Problem With Keeping Track Of Dates On Videos/Photos

[Guest]

Hey guys, I have an issue here, and it has been something that I haven't paid much attention to until now where it is bugging me. Whenever I try to find out the real creation dates of photos/videos (a.k.a when they were taken), there are two different dates, one where the video/photo was created on the filesystem and the other when it was actually taken. I get confused by the Date Modified and Accessed because they are not the real dates, but instead are dates on the filesystem. So therefore I always have to use exiftool to show the real creation dates on the photos/videos and I have to manually rename my video/photo files with datestamps like this e.g. (Youtube Test Video [7-27-16}.mp4) on it which is extremely time consuming since I drag in lots of videos very often onto my desktop. Is there a much easier and less time consuming way to do this? If I'm preserving memories from videos and photos, I do not want to find out years later where the date that these were taken were absolutely wrong.

 

[hang-the-9]

Use a program like Picasa to import your videos, it has an option to place them in folders based on date the photo was taken.

 

[Guest]

Use a program like Picasa to import your videos, it has an option to place them in folders based on date the photo was taken.

Are there any other programs or options I could use? Picasa doesn't exist now so it's called Google Photos.

 

[hang-the-9]

Use a program like Picasa to import your videos, it has an option to place them in folders based on date the photo was taken.

Are there any other programs or options I could use? Picasa doesn't exist now so it's called Google Photos.

You can download that, it should import things the same way.

 

[Alabalcho]

Windows explorer (when switched into "Details" view) has an option to sort / show "Data Taken" field, in addition to modified / accessed.

There are plenty of other programs to use, I have fallen recently in "love" with this app.

THe problem with Picasa is not that you can't download it, but that Google has changed / discontinued the Google Maps' API which Picasa used to geotag the photos.

 

[Guest]

Windows explorer (when switched into "Details" view) has an option to sort / show "Data Taken" field, in addition to modified / accessed.

There are plenty of other programs to use, I have fallen recently in "love" with this app.

THe problem with Picasa is not that you can't download it, but that Google has changed / discontinued the Google Maps' API which Picasa used to geotag the photos.

Other programs like what? What type of software am I looking for for my purpose here? Photo Manager software?

 

[Alabalcho]

Other programs like what? What type of software am I looking for for my purpose here? Photo Manager software?

That would be a good search query.