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John Smith

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Nov 15, 2015, 10:53:05 PM11/15/15
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How does one list files by date taken? In Explorer, a photo file is
associated with four dates - date, date created, date modified, date
taken - in which date is same as date taken.

The dir command lists files with the date created property while I want
date/date taken.

Is there a way to list files with date taken? Thanks in advance for any
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foxidrive

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Nov 15, 2015, 11:56:21 PM11/15/15
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Do you mean these?

date created
date modified
date last accessed


This will show you the switches including the timefield switch.

dir /?

Herbert Kleebauer

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Nov 16, 2015, 2:50:12 AM11/16/15
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On 16.11.2015 04:53, John Smith wrote:

> Is there a way to list files with date taken? Thanks in advance for any
> reply.

This information is stored in the EXIF data of the picture. You can also
list the x,y-dimension of the picture or the focus length with explorer,
but "dir" can't access this information.

But because the original names of pictures taken are pretty meaningless,
you can rename the file names to the date/time the picture was taken. Most
picture manipulating software can do this.

If you need a command line tool to do this, take a look at:

http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/


Or for command line image manipulating:

http://www.imagemagick.org/
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