There has to be a way to do this in batch and output to a text file, whether through ImageMagick itself, or by writing some sort of script.
Google has led me to ImageMagick, and I can get it to output what I need using identify -verbose IMG_6881.JPG | grep exif:DateTime: from a single file. Question 1: Is this possible? It seems like it should be. They all have accurate date/time stamps within the EXIF data, so if I can simply pull that out and dump to a text file with each file name, I can easily use a spreadsheet program to find logical groupings and get started. Hard drive failures and multiple copies across drives means that all of their created/modified dates are a few weeks old, so I can't use that. I have close to 25,000 files to deal with, mostly grouped in folders titled 100CANON, 101CANON, and so on. I've decided that now is the time to organize them. Drag and drop files onto this exe.Basically, I have failed at maintaining any sort of organization of my digital photos for about a decade.
Here is something that I find useful: Create a copy of ExifTool and name it exiftool(-a -G1 -s -k).exe. You will probably want to turn off the Instant Preview or only select a single file while typing ExifTool tags. See the ExifTool documentation for more info on what is supported. You can type a group name first to be more specific. This will return the value of "TagName" (provided such a tag exists in the file of course) Finally move the file in the folder where Flash Renamer is installed, for example c:\Program Files\Flash Renamer\.ĮxifTool implemented as a and can be used anywhere tags are allowed. Change the name of this file to just exiftool.exe. When finished, open the zip file and extract the file exiftool(-k).exe. Go to ExifTool homepage and download the Windows Executable. This is a page from the Flash Renamer user manual.ĮxifTool by Phil Harvey is an advanced metadata utility that can read an enormous number of file formats, media properties and tag formats (see lists below).įlash Renamer already contains support for many metadata formats, but if you miss something there is a good chance that ExifTool supports it, and you can use ExifTool together with Flash Renamer to get this data into Flash Renamer!īefore you can use ExifTool you need to "install" it:
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