Advanced Date Manipulation
Incrementing Dates Using a Sort Order
Give a series of files dates that start at a chosen moment and increase by a fixed interval in the order you choose, so scanned photos without EXIF data sort correctly in Apple Photos or Lightroom.
There are occasions where you want to set the file dates of a series of files starting from a specific date and steadily increasing from there in constant increments.
A specific example is when you have image files without content creation meta-data, but where you know both the approximate time and the sequence in which they were taken. This is a common scenario especially when you want to import scanned image files into an image management system such as Apple’s Photos or Adobe’s Lightroom.
A Better Finder Attributes enables you to do this:
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select
Advanced date manipulationfrom theAction:popup menu. -
select
Specific Datefrom theUse:popup menu. -
select
Increment by sort orderfrom theChange:popup menu.
You can then adjust the sort order and the interval to be used by adjusting the First:
and Then: popup menus, and the Hours, Minutes, Seconds, Days, Months & Years input
fields. The file list previews the resulting date for every file in the chosen order, so adjust the
sort order until the sequence is right, then click Perform Changes.
To write the result into the photos themselves rather than only into the file dates, choose the
image and movie destination fields below the Overwrite: checkboxes; see
setting the shooting date.