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I'm fairly sure I've asked this years ago and I seem to have found somwthing that worked but several installations of windows later I don't know how 🙁

I want to rename a load of photos to a format using the date they were taken, naming along the lines of 2015-08 001

ANyone know how to do this to large batchs of files ?
Free software preferred but ot essential


 
Posted : 22/08/2015 9:21 pm
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[url= http://www.faststone.org/ ]http://www.faststone.org/[/url] Resizer should do that for you.


 
Posted : 22/08/2015 9:25 pm
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I use EXIFTool, Google for the download on Windows/MAC

exiftool "-FileName<CreateDate" -d "%Y_%B_%d_%H_%M_%S.jpg" *.jpg

When this is run on any folder containing .JPG's it will change the file name from:
IMG_0087.JPG to 2014_October_14_10_09_57.JPG

effectively renaming it to the second it was taken.


 
Posted : 22/08/2015 9:35 pm
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Either of the above or namexif

http://www.digicamsoft.com/softnamexif.html


 
Posted : 22/08/2015 9:36 pm
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Oooh, thanks

I've had a faststone porogram on here before, so maybe it was that but I'll investigate all of these - cheers


 
Posted : 22/08/2015 9:52 pm
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Or you can use Bulk Rename Utility. http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/
It has loads of options for renaming files, including using the date taken from EXIF.


 
Posted : 22/08/2015 10:02 pm
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Ah, that is the one I used before, thanks - quite comlex IIRR. May chicken out & use one of the others


 
Posted : 22/08/2015 10:11 pm

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