Tools to update exif? Better way to use Shotwell?

[stan]

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 07:25:32AM -0400, ssc1478 wrote:
> With the Ubuntu 10 releases, I used Picasa to manage my pictures. With
> Natty, I am giving Shotwell a try.
> 
> When I imported my pictures, Shotwell automatically created events based on
> the date the picture was created.  That worked fine for pictures I took with
> a digital camera.  But a lot of my pictures I scanned.  Those pictures have
> either no date or the scanned date in exif.
> 
> Shotwell has an option to adjust the picture date/time.  This is fine for a
> few pictures.  But it is cumbersome if you've got hundreds like I do.  In
> order to figure out the date I need to see the whole file name (when I
> scanned them, I included the date taken in the file name). Shotwell's only
> view (what I could find) is Icon View which means I can't see the whole file
> name - even with the extended information popup, the file name is cut off.
>  So for each image I want to change, I have to locate in Nautilus and switch
> to List View to find out the date.
> 
> Are there any scripts for Nautilus that will allow changing the picture
> date/time?  It would be great if I could right-click an image and change the
> Date Taken value in exif.
> 
> The only tool I found via google is exiftools.  It is command line only.  I
> am hoping to find a gui tool.
> 
Sounds like (if I understnad what you are syaing corectly), that th command
line tool is the perfect solution. Just use a simple shell script to
extract and format the date from the fileame, and call the appropriate
commnad to change the date in the file.

Am I missing something here?


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