rajannpatel / exif-date-change.workflow-for-macos

right click any files or folders in the macOS Finder.app to edit the EXIF Date on photos and images

EXIF Date Change.workflow for macOS

Right click file(s) or folder(s) to perform an EXIF Date Change on one, or many files.

POSSIBLY USEFUL: I have also authored an EXIF Date Read.workflow for macOS

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Prerequisites

1. Install homebrew: /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"
2. Install exiftool with homebrew: brew install exiftool
3. Users not running macOS 10.15 Catalina will need to install zsh with homebrew: brew install zsh

Quickstart

1. download and unzip EXIF Date Change.workflow.zip
2. open EXIF Date Change.workflow with the default application: Automator Installer.app
3. right click any folder(s) or file(s) and click Quick Action > EXIF Date Change

Installation

Choose an installation method:

Option A: zsh

unzip =( curl https://github.com/rajannpatel/EXIF-Date-Change.workflow-for-macOS/raw/master/EXIF%20Date%20Change.workflow.zip -L ) && open EXIF\ Date\ Change.workflow

Option B: bash

curl https://github.com/rajannpatel/EXIF-Date-Change.workflow-for-macOS/raw/master/EXIF%20Date%20Change.workflow.zip -L -o workflow.zip
unzip workflow.zip
rm workflow.zip
open EXIF\ Date\ Change.workflow

Once this installation completes you can remove EXIF Date Change.workflow using this command:

rm -rf EXIF\ Date\ Change.workflow

Option C: git

git clone -n [email protected]:rajannpatel/EXIF-Date-Change.workflow-for-macOS.git --depth 1
cd EXIF-Date-Change.workflow-for-macOS
git checkout HEAD "EXIF Date Change.workflow.zip"
unzip "EXIF Date Change.workflow.zip"
open EXIF\ Date\ Change.workflow

Once this installation completes you can remove the EXIF-Date-Change.workflow-for-macOS directory using this command:

cd ..
rm -rf EXIF\ Date\ Change.workflow

Approve the installation

Confirm Installation Succeeded

If you don't see EXIF Date Change in System Preferences > Extensions > Finder just like the screenshot below, you may need to run the open EXIF\ Date\ Change.workflow command again, or double click it to run it.

Usage

Using Finder.app you can right click on any file(s) or folder(s) with images to change the EXIF Date. Your original files will be updated with the new date:

You can press ESC to exit without making any changes. If you enter an incorrect date, you will be provided an error message:

If the date validation step passes, when the date changing task begins, you will get the following notifications:

The notifications panel will retain a history of your edits: