Namexif VS Exiv2

If you’re using Windows you can sort the folders by Date Taken or use a tool like NameExif to rename your photos by the date taken in 2023-06-20 12:00 format so they sort correctly. Source: 11 months ago

Https://us.digicamsoft.com/softnamexif.html I mean, this is like the first result on a Google search. I'm sure there are more sophisticated options if you dig harder. Source: about 1 year ago

I used NameExif https://us.digicamsoft.com/softnamexif.html first to rename all my files into created YYYY-MM-DD-HH-MM-SS-[event (optional)], then ran exifsort to move them all into YYYY-MM folders. Source: about 1 year ago

The Date Taken data should be preserved which is more important than the file date. You can sort your folders by Date Taken or what I do is use NameExif to rename my photos by date/time taken, which means they’ll always sort correctly and the info can never be accidentally lost. Source: almost 2 years ago

Alternatively what I do is rename my pictures by the date taken so they sort chronologically by file name using an app called Name Exif. Source: almost 2 years ago

I prefer exiv2 to exiftool. Smaller download and installation. https://exiv2.org. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

I'm sorry? So you're saying I should get the developer of the external source (output from exiv2 as it happens) to re-code so I get cleaner data? Really ... Source: over 1 year ago

There is a similar program called exiv2. Exiv2 is a C++ library, so it's more commonly used in other programs, while exiftool is written in Perl. Even the Windows "executable" is simply a minimal Perl interpreter and the code which is PAR packed. Source: over 1 year ago

I mentioned Exiv2 on a blog post from 2 years ago regarding Supporting ColdFusion with Command Line Programs. Someone in the Adobe ColdFusion Forum recently inquired how to "use ImageGetEXIFMetaData to try to get gps coordinates of an image". - Source: dev.to / almost 2 years ago