iphoto: changing date of lots of pictures?

I have about 500 pictures with the wrong year -- I think the camera
had the date set wrong when the pictures were taken. I would like
to fix this. So:

Is there a good way to change the year? (The slow way in iPhoto is to
select "Organize", make sure the little info panel on the lower left
is open, and then select each picture and alter the "Date" text. I
don't want to have to do this 500 times, though.)

Alternatively, but not quite as good, I could change the date to the
"Imported Date". (If I do "Show Photo Info", the "Original Date",
"Digitized Date", and "Modified" all have the wrong year, but the date
imported shows the right year, and more or less the right date.) How
can I do that?

Alternatively, but only about as good as the last option, if I could
set the date that iPhoto sorts by to the "Created" date given by the
finder or the shell, that would be okay, since this date ought to be
the same as the date that it was imported into iPhoto. How can I do
that? (Or ideally, leave the current day and month, but change the
year to the year the file was created.)

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J. H. Palmieri
palmieri.TakeThisOut@member.ams.org

In article <m2r8411cyb.fsf.TakeThisOut@member.ams.org>,
palmieri.TakeThisOut@member.ams.org (J. H. Palmieri) wrote:

 > I have about 500 pictures with the wrong year -- I think the camera
 > had the date set wrong when the pictures were taken. I would like
 > to fix this. So:
 >
 > Is there a good way to change the year? (The slow way in iPhoto is to
 > select "Organize", make sure the little info panel on the lower left
 > is open, and then select each picture and alter the "Date" text. I
 > don't want to have to do this 500 times, though.)
 >
 > Alternatively, but not quite as good, I could change the date to the
 > "Imported Date". (If I do "Show Photo Info", the "Original Date",
 > "Digitized Date", and "Modified" all have the wrong year, but the date
 > imported shows the right year, and more or less the right date.) How
 > can I do that?
 >
 > Alternatively, but only about as good as the last option, if I could
 > set the date that iPhoto sorts by to the "Created" date given by the
 > finder or the shell, that would be okay, since this date ought to be
 > the same as the date that it was imported into iPhoto. How can I do
 > that? (Or ideally, leave the current day and month, but change the
 > year to the year the file was created.)

You might have a look at the freeware application, PhotoInfo, available
via VersionTracker.

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Tom Stiller

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