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

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.

Edited September 23, 20178 yr by userabcd

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?

 

 

Edited September 23, 20178 yr by KhunBENQ
used other example file names to avoid confusion

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.

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

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

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