Re: [Shotwell] Importing old photos that don't have EXIF

[Gerrit Draisma <gdraisma xs4all nl>]

O yes,
I see.
But can't you use jhead to put an Exiv header
with the correct time stamp in the jpg file?
I used
jhead -mkexif -ds2016:12:08 roaarrh.jpg
which set the exif Date to Thu Dec 8, 2016
and which was correctly imported by shotwell
and inserted in the Thu Dec 8, 2016 event.
HTH
Gerrit



On 08/30/2017 02:53 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On 2017-08-30 10:13, Gerrit Draisma wrote:
> > Hallo Adam,
> > With the renaming facility of jhead you can place the files in the
> > correct directories.
> > I use
> >    jhead -n/home/gerrit/Pictures/%Y/%m/%d/%f *.JPG
>
>
>        -n[format_string]
>                This  option  causes files to be renamed and/ or
>          mmoved using the date information from the Exif header
>          "DateTimeOriginal" field.  If the file is not
>          an Exif file, or the DateTimeOriginal does not
>          contain a valid value, the file date is used.
>
>
> which means this can not be used. Remember, we are talking of photos
> that do not contain valid EXIF data - see the subject line.
>
>
>
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