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Does anyone know of such a thing?

I specify a directory and it finds all the photos in the directory & its sub-directories & if they contain EXIF date/time it sets their Windows timestamp to match the EXIF

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This is the inverse of Is there any software which will set the EXIF Dates based on the file's modification date?, and I'm sure all of the programs listed there will apply. jhead is my suggestion. eg the command

  • jhead -ft *.jpg

sets a bunch of files so that the file timestamp matches exif — but it doesn't do recursion into subdirectories. (You could use a small batch script to do that.)

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You are right, this is the opposite but infinitely more useful :) – Itai Sep 14 '12 at 17:11
jhead is very useful for this - AND for many other jpg file manipulations. Be careful when using it - it is an extremely powerful tool that can wreak a certain amount of havoc if misused. I recommend using it in a batch file so you always do what you intend, and testing the result on a test file set first. – Russell McMahon Sep 14 '12 at 23:23
+1 but I awarded myself the answer ;-) Just so others in future can find a way to do exactly what I asked ... – Mawg Sep 19 '12 at 4:39
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I suggested it to the author of PhotoRenamer, who replied ...

PhotoRenamer 3.2 www.tgmdev.be/bin/PhotoRenamer_Setup_19Sep2012.exe

I add a button in the ‘Options’ tab of the Ribbon .. From there, you can select the option for updating the file time status of the file ..

By the way, to avoid the use of mask, I also add a new mask attribute: %F. If you use this simple mask, the file is renamed ... with it’s own name ... So you are not obliged to rename the file for which you want to update the file time attributes ...

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