[KPhotoAlbum] EXIF (and equivalent META data for non-jpeg) creation date

[Risto H. Kurppa]

Hi!

Exiftool actually isn´t that bad, see exiftool --help or man exiftool
for examples (or try google).

Risto

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Murray Strome <wmstrome at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the information and suggestions. A related question: is there a way to change the creation date in the EXIF information using KPhotoAlbum? I am using version 4.1.1
>
> EXIFTool can do it, but I have not found a GUI for it in Kubuntu (or any LINUX variant), and it is a bit daunting to try to learn how to do it from a command line.
>
> Murray
>
>
> --- On Wed, 6/23/10, Clair Johnston <cbj0129 at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
>> From: Clair Johnston <cbj0129 at bellsouth.net>
>> Subject: Re: [KPhotoAlbum] EXIF (and equivalent META data for non-jpeg) creation date
>> To: kphotoalbum at kdab.net
>> Received: Wednesday, June 23, 2010, 5:37 AM
>> Murry,
>>
>> The first thing I do when I move photos from the camera to
>> the computer is to change the photo name to include the date
>> taken.  So, the new name would look something like
>> 100622_2343.jpg.  I store them in a series of
>> directories of the form
>> Photos->Year->Month->Other-breakdown. KPhotoAlbum
>> is then used to categorize the photos.
> ============
> I have just started doing this (should have done it years ago) and that is how I noticed that after copying the files to the directories I had created for this purpose had changed creation dates. E.G. I copied the photos I took on June 3 to a directory called 2010-06-03-Birthday (I am putting the date first so that when listed by name, they will be in date order), I saw that all the photos now show a creation date of May 30 2010.
> =============
>>
>> I have not seen any problems with applications changing the
>> date taken, but then I archive the originals and only modify
>> copies.
> =======================
> I would like the creation date of the copies which I modify to be the same as the originals. I am primarily a LINUX user, but I have seen this happen using Windows Explorer in Windows.
> =======================
> =======================
>>As Jasper says, KPhotoAlbum does not modify
>> the creation date (or any other parameter) unless explicitly
>> requested.
> =======================
> Is there a way to explicitly request that the creation date be changed it KPhotoAlbum?
> =======================
>>Most applications can be configured to retain the
>> date taken, so you may want to check your applications
>> configuration settings.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>> Clair
>>
>>
>> Jesper K. Pedersen wrote:
>> > KPhotoAlbum is not changing the data in the files, nor
>> does it move any files around, so these changes may come
>> from other tools.
>> >
>> > KPA may change the data it is considering - but that
>> would be from you actively doing so.
> =======================
> Is there a way to explicitly request that the creation date be changed it KPhotoAlbum?
> =======================
>> >
>> > You can ask KPA to reread the EXIF info from the file
>> (or file creation date, if the file do not have a EXIF
>> info), using Maintainance->Read EXIF info from files.
>> >
>> > Cheers
>> > Jesper.
>
>
>
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