Write EXIF based on Filename?

Feb 19, 2001
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I notice there's a lot of tools out there that rename files based on EXIF, but I'm looking to do the opposite. In this case, I have a bunch of files, Android screenshots and Whatsapp photos to be exact that have a filename with the timestamp but no EXIF information.

Makes sense. The phone then uses date created/modified to properly categorize them in the gallery. However, when I transfer to a new phone, the date created are all reset to Jan 1, 1970. I figure if I write EXIF information to it, at least the gallery will sort them properly.

Any way to do that using filenames? The funny thing is tag & rename for MP3s can write IDv3 tags based on file name or rename based on IDv3 tags. I hope something like that for photos exists....
 

bigi

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Aug 8, 2001
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Try faststone image viewer. Might be able to rename with your specified variables from file.