Sorting and using File creation dates
I have a number of photos from different cameras and want to sort them in the sequence that they were taken ie Creation date and time. I only get Modified as an option.
Also, I edit my photos using Shotwell. Once a change is made to a photo I can no longer see the Creation date.
In summary the only date that I am ever interested in is the Creation Date and Time.
A solution may be to rename all the files including the date and time in the name!? But how??
It seems as though I found the solution thanks to the link and hints to use Shotwell. I previously edited the files by opening the file using Shotwell from "files", editing and "saving as", did not show original info. By rather viewing my pictures in Shotwell, it shows the folders that I have sorted the pics into, sorted by date and time, therefore showing the pictures taken by different cameras in chronological order. Editing and "exporting" the file retains the original info.
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Another solution would be to use imagemagick
You can install it with sudo apt install imagemagick, if it's not already installed on your system.
Then use the command identify -verbose path/to/your/image to get the metadata of your image.
You can also grep the result since you are only interested in the creation date and time. For example with identify -verbose image.png | grep "date:create".
This way you'll get only the information you're interested in and can eventually reuse it in a script to rename your images, if that's what you want.
1You don't say exactly which distro you are using. I am on 21.04 Xubuntu, so I will give you the answer here. I use Nemo as the file manager. With this I can right click in the header section, say just to the right of the "Name" field. This gives me a drop down of the columns I can display. There I see "Date Created".
Does that work for you?
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