tiff photos I’ve scanned in over the past few years into Lightroom Classic. For reasons I won’t go into here since not relevant to the question, I’d like to change the year for all photos to be 45 years earlier than what they…
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Creating missing EXIF header

EXIFtool can manipulate EXIF headers, but can it create EXIF headers for images which are missing EXIF header as a whole? If so, what is the syntax? To further clarify, how do you add EXIF data to images which have no EXIF data at all? Not empty…
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Changing Date on large numbers of scanned files

I have thousands of scanned photos and would like to change the EXIF data to have the proper dates. I can do this all with exiftool, but am looking for a way to process the files after I have organized the files into groups by date. I created…
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Replacing dates of a set to the earliest day using exiftool

I am looking for a way to use exiftool to extract the date of creation from the pictures in a directory and just in case they differ, use the earliest date. The application case is a concert that runs from 04.12.2017:20:00 until 05.12.2017:00:20. My…
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Writing missing/incorrect Date Tags based on FileName in ExifTool?

I'm using Linux Mint and have about 2,000 images which have either incorrect or missing EXIF Date tags. I would like to use the date contained in the filename to write the tags. I've spent a few hours trying to figure out how to do this in ExifTool…
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How to set a randomised creation date on multiple images on a specific year with Exiftool?

I have multiple images that have been scanned from 6x4 prints, not knowing when the photo has been taken, most of the photos have not been taken on a particular event, but knows the year taken. A one command to randomise the creation date on…
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Is there a way to check whether the image has been modified with Exiftool?

Using Exiftool, is there a way to check whether the image has been modified in any way, by say, comparing the dates in EXIF data? I was thinking something along the lines of comparing shooting date with some of the other dates, but am not sure which…
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Exiftool renames using tags that may not exist?

I have a camera that uses a SequenceNumber tag. I have another camera that uses a FileNumber tag. Both of these tags essentially give a file a unique number when multiple shots are captured in a burst. I'd like to use this to rename my files to…
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How can I get ExifTool to create an IPTC section when copying composite tags?

I have a bunch of image files of scanned slides with valid Exif timestamps for when the slide was taken (DateTimeOriginal tag) and when it was scanned into digital form (CreateDate tag, aka DateTimeDigitized). I can copy the Exif data into the…
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How can I rename filename with modified date and number count with Exiftool? (Mac)

Trying to switch to Exiftool from jhead to rename more filetypes other than jpg & jpeg. Whats the script for exiftool to convert from jhead: jhead -n"%Y_%m_%d-newname-%04i" *.jpg output: 2019_10_05-newname-0001.jpg *.jpg as multiple files
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