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- shapesalad-1
So I've dragged a bunch of photos out of Apple's Photos.app to a folder in Finder, as I no longer want to use Photos.app and also want to back these photos up to an external drive.
However, now in finder they all have their created date and modified date set to today, rather than the date the photos were taken. The photos still have the correct date in their EXIF data.
How do I batch automate the re-dating of each photo by their EXIF date?
Ideally I want a finder a simple Automator 'Service' so I can repeat this fix in the future. I've found ExifTool app, but it's looks like I'd need to spend at least 2 hours getting my head around that and the terminal commands etc.
Ideally some AppleScript in an Automator service would do the job. I found a snippet of AppleScript that reads the EXIF of a jpg out, but next I need to strip the string that code returns to extract the date, then change the date of the photo to it.
Anyone know how to do this? Or a better way to do this? I've seen some paid softwares that do this, but to just change the date of a file it seems excessive to have to buy an app for that task.
- "Ideally I want to find a simple Automator 'Service'......"shapesalad
- how about moving the originals and not the new created exports? would save you the trouble.uan
- http://osxdaily.com/…uan
- ^ seems like that could work, just that each photo is in a folder within a folder within a folder etc.. this going to take some finder wrangling to sort out...shapesalad
- Maybe find where the Photos.app files folder is. Search it for any .jpg images. In the resulting the search drag them all into on new folder on desktop?Hayzilla
- BTW when i drag from the app onto desktop it doesn't reset dates for me!Hayzilla
- File->Export->Export Originals. Done.ArmandoEstrada