I'm using Linux Mint and have about 2,000 images which have either incorrect or missing EXIF Date tags. I would like to use the date contained in the filename to write the tags. I've spent a few hours trying to figure out how to do this in ExifTool but haven't managed to get very far unfortunately.
The files are in the format: YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS.jpg. However there are some duplicate filenames (different images though, so I can't just delete the duplicates) which are of the format YYYMMDD_HHMMSS(1).jpg. Lastly, there are some images which were shot in burst mode and are of the format YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS_001.jpg.
I'm familiar with the basics of Python so was able to tidy up some other naming issues and get the files to a point where the first 15 characters of every file name adhere to the same format. So I was hoping I could somehow use just the first 15 characters of each file as input to write the tags. I think I need something along the lines of:
exiftool '-AllDates<$Filename...'
...but I cant figure out how to do the advanced formatting which needs to go on the end. Would someone be able to help me out?
I did see this question but it didn't help in my case.
Answer
You command is mostly correct as written. See Exiftool FAQ #5, 3rd paragraph.
The only suggestion I have is to remove the dollar sign, as it would be unneeded for this operation.
exiftool '-Alldates
This command creates backup files. Add -overwrite_original to suppress the creation of backup files. Add -r to recurse into subdirectories.
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