How can I batch-correct wrong photo capture dates on Windows before uploading to Google Photos?
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I have about 3,000 photos whose camera date/time was set incorrectly, so their EXIF capture dates are wrong by a fixed amount. I want to correct the timestamps in batch on Windows before uploading them to Google Photos, so they don’t get mixed in with existing photos in the wrong place.
Is there a Windows tool, preferably one that can shift all selected photos by a defined date/time offset rather than editing each file individually?
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You could try the (free) PyExifToolGUI which is a actually a frontend for the command line tool ExifTool. I don't know if the Windows installer needs you to install ExitTool (and several Python packages) separately.
The linked page has details of the manual and installation.
I have it on my system and you can select one or multiple files and set particular fields in the metadata (including the EXIF data).
To get used to it try copying some of your existing files to a temp folder and working on that copy to verify it does what you want.
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Yes. A common Windows option is to edit the EXIF metadata before upload using a batch tool.
From the answers provided, two tools were suggested:
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jhead: useful if all photos need the same date shift. It can offset the capture date for every JPG in a folder by a specified amount. Example:
jhead.exe -da2017:04:22-2015:07:21 *.jpgThis shifts the photos from the incorrect camera date to the correct starting date.
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PyExifToolGUI / ExifTool: a GUI front end for ExifTool that lets you select multiple files and edit metadata fields, including EXIF date fields.
For your case, jhead is the most direct fit if the error is consistent across the whole batch. Before running it on all 3,000 files, test on copies in a temporary folder to confirm the timestamps change the way you expect. Also note that tools like jhead are typically aimed at JPEG EXIF metadata.
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