How to add EXIF date from file-date

Matt Ion wrote:
> l v wrote:
>> H.S. wrote:
>>> John Navas wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:26:18 -0800, Matt Ion <soundy106.RemoveThis@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote
>>>> in <fpb4u1$1cg$1@registered.motzarella.org>:
>>>>
>>>>> l v wrote:
>>>>>> Lars-Erik Østerud wrote:
>>>>>>> I have a huge amount JPG photos WITHOUT EXIF date indo.
>>>>>>> But it seens like the PS3 only uses EXIF date for sorting.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Så all images without EXIF date ends up in the current
>>>>>>> year and month (like "FEB 2008" or "2008") when sorting.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have the original date in the files "date modified",
>>>>>>> but need a program then can create the EXIF date info
>>>>>>> from the file-date. But I can only find the opposite
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Anyone know how to copy the file-date to the EXIF date
>>>>>>> for several >1000 JPG files in an easy way? Please?
>>>>>> What operating system?
>>>>> I find that almost universally, it's the non-Windows users who are
>>>>> intelligent enough to provide OS information. Your typical Windows
>>>>> (l)user doesn't understand that not all computers run on Windows.
>>>>> Thus it's safe to assume that we're dealing with some version of
>>>>> Windows here.
>>>>
>>>> It's a matter of market share, not intelligence.
>>>> Insulting Windows users does you no credit.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Rephrased:
>>> Non-windows users are more aware of what they are dealing with and
>>> tend to provide relevant information when asking questions here. Most
>>> Windows users, however, take it for guaranteed that everyone else is
>>> using Windows too. They are as likely to be completely ignorant of
>>> any other kinds of OSes as well.
>>
>> Not true. I recently responded to a post where the OP was looking for
>> image cataloging software. After I responded with my windows centric
>> answer, the OP replied that he was a Mac user.
>
> Still true: note such qualifiers as "most", "typical", "likely", etc.
>
> There are exceptions both ways, but the overwhelming majority of cases
> hold to the generalizations above.
>

That would be the difference between stereotyping and generalizing. By
using qualifiers you stay away from the absolutes which is always wrong.

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On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:58:29 -0800, Blinky the Shark
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<pan.2008.02.19.08.58.25.708002 DeleteThis @thurston.blinkynet.net>:

>Ron Hunter wrote:

>> Typically, Windows users assume that everyone IS using Windows, probably
>> because 95% of computer users ARE using Windows. It is a reasonable, if
>> not always correct, assumption, if the OS in use is not stated. Hardly
>> an insult, in any case.
>
>And, of course, they naively assume that it's never relevant what
>*version* of Windows they're using. And I'm being kind by using
>"naively".

It often isn't relevant, in part because the great majority are using
2000/XP/Vista in any event.

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John Navas wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:58:29 -0800, Blinky the Shark
> <no.spam DeleteThis @box.invalid> wrote in
> <pan.2008.02.19.08.58.25.708002 DeleteThis @thurston.blinkynet.net>:
>
>>Ron Hunter wrote:
>
>>> Typically, Windows users assume that everyone IS using Windows, probably
>>> because 95% of computer users ARE using Windows. It is a reasonable, if
>>> not always correct, assumption, if the OS in use is not stated. Hardly
>>> an insult, in any case.
>>
>>And, of course, they naively assume that it's never relevant what
>>*version* of Windows they're using. And I'm being kind by using
>>"naively".
>
> It often isn't relevant, in part because the great majority are using
> 2000/XP/Vista in any event.

Often isn't the same as never. And in more computer-technical-oriented
groups I see people using Win98SE pretty much every day. And plenty of
issues specific to versions. Granted, not in this group.


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follow-up ignored.

On 2008-02-18, H.S. <hs.saDELETEMEmix.TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote:
> nospam wrote:
>
>> <http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/>
>
> Interesting. Would you know if this tool works in a batch mode in
> Windows? In Linux, I can type up bash commands in a few minutes to do
> this job automatically for any number of files. But if the tool doesn't
> work in batch mode in Windows, the user is going to take ages to do this
> one by one for his thousands of pictures!

Run bash on windows:

http://www.cygwin.com
http://win-bash.sourceforge.net/

many others available with a google search

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On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:26:18 -0800, Matt Ion <soundy106 DeleteThis @gmail.com>
wrote:

>l v wrote:

>I find that almost universally, it's the non-Windows users who are
>intelligent enough to provide OS information. Your typical Windows
>(l)user doesn't understand that not all computers run on Windows. Thus
>it's safe to assume that we're dealing with some version of Windows here.

Bzzzzzzzzt. Sloppy thinking here.

The real reason is that non-Windows users have had to deal all their
(computer) lives with the fact that they are in a very small minority.
Windows users probably understand that their system is the same one
that most people use.

At this time, given the poor market acceptance of Vista and the fact
that Windows XP has been around since about 2002, you can safely
assume that the OP is probably running Windows XP.

Father Kodak
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