Problem with picture dates in visualization

[kikko]

Hi guys, I'm experiencing a problem with picture database.
My pictures are EXIF/JPEG created with a digital camera: the date attribute of the file is obviously the date in wich the files itself have been copied in the actual position in the file system, NOT the "Picture Taken Date".
Picture taken date is written in the file, and it is displyed by the Window Explorer correctly: is it possible to import this date in the database, instead of the creation date of the file, that is less significant?

[jowaldo]

No way that I know of to do that automatically on import. Manually (which is useless) entering is the only way I know of.

Maybe sometime steven could add this as an option.

[kikko]

thnx!

[ThE ScReW]

Hi guys, I'm experiencing a problem with picture database.
My pictures are EXIF/JPEG created with a digital camera: the date attribute of the file is obviously the date in wich the files itself have been copied in the actual position in the file system, NOT the "Picture Taken Date".
Picture taken date is written in the file, and it is displyed by the Window Explorer correctly: is it possible to import this date in the database, instead of the creation date of the file, that is less significant?

I noticed that also

[kikko]

The only workaround I've found is to preprocess my pictures with utility like "AttributeMagic Pro" which can replace the attribute Date of the files with the "Date Taken" attribute of the JPEG/EXIFF format.

The only drawback of this solution is that this program is shareware, and the trial version is limited to operate on 20 files at a time, and I've hundreds of photos...sigh!