Picking Out the Most Useful ExifTool MetadataĬategorizing, Combining, Presenting, Storing, and Disposing Renaming Files to Include Folder Name Information If you find better tools or techniques for these tasks, please mention them in the comments. Some users may want to skim the details of those early sections. Later sections are written in a more summary style, on the assumption that users proceeding step-by-step will have learned what they need by that time. Depending on the size and nature of the project, however, and on the user’s skill level and interest in learning how to do this sort of thing, these steps may be helpful.Įarly sections of this post take pains to describe detailed steps in the use of commands and Excel formulas. This post describes the steps that I took to make the names of these JPGs more informative and to sort them as desired. Some of these steps required some work. (For an explanation of metadata, see below.) I wanted to get that information out into the filename so that I could quickly sort files by filename (i.e., without manually inspecting the contents of files, one by one) whenever possible. (Uninformative filenames, stored in folders whose names did provide useful information, could be renamed using something like Bulk Rename Utility.)Įven when filenames were informative, I suspected (and I would find) that these photos probably had much more information in their metadata.
I preferred to be able to sort photos by filename, where possible - doing a search for all files whose names referred to last year’s office picnic, for example. I would have to take a manual look at “Picture 001.jpg,” for instance, to see whether it was a keeper. Unfortunately, their filenames were often very uninformative. It tentatively appeared that some of them would interest me, and some wouldn’t.
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