Is it possible to name multiple pictures by the date and time they were taken?
I find that if I try ot do this in finder it names all the pictures by todays date instead.
PS: I can not do this in the «Picture» app because my iMac is to old to update this program – and the program can therefor no longer be used fluently between my maskines. (My laptop has the new version, but than I can not go back to work on my iMac... :(
iMac 27″, macOS 10.15
It is possible without installing Xcode (to get the SetFile command) by installing the free ExifTool and using that to assign the DateTimeOriginal, or DateTimeCreated metadata to the renamed filename. You can process a directory of images with one command if needed. See, How can I rename files to match their EXIF "created date"?
It is possible without installing Xcode (to get the SetFile command) by installing the free ExifTool and using that to assign the DateTimeOriginal, or DateTimeCreated metadata to the renamed filename. You can process a directory of images with one command if needed. See, How can I rename files to match their EXIF "created date"?
Another (and I think easier) method is to use Automator. You can learn how to rename files using Automator in Using Automator to Rename Files and Folders (lifewire.com). You can also find a number of Youtube videos that explain how to do it. I did a search in Youtube using "automator to rename photos", please try that.
Double-click the ExifTool-12.37.pkg installer again. You will rceive the following dialog as you mentioned:
Click OK, and immediately visit System Preferences > Security & Privacy panel > General, and click Open Anyway button on that panel:
This will offer still another dialog which you click Open:
and then the ExifTool pkg installer will run and present you with the customary installer panel. You will need your administrator password to complete the installation. The ExifTool binary will be in /usr/local/bin/exiftool, and if your Terminal shell PATH is set to include the /usr/local/bin path, then you should be able to launch exiftool without the full path.
This installation of ExifTool via this pkg installer does not include a man page, but you can get that content with the following in the Terminal:
exiftool -h
This will be paginated output so you can press the spacebar to advance a page. Or, you can redirect the entire documentation to a text file on your Desktop:
exiftool -h >& ~/Desktop/exiftool.txt
I get this message when I try to install it:
«"ExifTool-12.37.pkg" cannot be opened because it is from an unknown developer.
macOS cannot confirm that this program does not contain malware.»
Naming pictures by date taken