A new version of SetEXIFData , my GUI for exiftool by Phil Harvey , is now available:

v7.8
(09 Juni 2019)

New:
- Added a '%-d', '%-s' and '%-t' as placeholders when renaming files. The '-' indicates that dates and times will be formatted with a minus-sign: YYYY-MM-DD and HH-MM[-SS].

Changes:
- The preset 'Artist' does no longer save nor read the camera-data to its presets. Use the new preset-menu on the Camera-tab for that.

Fixes:
- Fixed the usage of the placeholders while renaming files. The placehodler %s and %t sometimes read incorrect date/time data and so could have messed up your new file names.
- Fixed the usage of the checkboxes with the dates. DateTimeOriginal is not modified anymore when 'Set the EXIF Create Dates/Times...' is unchecked. When 'Set the EXIF Create Dates/Times...' is unchecked and 'Set the File Creat Date/Time...' is checked, and you specified a static interval, the interval is added to the EXIF date and then used to modify the Finder's dates.

A new version of SetEXIFData , my GUI for exiftool by Phil Harvey , is now available:

v7.7
(10 May 2019)

New:
- Added a 'Save as set...' popup menu to the 'Camera'-section to just save your camera-details.

Note : if you used the Artist-preset to also save camera-settings, you should now transfer the camera-settings to this new Camera-presets possibility. In v7.8, which will for this reason be forcibly released on May 31, the Camera-settings will be removed from the Artist-presets.

Changes:
- Changed the text 'Image(s)' in Notifications into 'File(s)', since also movies can be processed.
- Changed the text 'Drag images ...' in the main window into 'Drag images and/or movies ...'.
- 'Autofill' checkbox for 'Caption/Description' now omits the file extension from the file name.

Fix:
- Fixed the display of an ampersand (&) in set-names: a saved set with a name like 'You & me' was shown as 'You  me' in a popup-menu.

A new version of SetEXIFData , my GUI for exiftool by Phil Harvey , is now available:

v7.6
(07 Apr 2019)

New:
- Added writing of video tags ContentCreateDate and CreationDate. This will succeed when Exiftool can write these tags.

A new version of SetEXIFData , my GUI for exiftool by Phil Harvey , is now available:

v7.5
(04 Apr 2019)

New:
- Added reading the date/time from ContentCreateDate or MediaCreateDate to the 'EXIF date fields search order' preference setting. Remember that the first matching EXIF date it finds, top-down, will be used.

A new version of SetEXIFData , my GUI for exiftool by Phil Harvey , is now available:

v7.4
(26 Feb 2019)

Fixed:
- Adding or subtracting days did not always work.

A new version of SetEXIFData , my GUI for exiftool by Phil Harvey , is now available:

v7.3
(25 Feb 2019)

Updates:
- Removed the 500 to 700-files limit. Processing of +1000 files at once is now possible.
- Replaced Growl-support and error-messages via sheet windows with standard mac OS Notfications.
- Each section a file goes through, will be separately notified via Notification Center : processing EXIF Data, renaming files, setting Finder dates.
- Increased the maximum of the number of days you can add or subtract to -999 and +999.

A new version of SetEXIFData , my GUI for exiftool by Phil Harvey , is now available:

v7.2
(21 Dec 2018)

Fixes:
- The problem with the missing last characters when displaying EXIF data has been resolved.
- AFAICT, the problems with path- and file-names with special characters on non-Mac disks (FAT, exFAT and NTFS) have been fixed.

A new version of SetEXIFData , my GUI for exiftool by Phil Harvey , is now available:

v7.1
(12 Sep 2018)

Changes:

- The %y option in 'Retrieve Date/Time from file name' has changed.

• %Y (uppercase) reads max 4 digits.
• %y (lowercase) reads max 2 digits.

Remember: SetEXIFData does not know what is a year or month or... it just reads digits up to the maximum for the current attribute or the first non-digit.

Example 1: 80-09-12 -> %Y will read 80 and add 1900 = 1980
Example 2: 80-09-12 -> %y will read 80 and add 1900 = 1980

Example 3: 1980-09-12 -> %Y will read 1980
Example 4: 1980-09-12 -> %y will read 19 and add 2000 = 2019 and because the next two digits are treated as the month, 80, a completely wrong date will be generated.

Example 5: 800912 -> %Y will read 8009 and because the month will be 12 and the day therefore 0, it will generate a completely wrong date.
Example 6: 800912 -> %y will read 80 and add 1900 = 1980

Example 7: 19800912 -> %Y will read 1980
Example 8: 19800912 -> %y will read 19 and add 2000 = 2019 and because the next two digits are treated as the month, 80, a completely wrong date will be generated.

- The Finder's Date Created and Date Modified, when checked, will not be touched when images have dates from 1969 or before.

Photo and manipulation by me, background artwork from some clip-art library, borders made with ImageFramer.