MPG: hard to say since Apple Mail is the buggiest software I use. Doing this task with MS outlook software does work correctly by keeping the original dates. Maybe this is related: Moving mail with apple mail from one mailbox account to another account to resulted into changed mail dates (move date). This might or might not be desirable, e.g., when a file actually has been modified but has not had this date destroyed by the macOS Finder bug. If it desired to set both the file creation and the file modification date to "DateTimeOriginal", substituted "FileModifyDate" for "FileCreateDate" in the commands above. # Example #2: change all items on a volume name "Master", recursivelyĮxiftool "-DateTimeOriginal>FileCreateDate" -v -r "/Volumes/Master" # Example #1: change to desired directory/folder, change all items recursivelyĬd exiftool "-DateTimeOriginal>FileCreateDate" -v -r. The change will fail on locked DNG files.The quotes shown are straight quotes and are critical do not omit the quotes.I’ll give several examples-lines starting with a # are comments. This has to be done in Terminal at the command line.įirst, open a Terminal window eg /Applications/Utilities/Terminal. Step 1: download and install exiftol.ĭownload and install MacOS package for exiftool: Use Integrit圜hecker first to update all files, then backup, then verify the backup, then after using exifool, verify again Integrit圜hecker should detect and report “HASHES_MATCH_DATE_CHANGED” for all files for which the dates were updated. This goes without saying when running wholesale changes: make a backup or three.Īs with any wholesale data change, I strongly recommend using diglloydTools Integrit圜hecker to validate data.
UPDATE: the easier/better way for most users to do this fix is to Use Graphics Converter to Fix Image File Dates. But for now I wanted a fix for the wanton destruction wrought by Apple Core Rot. I considered writing code to do so, and might still do so because for a few reasons.
Since the macOS Finder destroys file dates when moving files from one volume to another, I needed a fix for the thousands of images whose metadata had been destroyed. SEND FEEDBACK Related: backup, data integrity, diglloydTools, exiftool, Integrit圜hecker
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