Cheat sheet: modifying dates with exiftool

To view info for a file: exiftool -s -G myphoto.jpg To set the date based on the filename: exiftool -overwrite_original "-alldates filename" myphoto.jpg To set the date based on the XMP metadata date: exiftool -overwrite_original "-alldates MetadataDate" myphoto.jpg To set the date to a manually specified date if the photo doesn t already have a date: exiftool -overwrite_original Read More