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Hi Luca,<br>
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My understanding is that to have a common system to all your photos
makes more sense sooner or later. Your problem relies on the
digitalized photos, so why to have to add an extra task to the
digital files? no need since all you have to do is to correct the
date on the scanned files.<br>
Are they many? not a problem as long as you know the year they were
taken and perhaps even a more accurate date. The tag tool is just
one part of the metadata and it allows you to add non standard
categories. Date/time is perhaps the most basic info in metadata and
thus not the most appropriate tool to deal with just the date field
of the metadata.<br>
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Instead, my recommendation is just to use the <u>dedicated</u> tool
"Adjust Time and Date", under the menu "Image". It provides a lot of
options to correct this info (even correcting the original/created
exif data). And you can select previously all the files that share
the same date and thus, correct them in one step. Then the timeline
will work for all your files as well as your filters etc. You can
filter using the tag "year" you added previously and then select all
the results to get their date corrected in one step. Then you can
select them again to remove their unnecessary "year" tag. And repeat
for each year.<br>
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regards<br>
gps<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 09/22/2015 02:21 PM, Luca Ferrari
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<pre wrap="">Hi all,
I ask here for a suggestion: I tend to apply to my pictures also a
"year" ag, so that at least I know which yer photos have been taken.
Why not using the timeline? Well, being the son of a professional
photographer I have a quite large archive, that is composed of digital
and re-digitalized (scanned) images. The latter do not have a good
timeline, of course, so I choose this strategy to apply the year tag,
and therefore to keep the collection coherent I applied also to
digital images.
But now that the images are almost always digitally-native, it is
becoming a little annoying.
Do you have a better strategy to face the problem? Or a way to
auto-apply a yeartag based on the timeline?
Thanks,
Luca
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