Batch Rename based on oldest Date in EXIF, IPTC & File

[xTobix]

Hi,

I would like to make a suggestion for the macros "Batch Rename..." as well as "Change timestamps...".

A) For Batch rename:
Would it be possible to introduce the option into the automated renaming to use the oldest or youngest available time stamp? In addition, if this function is set, enable an option window in which each possible "Date field" can be included or excluded from this evaluation.

Date fields I have in my mind would be:
File -> created, - modified, - accessed;
EXIF - camera - created
EXIF - image- Date taken, Date digitized

IPTC - Origin -Date created, Release Date

B) For Change timestamps:
Same functionality and procedure could be employed for changing the timestamps. In addition, a second option window would be required in which each possible "Date field" can be included or excluded from being modified accordingly.

Many thanks for the tremendous tool and the great work.
Best regards,
Tobi

[xTobix]

Hi,

I know - this is now placed in the wrong subject - but for a start, does anyone have an suggestion how a "workaround" command in the reamer would look like to do the job above?
Any help would be much appreciated.
Tobi

[xnview]

Currenlty not possible but why do you would like such feature?

[JohnFredC]

Sometimes in a project, an image is the "seed" or "initiator" of a sequence of images, all of which are connected in some way (for the user's purposes) to the first image in the series (consider surveillance images, or volcano monitoring, or recording the progress of a painting's restoration... there are many examples).

It can be useful to name all of the files in the series with values from the metadata of the original or initial image, but to do this manually can be tedious if there are large numbers of images.