ColMac9090
Active Member
- Joined
- Jan 25, 2011
- Messages
- 247
- Location
- Edinburgh, Scotland
- Lightroom Experience
- Intermediate
- Lightroom Version
- Classic
- Lightroom Version Number
- Lightroom Classic version: 10.2 [ 202103041821-226a1211 ]
- Operating System
- Windows 10
I have 1000+ documents Family history documents that I have scanned in to my library.
They all have a date in the file name, something like B Cert 1891 07 20 John H Smith.jpg.
Unfortunately others will start with Death, Grave, Gravestone etc, so I cannot use LR's File name sort to view them by their original date (which I know is not the actual capture date).
I am now trying to manually edit the File Created date to match the date in the file name, so that I can sort mainly in LR, & LR web but it is obviously a massive task. Does anyone know of any software that would enable me to automate some part of the process.
I cannot really rename the files to start with the date, as all images are already in my Family History software program with links to the original file names, so that is not really an option.
I suspect Regular Expressions might enable this with the right software. I am even less than a novice in RE, but I could probably learn enough to cope with a bit of help from on-line tutorials if I had the right software.
Would Irfanview deal with this?
They all have a date in the file name, something like B Cert 1891 07 20 John H Smith.jpg.
Unfortunately others will start with Death, Grave, Gravestone etc, so I cannot use LR's File name sort to view them by their original date (which I know is not the actual capture date).
I am now trying to manually edit the File Created date to match the date in the file name, so that I can sort mainly in LR, & LR web but it is obviously a massive task. Does anyone know of any software that would enable me to automate some part of the process.
I cannot really rename the files to start with the date, as all images are already in my Family History software program with links to the original file names, so that is not really an option.
I suspect Regular Expressions might enable this with the right software. I am even less than a novice in RE, but I could probably learn enough to cope with a bit of help from on-line tutorials if I had the right software.
Would Irfanview deal with this?