[Gnome] How do I sort images by date taken? Yes, I could boot Windows and do it ...

[Olotila]

... but I prefer Linux.

When I copy images from my phone to PC, the date changes to time of the copying. How do I sort images so, that I can select them by which month they were taken?

[TheFu]

My images usually have either a timestamp in the filename or a sequence number in the filename which if sorted alphabetically will keep the order that the photos were taken.

If that is NOT the situation, you'll need to use the exif data. Check the dates using something like exiftool. Or you can load shotwell (or the 10 other photo management tools for Linux) and let them do this for you. f-spot,
http://itsfoss.com/image-applications-ubuntu-linux/ has some.
http://lifehacker.com/5877908/the-best-photo-management-app-for-linux has some more options.

I just let my photo web-app handle it.

[buzzingrobot]

Any chance the camera settings can be adjusted to put a timestamp in the filenames it creates?

Default filenames coming out of cameras tend to be pretty useless, in my experience.

[QDR06VV9]

And there is always View by Modification Date.

[TheFu]

exiftool *jpg|grep -Ei 'Original|File Name'

So it wouldn't be too hard to rename the existing filenames to have the yyyymmdd-hhmmss-original_filename.ext.

Just sayin'.

Plus it is a best practice to store photos in yyyy/mm/event/ directory structures, so the photos will always be within a day if they are in the same directory. Nothing matters more than the date of a photo for most people. Followed by location and subjects.

[buzzingrobot]

exiftool *jpg|grep -Ei 'Original|File Name'



I will use that. :p

I'm lazily working out a lazy person's workflow that avoids app-specific catalogs, tags, and such. A filename can be used to contain a lot of info if you devise a useful format and discipline yourself to adhere to it.

[TheFu]

http://blog.jdpfu.com/2011/01/05/tips-for-digital-photo-organiz-storage-and-archival - step 6 is the gist of what I do.

[buzzingrobot]

Thanks. Appreciate that.

[QDR06VV9]

http://blog.jdpfu.com/2011/01/05/tips-for-digital-photo-organiz-storage-and-archival - step 6 is the gist of what I do.
This certainly makes the most sense!
Thanks for the detailed link much Appreciated.;)

[Olotila]

Any chance the camera settings can be adjusted to put a timestamp in the filenames it creates?



Pics and videos taken by different devices, also screenshots etc. I also want to handle old pictures sometimes, so this does not help.


And there is always View by Modification Date.

Modification date is the time, when I moved the pics from camera to PC, not time when picture taken.

Thanks guys for the other options, I'm looking those up. Also looking for a way to integrate exif data to say Nautilus, or some other filemanager.

[TheFu]

https://askubuntu.com/questions/33359/app-for-viewing-photos-with-properties-exif-display says that nautilus can do this. I don't use file managers, so don't know if/how that works.

[Olotila]

Any opinions about this?

http://www.webupd8.org/2010/10/music-and-exif-metadata-information-in.html

[TheFu]

Any opinions about this?

http://www.webupd8.org/2010/10/music-and-exif-metadata-information-in.html

It is 5 yrs old and ran on basically, marginally different OSes than what we are running today.
If you do try it, be certain you have excellent backups for anything you cannot do without and when I say that, I mean
* the entire OS - if you can do without it - don't back it up.
* the OS settings - usually /etc/
* Personal settings - basically your HOME.

Good luck.

[Olotila]

Well, I could not trust the 5 years old software, so I booted to Windows and was done with the task in 5 minutes. Maybe I will use gThumb or similar in the future, but now I go with non-networked Windows. Sad but true.

[TheFu]

Well, I could not trust the 5 years old software, so I booted to Windows and was done with the task in 5 minutes. Maybe I will use gThumb or similar in the future, but now I go with non-networked Windows. Sad but true.

Doesn't Windows accomplish this by creating temporary files somewhere that never get cleaned up? XMP-something?

[Olotila]

Well, I dont trust windows at all anymore, so I was offline when logged in and cleaned temp folders before logging out.