# Organize Your Photos Using exiftool

#### Find all photos without date information
```
$ exiftool -filename -filemodifydate -createdate -r -if '(not $datetimeoriginal) and $filetype eq "JPEG"' .
```
#### Set last created and modified to a specific date

```
$ find . -name \"*.jpg\" | while read filename;
exiftool \"-AllDates=1986:11:05 12:00:00\" \"$filename\";
done
```
Copy of the originals will be created.

Remove ```*.jpg_original``` if everything went fine or add ```-overwrite_original``` parameter.

#### Timeshift

##### by one year

```
$ exiftool "-AllDates+=1:0:0 00:00:00" .
```

#### Rename your files to contain the date and time

they will be suffixed with -N if they have the same date and time

```
$ exiftool '-FileName<DateTimeOriginal' -d "%Y%m%d_%H%M%S%%-c.%%e" *.jpg

$ exiftool '-FileName<DateTimeOriginal' -d "%Y-%m-%d %H%M%S%%-c.%%e" *.jpg
```

#### Copy your photos in a folder structure organised by datetime</h4>

```
exiftool '-Directory<CreateDate' -d ~/Dropbox/Photos/%Y/%y%m -r .
```