Created date and time of photos is totally wrong! I was doing weird things to fix that and I’ve finally found simple way. Why you need good “Date Created” info?īecause sometimes you really want to sort by date, or (like me) you want to mix photos from many sources and go through them chronologically like they are from one source. There are mostly three cases, where this metadata on MacOS side is incorrect: If you are taking photos with phone and camera at the same trip - that is probably your use case.Īlso you might want to search for photos taken at some time interval - without properly tagged date, good luck with that. Coping photos from your Android phone - “Date Created” becomes the time you copied photo.In theory it makes sense but in practice, it hurts.
Taking photos with camera but forgetting to change timezone on camera.This one is of course user error, there is nothing wrong with Mac here. Videos from phone - I don’t know why but videos from my phone sometimes have incorrect time set in EXIF data, even though name of the file (which contains time as well) is correct.Īd 2.īut still I think fixing this (moving timezones) should be much easier.Moving timezones is indeed easy when you use Apple’s Photos app. The issue is - I couldn’t see this change with filesystem (Finder). And I don’t want to be limited to Photos (or even Mac) for going through my pictures. They might be really good and do a lot of stuff but I want two very simple things: There are some (potentially) pretty good paid options, like “A Better Finder Attributes” (my personal favorite), “SetEXIFData”, “Photo Exifier”, “Exif Sync”.
That’s why I decided to solve this issue on my own - saving money and learning something at the same time! Also easy and free way - command line move time a few hours forward or backward.
Thing that took me a lot of time with different methods could be done with one simple command. It was written in Perl, which makes it even more impressive.Ī lot of things can be done with ExifTool so let’s focus on stuff I care about the most and go through it step by step: I present to you THE ALMIGHTY, EXCELLENT, SUPREME… EXIFTOOLĮxifTool is awesome, it is command line tool to “Read, Write and Edit Meta Information!”.
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