Renaming photos based on date/time

[Dotan Cohen]

On 09/10/06, Steven P. Ulrick <lists-fedora at afolkey2.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Oct 2006 12:38:07 +0200
> "Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I have a recursive directory of photos with inconsistent file-names.
> > Is there a program that will rename all the files, based upon the time
> > and date that the photo was taken? Can I do this with bash (that means
> > that bash will need to read the exif data)? Thanks in advance for any
> > ideas.
> >
> > Dotan Cohen
>
> Hello
> I know that you specifically asked for a command line utility that
> would accomplish what you want.  But if you would not mind trying a
> graphical application, KRename will do what you want.
>
> For an experiment, I started out with a tree of 7 directories and 44
> files.  The file names started out looking like this:
> 100_0219.JPG 100_0220.JPG 100_0221.JPG 100_0222.JPG 100_0223.JPG
> 100_0224.JPG 100_0225.JPG 100_0226.JPG 100_0227.JPG 100_0228.JPG
>
> I then went through the following steps after opening up KRename:
> 1. Clicked the "Add" button and navigated to the root of the series of
> directories that contained the files that I wanted to rename.
> 2. Checked the box names "Add sub-directories recursively" and then
> clicked "Open"
> 3. I then clicked the "File-name" tab.  This is where we start to
> construct the file-name the way that you want it.
> 4. In the "Template" box, I delete the "$" symbol.  That eliminates the
> old file-name from the "Renamed" preview column.
> 5. Next I click the "Functions" button and select "JPEG EXIF Info" from
> the drop down menu.
> 6. This brings up a list of over twenty choices.  For this experiment,
> I picked the following (I added the " - " between choices for
> formatting purposes.  You can leave that out or put whatever you want
> in there):
> [jpgCreationDate] - [jpgCreationTime] - [jpgDate/time]
> 7. I then clicked the "Finish" button.  This resulted in recursively
> renamed jpgs that look like this:
> 06/05/03 - 07:04:59 am - 06/05/03 07:04:59 am 01.JPG
> 06/05/03 - 07:15:24 am - 06/05/03 07:15:24 am 02.JPG
> 06/05/03 - 07:15:38 am - 06/05/03 07:15:38 am 03.JPG
>
>
> Unfortunately, my system doesn't display the "/" symbol correctly, so
> the file-names only look exactly like that in Konqueror.  But you could
> use KRename to change the "/" symbol to whatever you want it to be.
>
> You can get the most recent version's FC5 RPM here:
> http://umn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/krename/krename-3.0.12-1rhfc5.i386.rpm
>
> Here is the KRename download page:
> http://www.krename.net/Stable.6.0.html
>
> Hope this helps,
> Steven P. Ulrick
>

Thanks, Steven. I will give Krename a shot. I completely forgot about
this program. What;s good about a GUI app, that the wife can use it
when uploading pics from the camers. Thank you very much

Dotan Cohen

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