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Girl M
08-15-2008, 11:27 AM
The date on my photos are wrong - HP Photosmart R507

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I have a HP Photosmart R507. (What a shock considering the title, hehehe.)


I've just realised that the date on my camera is 6 months out. I've had it for a couple of years (I know, I know, how could I not of noticed untill now.) so there are tons of photos that need the date changing.
Some of them are still on the camera and some of them are on laptops/PCs if that makes any difference.

How do I got about doing that?
Is there a way or a program that will do them all in one go?



Thanks for helping !
David Metsky
08-15-2008, 01:28 PM
There's no easy way to fix up the older images. Did you stamp the date on the image itself or are you just referring to the date stored in the file's EXIF field?

If the former (date's stamped on the image itself), there's nothing you can do. The date is part of the image and you'd need to change the pixels. That's ugly.

If the latter (EXIF information) you'll probably have to find a batch script or tool to do a mass update of the data. There's nothing in the camera that will help that I can think of, what you need to do is update the files.
SpecialK
08-15-2008, 08:38 PM
There is some freeware called "Set File Date" (I have it as setfd11.zip).

It will do batches.
Margus
08-16-2008, 03:18 AM
Don't you say, there seems to be one software which could help you, it's MS Pro Photo Tools. Look for a download link in another thread (http://www.dcresource.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40384) in this forum.
It seems to have the feature for adjusting EXIF date and time of several photos at a time. But be careful, when I tested the software then all I could do is to set the date and time of ALL selected images to the same value :D Adjustment of the date of photos was possible only one by one :(
Margus
08-16-2008, 08:45 AM
There is some freeware called "Set File Date" (I have it as setfd11.zip).

It will do batches.

Good point. I forgot the file date myself, thought only about the Exif date stored in the image file. So that Girl_M, if you are going to try fixing the dates of your photos then you have to change both of the dates, the ones in the the Exif information of your images and the dates of the files in Windows. Good luck! You need it because it will be far too easy to just mess the dates totally up :)