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Hello,

I am using FreeCommander's multi rename to add [exif_taken] in front of the names of my pictures. FreeCommander is extremely flexible.

Unless I am mistaken, latest 900 version still works with CR2 files, but not with the new Canon CR3 file format. This is very penalizing.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Jean-Pierre
Lifetime donnor

"Picture - EXIF" in multi rename is primary for jpg files and may not work with other files.
"exiftool" should work with CR2 and CR3 - use 903 release.

Thanks for the quick reply.

This is very unfortunate. "Picture - EXIF" is working very well with CR2 files. I have trouble finding how to use ExifTool to add [Exif_Taken] in the file name.

Thanks in any case

Jean-Pierre

I had a further look a your help file and understand better your answer : you provide acces to Exif Data through ExifTool. So there should be a way to achieve what I need, through use of this tool. Great.

However, I still have an issue.

I installed version 903. I installed ExifTool (latest version) and made a link to it through Tools > Settings > View > Viewer > ViewerSetings then Tab Metadata/Exif where I put the link C:\Program Files\ExifTool\exiftool(-k).exe and checked "Use ExifTool". I closed the settings and reopened, to ckekk that everything is OK.


Then, I tried MultiRename vith the ExifTool Tag {exift_DateTimeOriginal].

FreeCommander XE got stuck (no activity see in task Manager) and I had to kill it. When I restart, the viewer settings are lost.

I hope you can help.
Thanks in advance.
Jean-Pierre

Works fine for me in FC XE 903 32-bit with exiftool.exe version 12.73

Use exiftool.exe for showing metadata/exif is Unchecked

Tried MultiRename 5 jpg files with the ExifTool Tag [exift_DateTimeOriginal].

It feels like when you first start the MultiRename process - everything works very slow. If you run it again, it works many times faster.

Tested with exiftool.exe versions 12.65 and 12.73 (current)

Thanks Timon.
You led me to review my installation. This is the first time that I use Exiftool. And read again installation instructions.
I had not removed the (-k) in the file name.
Now it seems working fine and fast enough.
Thanks to Marek and to you
Jean-Pierre

Note: 64 bits version. It seem that leaving « use exiftool » checked or unchecked has no impact.

For me the (-k) in the file name does not affect the result at all.

My exiftool path: %FcSrcPath%\plugins\ExifTool\exiftool(-k).exe

Thanks again for all your support.

Switching to exiftool tags helps me also for video file.

In case, it may help others, I now use the following tags to rename my multimedia files :
for JPG : [exif_taken]
for MOV (iPhone) : [exift_CreationDate]
for MP4 (camera) : [exift_DateTimeOriginal]
for CR3 : [exift_DateTimeOriginal]

As I have not found a solution to apply TimeStamp format to ExifTool tags, I use a regular expression in the Search/Replace Field to normalize format of these tags.