JPGDateChanger for Windows

User Reviews

• Works GREAT!

  bob dillonSeptember 29, 2012

  Pros

  Super super simple - Just drag and drop

  Cons

  Can not set your own chosen date nor add any offset to the EXIF date

  Summary

  Fantastic - does exactly what it claims. Use it!!

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• did what it said it wouild do...and what i needed.

  cnetjxaJanuary 15, 2010

  Pros

  simple. no installation needed.

  Cons

  can't think of anything

  Summary

  my hat is off for the person who wrote this. i had lost my dates and that is very important to me. saved me tons of time.

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• Exactly the tool I needed

  mchambers_autocamDecember 8, 2008

  Pros

  Does one function as is described by the developer. Drag'n Drop a file onto the application and it will update the Date Last Modified to the Date Picture Taken if it is a JPG file.

  Cons

  You can only Drag'n Drop files on the application. Would be nice to Drag'n Drop a folder and have it enumerate through the sub-folders.

  Summary

  Over the many rebuilds of my wife's computer, the Date Last Modified had grown increasingly out of sync with the Date Picture Taken. I used this tool to update all her pictures Date Last Modified which allows her to easily search through her pictures again. Great tool. Thank you!!!

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• Does one thing simply and well.

  P_D_UserSeptember 7, 2008

  Pros

  It works. Clean, minimalist design.

  Cons

  Minor con: Overwrites the"file modified" date with no backup. The original date is lost, so be sure you don't need it for anything!

  Summary

  This program easily sets the "date modified" value (a file system attribute shown by default by Windows Explorer as the file date) to the "date picture taken" from the EXIF data in a JPG file (metadata stored in the file itself), usually recorded by a digital camera. Easily handles as many files as you can highlight, drag, and drop. This is a clean, small program that requires no installation. Click on the EXE file's icon, and a small window appears. Drag and drop JPG files onto this window, and their "date modified" dates are immediately replaced with the EXIF "date picture taken". This has three main uses (for me, anyway). First, if I edit, crop, or otherwise change an image, most programs change the "date modified" date. This program resets it so that the modified image still appears in chronological order in which it was shot (not edited) if you sort by the default file date in Explorer. Second, if the camera's date/time was wrong (say, I flew to Australia and did not reset the camera's clock-calendar), I can easily adjust the EXIF "picture taken" date of a whole directory of files using EXIF Date Changer (another simple, clean, free download), then use JPGDateChanger to make the "date modified" match. This eliminates headaches in coordinating pictures taken with different cameras, by different people, matching pictures to schedules of days and events, etc. Finally, if I make panoramas or montages from multiple images (I use Hugin for this, a powerful public domain program that takes a while to master), the montages have no "date picture taken" in the EXIF data at all. I use MetaEditor (still another free download) to create and set an EXIF.Photo.DateTimeOriginal value to the date when the images were photographed. Then I use JPGDateChanger to set the "date modified" file system date to match, so my panoramas sort in chronological order with the original images shot before and after them, rather than sorting to after my trip, when I stitched the panoramas together.

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