EXIF editor?

[Gerard]

I'm looking for a Windows 10 EXIF editor to edit some photos in PhotoStation. Some items I need to update are missing "Date taken & Time" and Location of photo. Would prefer a free or opensource app.

 

[Telos]

ExifTool by Phil Harvey

A command-line application and Perl library for reading and writing EXIF, GPS, IPTC, XMP, makernotes and other meta information in image, audio and video files. For Windows, MacOS, and Unix systems.

exiftool.org

 

[Gerard]

Hmm, anything with a GUI? Or some sort of easy to use interface, rather than command line work?

 

[Telos]

Hmm, anything with a GUI?

ExifToolGUI

 

[patm300e]

Right click the file from Windows File manager. Select Properties. You can edit it right there.
If you are looking for a GUI, try this: Get Photos Exif Editor - Microsoft Store

 

[Gerard]

Right click the file from Windows File manager. Select Properties. You can edit it right there.
If you are looking for a GUI, try this: Get Photos Exif Editor - Microsoft Store

Did that, but it doesn't allow you to edit everything.

 

[patm300e]

True, not everything, but it does allow date, camera manufacturer and camera model which I use.

 

[Gerard]

True, not everything, but it does allow date, camera manufacturer and camera model which I use.

Yes I need time and location

 

[Dakling]

You could give exif pilot ( by colorpilot) a try. Has a GUI, Windows 10 compatible and has a myriad of edit option. Plus it’s free for single pc usage

Editing, Creating and Viewing EXIF data with free Exif editor

Exif Pilot - free exif editor. View, create and edit EXIF metadata. Import or export EXIF tags from/to XML, MS Excel or TXT files.

www.colorpilot.com

 

[jeyare]

ExifTool by PH is a swiss knife for all possible batch tasks. Really recommend.
There are plenty features and scripting is famous.

I like also export to CSV for an advanced data analysis from the exif metadata

 

[FlyingPasty]

ExifToolGUI

ExifToolGUI

Use exiftool command line version on my w10 pc so thought I would give this a try (no probs about using command line but if there's a GUI version available to make life easier). Unfortunately seems to have intermittent problems extracting/refreshing tag values in the tag tree view. Doesn't seem to have been updated for a long time so had to revert back to command line version. Will probably give exit pilot (mentioned further down this thread) a try since it appears to be a live project

 

[jeyare]

directly from your NAS:

mkdir /opt/exiftool
cd /opt/exiftool
wget https://exiftool.org/Image-ExifTool-12.17.tar.gz
gzip -dc Image-ExifTool-12.17.tar.gz | tar -xf -
rm Image-ExifTool-12.17.tar.gz
cd Image-ExifTool-12.17
perl Makefile.PL

enjoy with ./exiftool

exiftool Application Documentation

or

Image::ExifTool

 

[jeyare]

When you will transfer (backup) photos from your smartphone, you will get files with "Modification date" of day of the backup.
Then you can change this date back to Creation Date easy by the ExifTool:

exiftool -CreateDate>FileModifyDate 'SourcePath'

e.g.: exiftool -CreateDate>FileModifyDate '/volume1/photos/...'

When you are not familiar with the JPEG extension and you need clean data structure, you can use:

exiftool -if '$filetype eq JPEG' -filename=%f.jpg --ext jpg  'SourcePath'

JPEG: current format (case sensitive) filter

When you like really clean data structure, you can rename the files by:

exiftool -fileOrder CreateDate -ignoreMinorErrors -recurse -extension jpg -d '%Y %m %d-iPhone%%-04.c.%%e' -filename<CreateDate 'SourcePath'

where:
- file order: based on Creation EXIF Date from each file
- ignoreMinorErrors: an Error ignore for simple errors e.g. when the file doesn't contain the Creation date. Useful, your process will continue.
- recurse: recursively process subdirectories
- extension: filter just for the "jpg" file type
- d: a n option to change filename by defined structure '%Y %m %d-iPhone%%-04.c.%%e' ... you will get "2020 07 21-iPhone-0054.jpg" file name
- filename<CreateDate: flename structure in the "-d" option is sourced from CreateDate EXIF record
- Source path as usual

enjoy

 

[jeyare]

OFC you need to clean/dedupe the files first, to save the NAS effort and disk space, especially when you will try to backup all photo files from the "Camera roll" & "Social media", don't mention video files.
Duplicate File Detective; it's worth the cost:
- SHA512 bits checksum
- byte for byte content match
- defined marking of the evaluated files (less effort for the deletion
- backup before delete
- and many others.

Duplicate File Finder Software for Windows

Duplicate File Finder Software for Windows

www.duplicatedetective.com

BTW:
- useful for deep music files dedupe
- for every kind of NAS content.
And the algorithm is really like a SkyRocket.

From the producers of the best storage space management (local or NAS) FolderSizes:

FolderSizes - Disk Space Analyzer and Folder Size Reporting Software for Windows

FolderSizes is a powerful, fast, network-enabled disk space analyzer and folder size reporting tool for Windows.

www.foldersizes.com