Importing photos into taken date?

[Jobos]

Hi,

At home I'm running win10 home and having trouble importing photos so I thought I'll ask here.

 

So with win 7 I could have photos on a memory stick or sd card which I imported using explorer and this imported fine making a folder for each different taken date. So if I had taken 3 photos on different days say 1/3/2018, 2/3/2018 and 3/3/2018 and imported, explorer would make 3 folders in pictures each with the different date.

 

Now with win10 I can't see that option but the photo app can import and at first it looked like it worked showing the photos in the correct date on the timeline but on looking in the pictures folder the app is storing the photos in a folder of the import date.

 

So to summarize, how do I import photos and have them stored in a folder named after the taken date?

[Arthur]

I'm not sure if it helps, but I've used EXIFTool to do this in the past.

[Jobos]

I'm not sure if it helps, but I've used EXIFTool to do this in the past.

 

Thanks @Arthur I'll take a look. I've got an old win7 laptop knocking around so I could import using that then copy the folder structure across to my laptop but it's a lot of messing about for what seems a simple take but I'll look at EXIFTool first.

[SpuffMonkey]

I'd be interested in any tidy solutions to this as well. I'm still using the import facility on Photo Gallery (!) which does this (ans a lot more) - but after getting a new phone - it seems not to be able to show me thumbnails prior to import - which can be handy.

A solution for the thumbnail thing or an easy to use tool would be much appreciated

[Jobos]

Looked at the EXIFTool last night but it’s unclear how to just extract date taken from the image so imported using win7 instead.

 

While searching for answers I came across this https://github.com/drewnoakes/metadata-extractor-dotnet/blob/master/README.md which may help to build my own program although it’s been 10 years since I did any proper programming.

[Arthur]

Looked at the EXIFTool last night but it’s unclear how to just extract date taken from the image so imported using win7 instead.

The script I linked to in post #2 might help?

[Jobos]

Might do, will have to test with different options.

[SpuffMonkey]

Can you not do it with "Faststone Image Viewer"?

[TwistedHelixis]

I have to really good tools for doing this in a simple GUI, I am out now but will post them both later, they are both free and I have used them for years.

[TwistedHelixis]

These are the tools I use for changing the exif dates in a photo. Both can do batches of photos etc.

 

https://www.relliksoftware.com/exifdatechanger/

 

https://www.advancedrenamer.com/

 

Although I am wondering if this is actually a exif date issue or something else like Windows 10 creating the folder in a different way

[Jobos]

These are the tools I use for changing the exif dates in a photo. Both can do batches of photos etc.

 

https://www.relliksoftware.com/exifdatechanger/

 

https://www.advancedrenamer.com/

 

Although I am wondering if this is actually a exif date issue or something else like Windows 10 creating the folder in a different way

 

Sorry @TwistedHelixis I was looking for a tool that would import into a folder based on photo taken date like win7 used to do.

 

I’m on holiday this week and purposely left my laptop at home so unable to test anything but thanks anyway.