Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 8 years ago
I'm sorry, but I was wrong. The title seems not to be related with the bug.
Some images get their date wrong and some of them simply won't get any
metadata. I found out those that have a wrong date are those that were modified
in iPhoto (they are taking the date of the modified file, as revealed in finder
from iPhoto), instead of taking the date that iPhoto shows (nor the date of the
original file). I'm sorry I diagnosed the issue wrong when opening the issue.
Original comment by m...@jordipradel.net
on 30 Sep 2012 at 1:50
I thing found out that I can run a two step process to solve this:
exiftool -overwrite_original "-modifydate<datetimeoriginal" <files> (which sets
modifydate correctly but updates filemodifydate to the current time)
exiftool -overwrite_original "-filemodifydate<datetimeoriginal" <files> (which
sets filemodifydate to the same date)
So it seems Finder is displaying modifydate or filemodifydate.
Original comment by m...@jordipradel.net
on 30 Sep 2012 at 4:20
This is deliberate, to track modifications to the file. This is the only way
other tools, like Google Picasa, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Bridge, etc. reliably
pick up update to the file. Those tools do the same thing, e.g. every time you
modify meta data in Adobe Lightroom, the file times change.
To properly track the time the picture was taken, look at the capture time in
the file metadata. All the tools mentioned above, as well as iPhoto and
Aperture, use the capture time, too, for sorting and display. They all ignore
the file time stamps.
Original comment by tsporkert
on 30 Sep 2012 at 9:49
Ok, I understand. Thank you very much for your really fast reponse time! And
thank you for maintaining this software!
Original comment by m...@jordipradel.net
on 30 Sep 2012 at 10:17
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
m...@jordipradel.net
on 29 Sep 2012 at 8:47