Tools to update exif? Better way to use Shotwell?

[ssc1478]

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 2:17 PM, stan <stanb at panix.com> wrote:

> 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?
>
Thanks for the reply!

The dates in the filename are not uniform.  Sometimes it is the name of
months, sometimes the number of the months, sometimes the day is omitted if
it wasn't known.  So I don't think I could programmaticaly parse the date.

Phil
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