#Batch file rename to date taken how to#
#Batch file rename to date taken mac#

I *think* I understand how it should work in theory, but the problem is it doesn't see the original date even though Show Inspector does. What I've seen so far: ExifRenamer - Does not work for some reason. This is the actual date the file is taken. I need to rename the files to the date shown in Show Inspector>More Info>Exif>Date Time Original.

#Batch file rename to date taken mac#

So I need to relatively easily batch rename the files in this way without having to keep the HEIC format, which is also not helpful because I use both Mac and PC. It doesn't matter when the file was made, it matters when the photo was actually taken.

#Batch file rename to date taken how to#

I do not need to know how to do this - I understand EXACTLY how to do this, but again, it's useless information to me. To best describe what I want, based on experience I need to specify what I do not want:įinder sorts them by 'Date Created/Modified/Last Opened/Added' but this addresses file creation date, which does not help me at all because I need to organize by date taken. Using the -fileOrder DateTimeOriginal argument makes sure that images are processed in order, and numbering strictly follows that order, otherwise shots takes in quick succession are not guaranteed to be renumbered in exact order they were taken.I have PNG files I exported from Photos. Numbering begins at 001 and continues to 999, so if you shoot 1000 or more images in one day you must modify the script (change 3nc to 4nc, the numeric value = how many digits to use). Selected files are renamed in the following pattern YYYYMMDD-001.jpg. It also ignores any files that are not JPEGs so I do not need to worry about what is in subdirectories. I use the following script, placed in ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts (this should work for any Linux distro using Nautilus as a file manager): #!/bin/bashĮxiftool -fileOrder DateTimeOriginal -recurse -extension jpg -ignoreMinorErrors '-FileName batch file rename to date taken

There is also logic to automatically add an incrementing trailing digit if the target filename already exists.Īlso, I usually add -autorot and -ft to the command line, to match image orientation to the camera's rotation sensor and to make the file time match the exif time. Use -nf instead of just -n to override this. Note that there is logic to attempt to not rename files which already are mostly digits, which keeps the command from accidentally acting twice. which gives the date (and not the time) and the original filename, like 20181226-DSC_0596.jpg. You can use %f to also include the original filename (without extension). jpg in the current directory to a format like 20181226-111141.jpg. Will automatically rename all files ending in. It's a command-line tool available for Linux, Mac, and Windows. If you use this method to copy images from a card into some other directory and then run it again on the same set of images, you will end up with identical files numbered 000 and 001.įor simple things where the flexibility, power, and complication of ExifTool aren't necessary, I like to use the tool jhead. Note that this does not weed out duplicates. When picking a name, ExifTool will keep incrementing the copy number until it finds a filename that doesn't exist and rename the file to that. If you had multiple files created during the same second, each successive rename would overwrite the last file and all you'd get is the last one. You can also specify individual images if you want.Ībout the copy number: This is an important thing to put in your filenames because many cameras don't provide fractional seconds in their timestamps. is the path of the directory where you want to operate. The next argument tells ExifTool to change the filename to whatever is in the CreateDate field in the EXIF using the date format specified earlier.įinally, the. I'll explain why that's important in a minute. The three zeros after the time are a copy number put there by %%-03.c in the date format. The pattern contains date format codes that fill in various bits and pieces from the date. The -d switch tells ExifTool to format dates according to the next argument's pattern.

It has a steep learning curve, but once you're over it, the kind of renaming you're after is a snap: exiftool -d '%Y%m%d-%H%M%%-03.c.%%e' '-filename