In the case of the photo above “somewhere in Larnaca” is good enough -that’s where we went for our customary end-of-highschool 5-day trip.

Again, I don’t need it to be 100% correct. Then I go to Google Maps and find the place they were taken in. For old photos, this takes some guesswork but that’s ok -it doesn’t have to be 100% accurate.

Next step is that, every time I have a new batch of scanned photos, I have to decide when and where they were taken. For Windows: download and install exiftool from here.For Linux: install exiftool using sudo apt install exiftool.I googled around and found the solution using exiftool and touch (on linux) or powershell (on windows). “Cyprus” (where the photo above was taken, a looong time ago) and it won’t get shown when I create a map of where I’ve been.įirst world problems, I know, but still. I also cannot find it by searching for e.g. My cloud photo app doesn’t display it on the right “On this day” day.

But then I have another problem: the date of the photos is not correct, and there’s no GPS location info (the so-called metadata). Useful for if many pictures do not have the CreateDate exif-property, but do have the DateTimeOriginal exif-property.So what I do is scan them and upload them to the cloud. mp4s:Įxiftool -overwrite_original '-datetimeoriginal PeopleTags.txt Exiftool sort photos to subfolders of Camera make and camera modelĮxiftool -r -v -overwrite_original -ext jpg '-filename Exiftool add CreateDate Exif Property and Copy DateTimeOriginal Exif Property Value into It Exiftool show all available EXIF tags of a fileĮxiftool -G1 -a -s Exiftool write all available date fields in EXIF data to first 15 characters of the file name (f. When it comes to mass editing lots of files, nothing beats the command line. Using this as my personal notepad, so to speak might be useful for someone.

Several Exiftool commands I have used to edit/sort my pictures and improve metadata. Useful Exiftool Commands (cheat sheet / examples)

Exiftool cheat sheet