[digiKam-users] Is changing the date of a photo a destructive process?

[Stefan Mueller]

there isn't any 'open with' in digikam win64:




2018-03-07 16:29 GMT+01:00 Andrey Goreev <aegoreev at gmail.com>:

> Right click- open with - others - then type your exiftool command followed
> by %U
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> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
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> -------- Original message --------
> From: Stefan Mueller <stefan.mueller.83 at gmail.com>
> Date: 2018-03-07 8:27 AM (GMT-07:00)
> To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the
> power of open source <digikam-users at kde.org>
> Subject: Re: [digiKam-users] Is changing the date of a photo a destructive
> process?
>
> would be nice if exiftool could be executed within digikam for such cases
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> 2018-03-07 16:14 GMT+01:00 Andrey Goreev <aegoreev at gmail.com>:
>
>> I might be wrong but I think BQM always produces a new file and the
>> operation is not lossless.
>>
>> You might want to use exiftool / exiv2 to shift date/time of multiple
>> pictures.
>>
>> Here is an example from exiftool website:
>>
>> Common metadata date/time tags are incremented by -6 hours, while
>> FileModifyDate is not changed:
>>
>> exiftool -alldates-=6 -P FILE(FOLDER)
>>
>>
>> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
>>
>> -------- Original message --------
>> From: woenx <marcpalaus at hotmail.com>
>> Date: 2018-03-07 7:30 AM (GMT-07:00)
>> To: digikam-users at kde.org
>> Subject: [digiKam-users] Is changing the date of a photo a destructive
>> process?
>>
>> So I want to correct the date to a bunch of pictures. If use the metadata
>> editor on the tools panel, I can just change it one by one. If I want to
>> process several at a time, I use the Batch Queue Manager.
>>
>> By default, the Batch Queue Manager does not overwrite pictures, you have
>> to
>> actively check that option, and there's also a whole "Saving images" tab
>> dealing with JPG quality and that kind of stuff.
>>
>> My question is: If I am just changing the date of a group of JPG pictures,
>> do they lose quality every time a change is made, or the batch queue
>> manager
>> just changes the metadata and leaves the picture intact?
>>
>>
>>
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