Sorting iPhone image files -

[Ed Greshko]

On 09/01/15 21:31, Bob Goodwin wrote:
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> I have a number [thousands] of my daughter's iPhone files stored on my server, each one has an "IMG_xxxx" number however they don't seem to have a consistent relationship to date and time, not that we can sse anyway. However it appears that each file does have that information, e.g. datetime=2015:06:30 15:58:38]:
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> [bobg at box10 Ginette]$ file IMG_4823.JPG
> IMG_4823.JPG: JPEG image data, Exif standard: [TIFF image data, big-endian, direntries=10, manufacturer=Apple, model=iPhone 6 Plus, orientation=upper-right, xresolution=154, yresolution=162, resolutionunit=2, datetime=2015:06:30 15:58:38], baseline, precision 8, 3264x2448, frames 3
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> So it seems there probably is either software to sort them or a script that would sort on the date shown by "file."
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> What can I do to accomplish this?
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You could do as Markku suggested or you could go a slightly different route and google "sort files by exif date" which will get you to a few java based tools to give you a GUI to perform the function.

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