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Need to Rename and Copy from camera to Mac appending the file with Created Date...
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<blockquote data-quote="Jester7677" data-source="post: 671868" data-attributes="member: 42689"><p>While I was able to have Automator:</p><p></p><p>1) copy the files to a temp directory.</p><p>2) rename the files appending a prefix of the create date</p><p>3) move the files to their final destination</p><p></p><p>it's still not an ideal way of managing photos but will do what I needed it to do. I actually broke down and used ACDSee on my PC to clean up the 8 years of mess that I had. In 1.5 hrs I now have all files renamed as <date><time>.jpg, and sorted into folders by year. The nice thing is that ACDSee is able to use the EXIF Metadata for the "date", not just the modified date on the operating system, which in many cases is not the true creation date. Too bad there are no functions in Automator to access the EXIF data (at least not that I can see).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jester7677, post: 671868, member: 42689"] While I was able to have Automator: 1) copy the files to a temp directory. 2) rename the files appending a prefix of the create date 3) move the files to their final destination it's still not an ideal way of managing photos but will do what I needed it to do. I actually broke down and used ACDSee on my PC to clean up the 8 years of mess that I had. In 1.5 hrs I now have all files renamed as <date><time>.jpg, and sorted into folders by year. The nice thing is that ACDSee is able to use the EXIF Metadata for the "date", not just the modified date on the operating system, which in many cases is not the true creation date. Too bad there are no functions in Automator to access the EXIF data (at least not that I can see). [/QUOTE]
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