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editing jpeg metadata?

The_Glad_HatterThe_Glad_Hatter One Sly FoxUnderneath a Groovy HatRegistered User regular
edited April 2007 in Help / Advice Forum
So i recently scanned a lot of old photographs and imported them into iPhoto. They were all dragged into their appropriately named folders "1999 09 Summer", no problem there. However, when i go to my library the entire batch shows up somewhere in 2007 because, naturally, they were turned into jpegs only this month.

It's not a problem now, but if i ever lose my HD and have to import 'em all again to iphoto i'd have to rearrange them all again.

Is there a way for me to edit the "created on" date in a jpeg. (preferably on a mac, but i'm able to fire up the ol' pc if i have to). I googled a bit myself, but combinations of "metadata" and "edit" only gave me programs that could add metadata and edit your images and such.

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  • FristleFristle Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead/ was the first thing on Google, will this work?

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  • The_Glad_HatterThe_Glad_Hatter One Sly Fox Underneath a Groovy HatRegistered User regular
    edited April 2007
    It looks like it's perfect for the job.
    But, apparently i'm so much of a novice that i can't even understand what novice users are supposed to do in OSX.
    "Don't forget to set the executable bit after downloading the pre-built executables. Type "chmod +x jhead" at a shell window after downloading it to do this. You don't have to do this if you use one of the RPM packages."
    Not a clue what i have to do.

    But the pc version is an .EXE, so i'll try that out. Thanks!

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