free program to get jpeg date code from EXIF info ?

[oldcarguy]

Hi

 

somehow my friends wife lost 30,000 photos ......

 

then recovered them  but the name, date etc  she had on the photos was wiped ,

 

I think the EXIF info  will at least have the dates ,  and she can put them back in order by date the photo was taken ,

 

Is there a program that does this in bulk ?

 

Thanks for the help

[userabcd]

Colorpilot?

Faststone?

Irfan?

Ant Renamer?

 

I don't know if they can batch edit sort exif data but you could have a look at them.

[KhunBENQ]

Are you familiar with the command line?

 

I use a tool (single exe) named "jhead" and wrote me a batch ("pic_rename.bat"):
jhead -nf%%y%%m%%d%%H%%M%%S %*

 

This results in files named like this:

170913181655.jpg
170913183524.jpg
170913183527.jpg
170913183611.jpg
 

17=2017

09=September

13= day 13

181655 = 18 hours 16 minutes 55 seconds

I use this year/month/date format for easy sorting with Explorer or the like. Alphabetic sort = numeric sort.

I then move these September 2017 files to a subdirectory

"....2017\201709".

 

http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead/

 

OK, not an easy access

 

6 hours ago, userabcd said:

Irfan?

As far as I can see, Irfanview can not rename based on EXIF.

Only counters etc.

 

Guess there will be some free GUI tool.

Who does the search?

 

 

[KhunBENQ]

Of course a search for:

 

batch rename pictures (by) date (taken)

 

unveils misc stuff.

But as I don't know them I can't give any recommendation.

[katana]

http://www.takenet.or.jp/~ryuuji/minisoft/exifread/english/

[DTiger]

Just my advice, have been using it for years: https://www.advancedrenamer.com/

[WorriedNoodle]

Bulk Rename is another free file renaming app, does EXIF tags and ID3 from mp3.