HELP! Software to change file date from EXIF?

[ajwh]

Does anyone know of software which will update a file date from the EXIF?

When I've been on a trip I'll download the files from the camera. Win10 gives the file a date which is the download date. The shooting date is in the EXIF, but I would like to use this as the file date.

Any ideas?????.

[BDennis]

I would suggest to take a look at EXIF Tool here: https://exiftool.org/

It is quite a technical command line tool but I think it might have a GUI wrapper.

[BDennis]

Thinking about this again any file on Windows should have a created / modified and accessed date. You can see these if you look bring up the file properties in the Windows Explorer (right click menu). The “created” date should really be the one from the camera when it was shot but whatever is copying the files might change it. It might be worth checking whether what you are seeing in Win10 is the “created” date or one of these other dates. Possibly whatever is copying the files over might have an option to preserve the original dates. I mostly use Mac for photos so haven’t looked at what goes on with this recently in Windows.

[shotokan101]

See exiftool command line posted here

https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/27245/is-there-a-free-program-to-batch-change-photo-files-date-to-match-exif

[BDennis]

Another thought - keep a backup copy of your files before running any tools over them. Nothing worse than losing original files because something modified them and wrote a zero byte file or something due to a bug.

[ajwh]

shotokan101, the link included how to do it with Irfanview - it's painless

Thanks

[Scottwin]

I use Olympus Workspace to import the files, this retains the creation date in the EXIF. I also use it to apply the correct (near enough) date to scanned negatives.

[Dennis Russ]

You can Change Everything in the Exif in Photoshop Or just Right Click your image and chose properties Security..

[MJ224]

Tried that, but can't see where you do the edit...

[Dennis Russ]

You have to Highlight each one. These---You double click AUTHOR if you need to change name. Same with Date Taken----Camera Model---ISO---Metering Mode...So you can change the date of each image if it shows wrong date.

[peak4]

If I'm reading your query correctly, the date in the exif is fine, as the date in the camera is correct.
That being the case, you're not looking to update your exif info, rather you're looking to update the way/order Win 10 displays the files.

If the dates are wrong in the camera, and thus the exif info, then you can, as described in other posts, use exiftool to modify the whole batch.

I keep my photos in folders based on date order, with a suffix in the name of the location, so I guess this or something similar is what you're after.
W10, by default lists the photos according to the date you download them, if that's the way you have the folder set to display files as you've seen, however there are other options available.

Display your folder with the downloaded pictures and allow W10 to sort in (wrong) date or filename order as you prefer.
From the top row of tabs select "View" and pick "Details" from the menu.
W10 Explorer will default to whatever you have previously selected for this type of folder.
Right click on the row of column headers, where you should now see another drop down menu, where you will (hopefully) find a selection of different headers.
At the bottom of that list, click "More"
In that list, there should be (hopefully again) a column header for "Date Taken", along with various other useful attributes.
You should then be able to index on that, and cut/copy/paste into other folders to suit.

This sort of thing can be quite handy if you have several different camera bodies with unique filename formats for each. (something you probably should do, to avoid inadvertent overwriting of files)

Also, if you first display in "Details", and sort as you prefer, when you then change view to "Large Icons" for example, it still retains your previously sorted order.

windows 10 folder screenshot by Bill Williams, on Flickr

What I'm looking for, is an easy way to pick out a final stacked jpg image from a folder full of RAW + JPG downloads, of mixed bracketed and unbracketed shots. (wouldn't it be good if you could save bracketed shots to the other memory card in an EM-1 Mk2)
The best I've come up with so far, is to index in filename or date order, and display as small or medium icons, but restrict the column width to 2 icons wide.
That way you have a vertical column of say ORFs which than changes to jpg as the extra stacked jpg shows up without a directly associated ORF file.
These and their linked JPG+ RAWs can then be moved to a different folder for alternative processing methods.