Re: How to add EXIF date from file-date

In article <fpb4u1$1cg$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Matt Ion
<soundy106@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> 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.

that's very likely, but fortunately the best tool for the job,
exiftool, runs on mac/win/unix, so it really doesn't matter what
operating system he uses.  also, i think one of the examples in the
help will write the file modification date to the exif date. 

<http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/>