It’ll take a little time depending on how many images you have. If you do not have subfolders, then -r is not necessary.“japan” is the name of the folder, for my case.ģ. For my case, I was only concerned about the hours.“-r” is needed to apply changes to all files inside the subfolders. “0:0:0 15:0:0” stands for “years:months:days hours:minutes:seconds”. Once in my desktop, I run the command to edit all of the images inside the “japan” folder.Įxiftool “-DateTimeOriginal+=0:0:0 15:0:0” -r japan I do this so I don’t have to type the long directory location later when I run the command. So I had to do something a little different.įirst I point Terminal to my desktop. Next you will need to run the command to update the EXIF time stamp.įor my case, I had all my images in a folder called “japan” in my desktop, organized by date (subfolders). If the install worked, you should get something like this: Once it’s done, open Terminal and type in I used the .dmg file and ran the installer, it takes about a minute. So I thought I’d document it for myself and for other mac users with similar needs. It took a few minues to figure out what to do, and I’m sure I’ll forget next time I use this. The only downside for me is that it’s a command line tool and it’s got a vast number of features. After a few minutes of looking around I decided to go with Phil Harvey’s ExifTool. I did not want to buy an app that I would only use once a year, so I searched a little to see if there were other options. Since Japan is 14 hours ahead of Chicago, plus the 1hr daylight savings mistake, I had a need to add 15 hours to the “Date Taken” on 1000+ photos. The whole 2 weeks we were there, all of my photos were being stamped with Chicago time. And, while looking through my photos I realized that I forgot to change the time settings in my camera to Japan time. We recently returned from a trip to Japan.
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