#Batch file rename to date taken download
#Batch file rename to date taken free

I tired some of the things mentioned, and none worked.Ģ) Related to that, there's no way to contact the developer for help and no help option.ģ) It can't rename files sequentially, so basically they'd all be renamed the same thing and then I'd have to manually add something to differentiate them (i.e. If the 'regexp tester' is supposed to help me, it doesn't.

#Batch file rename to date taken download

I think that the Bulk File Renamer was a much better option with better logic, despite it's 3 star rating and the fact that it's no longer verified by Google and therefore unavailable for download (since it can't be linked to a Drive account).ġ) There are no instructions that I can find and if they exist they should be much more obvious. I find it's 4 star rating extremely suspect considering that it doesn't perform basic renaming functions, and also because only 36 reviews are available out of the alleged 440.

#Batch file rename to date taken free

This command could still be improved but it is tested and working on a large (40GB, 13000 images) photo library and it's quick and produces no errors, only failing to rename the occasional image that is missing a tag that most any modern camera will create.I understand that this is a free extension, but I honestly don't see the point of it and wish there was a better option. The second one I couldn't resolve but I only saw it for a few images, so I manually renamed them in Nautilus as a workaround.

~/Pictures/ is the last item, it's just the directory that exiftool should process with the command.Ī note about errors, the -ignoreMinorErrors helps but still you may see the message 'Warning: Bad PreviewIFD directory' which is safe to ignore or 'Warning: No writable tags set from /path/to/problem/image.jpg'.

We'll use hyphenated four-digit year then two-digit month and day ( %Y-%m-%d) followed by a three-digit number starting with 001 ( %%-.3nc), preserving the original file extension (.

-d %Y-%m-%d%%-.3nc.%%e Here -d sets the desired output date format.

'-FileName

-ignoreMinorErrors Ignore any errors which don't affect our desired result (usually problems reading unrelated tags which aren't necessary for this operation).

(Note these aren't case-specific and jpg=JPG so we catch everything)

-extension jpg -extension jpeg will make sure only JPEG files are processed.

Let’s show you the script, and then explain how it works: strComputer. Now it’s time for the second and final step: renaming each of the files.

-recurse recursively processes subdirectories, which is helpful if you use Shotwell to import because photos are placed in directories organized by date. For Each objFile In FileList strDate Left(objFile.CreationDate, 8) Wscript.Echo strDate Next.

Then go back to Format section and you'll see previewed names for your files like 002). Make a decision if you need 'reset counter on folder change'). This is critical to preserve the image numbering within a day in the original chronological order. You'll need to setup the Counter format (Numbers section, check 'Replace current filename' option, click 'Setup Counter', put '3' to 'Zero pad' if you need names like 002, 003.

-fileOrder DateTimeOriginal forces exiftool to process the images in the same order they were taken.

To explain the command fully, here's how it works. To rename your entire image library of JPEG photos to the YYYY-MM-DD-XXX.jpg format, counting up and starting from -001 each new day, use this command with exiftool: exiftool -fileOrder DateTimeOriginal -recurse -extension jpg -extension jpeg -ignoreMinorErrors '-FileName batch file rename to date taken

Each folder in my library represents a day, and I want the photos ending in numbers from 001-999, starting with 001 for each folder. I want it to rename photos by their date taken metadata, with a three-digit number at the end. I'm using pyrenamer with my photo collection and it works great except for one issue.