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chris
chris

Reputation: 649

Batch edit the file creation date

Someone set the wrong date in the camera settings and now has several hundred pictures with 2013 as the year. Is there a way to batch-edit the creation date by decreasing the year by 1?

Thanks in advance

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4576

Answers (2)

user847990
user847990

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I believe you could also use a ComObject in PowerShell Wia.ImageFile to manipulate the information. PowerShell Team wrote a blog post on it here. They provided a module that you might be able to use. I loaded a file and found the DateTaken in the value of "DateTime" under the Properties property of the $image variable, if done as the blog post showed an example of.

I think you could also do this in the GUI of Windows Explorer. I took two files I had taken with a Canon and selected both of them and went into Properties. Under the Details tab I just changed the year value. The month, day, and time staid the same. I did this on two files and it worked, although if you are talking about hundreds not sure how that would perform. enter image description here

Upvotes: 0

CB.
CB.

Reputation: 60976

Here you can find 2 powershell script to get & set Exif Date Taken of your photos.

Read carefully what Chris wrote in his blog.

I've used this script for the same your problem on some jpeg before buying LightRoom that do EXIF editing really easy.

Upvotes: 1

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