Re: [Shotwell] Importing old photos that don't have EXIF

[Gerrit Draisma <gdraisma xs4all nl>]

Hallo Adam,
With the renaming facility of jhead you can place the files in the 
correct directories.
I use
  jhead -n/home/gerrit/Pictures/%Y/%m/%d/%f *.JPG
Gerrit


On 08/29/2017 09:31 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On 2017-08-29 21:12, Jens Georg wrote:
> > On Tue, 2017-08-29 at 20:46 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > > On 2017-08-29 14:56, Adam Funk wrote:
> > >
> > > > But Shotwell falls back to the file timestamp and puts the file
> > > > here:
> > >
> > > You can change the event assigned to a photo or group of photos.
> >
> > But that won't move the photo in the new directory, if that's what you
> > are after.
>
> I place the photos in the correct directory manually, then start
> shotwell. The photos do not move, the directories are not renamed.
>
> In my case, I do not know the exact dates, so I name the events for a
> serial code of each roll, maybe the year if I know it. Some of my rolls
> cover two years.
>
> It is not optimal, I want to adapt the exif data more appropriately.
>
>
>
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