Searching files by date

[greatvovan]

I need to scan the entire photo library, extract the original date from EXIF and find photographs by a specific date. Is XnView MP capable of doing that?

[xnview]

you would like to search files by specific EXIF date?

[michel038]

My own way :

Some years ago, I organized my photos by date.
( Using Tools > Import and sort > subfolders yyyy-MM-dd ... etc)

Now, I can "search" , using the catalog for quick results, with "path containing -08-" when I look for holidays on August, any year

[greatvovan]

Thanks, but the main thing for me is to keep organization of files as is. I want only to find photos in their original locations.

you would like to search files by specific EXIF date?

Yes, exactly.

[xnview]

you would like to search files by specific EXIF date?

Yes, exactly.

With Tools>Search, you can do that

[greatvovan]

This works great! However I cannot find EXIF data in HEIC files. The corresponding tab is simply missing for HEIC files, featuring only ExifTool, that has the corresponding fields named differently. HEIC files are just not searchable using Exif:TakeDate expression. The same applies to MOV videos. Is there a way to make it working?

[xnview]

This works great! However I cannot find EXIF data in HEIC files. The corresponding tab is simply missing for HEIC files, featuring only ExifTool, that has the corresponding fields named differently. HEIC files are just not searchable using Exif:TakeDate expression. The same applies to MOV videos. Is there a way to make it working?

Windows?

[greatvovan]

Sorry, are you asking about my OS?

I use Mac, I can run Windows in a virtual machine, but I would prefer to minimize that...

I see that the Windows version has that functionality. Is there any particular difficulty implementing that in the Mac version?

[xnview]

next version will get EXIF metadata for HEIC on Mac