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liontamer67

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Original poster
Mar 27, 2012
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So I have found a great app (listed on tips below) that will find and will change my metadata if it is actually the correct date. I always double check. And of course I refused for many years to switch from film to digital cameras 💁‍♀️(anyone else out there?📷) till about 2004 or 2005. So obviously those scanned have zero meta data and that program (Exifrenamer btw and takes donations) doesn't work with those.

MAIN QUESTION: So I am looking (and I will pay) for a program I can use on my mac air or 27" desktop that will easily change my metadata to YYYY-MM-DD and then military time (former navy and personally makes more sense to me for metadata) HH.MM.SS or HH:MM:SS

Anyway, any help?

My Tips:
1.
Exifrenamer is FREE pics (not movies), great to check bulk files for metadata and will let you know if it's not the original date and takes donations (I gave $20)
2. FREE metadata on .mov and pics is
metadata2go , but of course you download to their site (but I had trouble changing the metadata)
3. To rename a bunch of pics/movies in bulk searched by metadata and/or creation date is
A Better Finder Rename 11 (you tube video of why it's worth it and been using this for years and it is very user friendly...heck I don't even know all of the amazing stuff it can do). This one cost $ but worth every penny.

Thanks for help! 🤘
 

HDFan

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Jun 30, 2007
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MAIN QUESTION: So I am looking (and I will pay) for a program I can use on my mac air or 27" desktop that will easily change my metadata to YYYY-MM-DD and then military time (former navy and personally makes more sense to me for metadata) HH.MM.SS or HH:MM:SS

If you change the metadata format you could run into problems when other programs read the unexpected data format and to give you unwanted results.
 
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