Selective changing of file dates

My girlfriend and I are just back from a trip to Africa. We took about
1,500 photos between us, but now they are loaded on my PC, I noticed
that her camera was set to the wrong date. The day and month (also time)
are OK, but she had set the year as 2010, not 2009. This is important
because I want to be able to view the pictures in the order we took them.

I have been looking for ways of changing the year from 2010 to 2009 on
the files affected, without changing the other elements of the date, but
I can't find anything which would help. I don't want to have to do it
manually because over 800 pictures are involved.

Does anyone have any ideas?

While I haven't used it, this looks like a good possibility:
ExifTool
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

....Alan
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On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:28:23 +0000, in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics, Brian <bxxcfilm@nildram.co.uk>
wrote:

>My girlfriend and I are just back from a trip to Africa. We took about
>1,500 photos between us, but now they are loaded on my PC, I noticed
>that her camera was set to the wrong date. The day and month (also time)
>are OK, but she had set the year as 2010, not 2009. This is important
>because I want to be able to view the pictures in the order we took them.
>
>I have been looking for ways of changing the year from 2010 to 2009 on
>the files affected, without changing the other elements of the date, but
>I can't find anything which would help. I don't want to have to do it
>manually because over 800 pictures are involved.
>
>Does anyone have any ideas?

Brian wrote:
> My girlfriend and I are just back from a trip to Africa. We took
> about 1,500 photos between us, but now they are loaded on my PC, I
> noticed that her camera was set to the wrong date. The day and
> month (also time) are OK, but she had set the year as 2010, not
> 2009. This is important because I want to be able to view the
> pictures in the order we took them.
> I have been looking for ways of changing the year from 2010 to 2009
> on the files affected, without changing the other elements of the
> date, but I can't find anything which would help. I don't want to
> have to do it manually because over 800 pictures are involved.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas?

Attribute Changer...
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"Brian" <bxxcfilm@nildram.co.uk> wrote in message
news:O3rhbyXXKHA.4816@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> My girlfriend and I are just back from a trip to Africa. We took about
> 1,500 photos between us, but now they are loaded on my PC, I noticed that
> her camera was set to the wrong date. The day and month (also time) are
> OK, but she had set the year as 2010, not 2009. This is important because
> I want to be able to view the pictures in the order we took them.
>
> I have been looking for ways of changing the year from 2010 to 2009 on the
> files affected, without changing the other elements of the date, but I
> can't find anything which would help. I don't want to have to do it
> manually because over 800 pictures are involved.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas?

You need Touch Pro available from:

http://www.filecluster.com/System-Ut...-TouchPro.html

It will do what you want without paying for it, but if you register and pay,
further features are enabled which would make what you want to do easier.
As it is only about 10 bucks or so to register, it's hardly going to break
the bank.

Don Schmidt wrote:
> "SetFileDate" is a free program that will do it.
>
> http://www.no-nonsense-software.com/freeware/
>
>
Thanks Don. I have installed it, but I don't see how it can do what I
want. It only seems to be capable of changing file dates to one stated date.

What I need is something which will change the year, but leave the
hours, minute, second, day and month all alone.

Did you look at the link that Alan posted ?

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"Brian" <bxxcfilm@nildram.co.uk> wrote in message
news:OjgKKXkXKHA.4704@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Don Schmidt wrote:
>> "SetFileDate" is a free program that will do it.
>>
>> http://www.no-nonsense-software.com/freeware/
>>
>>
> Thanks Don. I have installed it, but I don't see how it can do what I want. It
> only seems to be capable of changing file dates to one stated date.
>
> What I need is something which will change the year, but leave the hours, minute,
> second, day and month all alone.
>

Peter Foldes wrote:
> Did you look at the link that Alan posted ?
>
Yes, but I couldn't immediately see how to work it. I tried the
Attribute Changer, that Shenan Stanley posted, and that works fine.

Many thanks - that worked for me!


Shenan Stanley wrote:
> Brian wrote:
>> My girlfriend and I are just back from a trip to Africa. We took
>> about 1,500 photos between us, but now they are loaded on my PC, I
>> noticed that her camera was set to the wrong date. The day and
>> month (also time) are OK, but she had set the year as 2010, not
>> 2009. This is important because I want to be able to view the
>> pictures in the order we took them.
>> I have been looking for ways of changing the year from 2010 to 2009
>> on the files affected, without changing the other elements of the
>> date, but I can't find anything which would help. I don't want to
>> have to do it manually because over 800 pictures are involved.
>>
>> Does anyone have any ideas?
>
> Attribute Changer...
> http://www.petges.lu/windows/windows.html
>