I thought including city, state, and country in the filename was sufficient for my needs.
Here’s an example of my “perfect” filename for photos:Ģ0200822-1845-000-philadelphia_pa_us-xt3.jpg Now, since multiple photos could’ve been taken at roughly the same time, with the same camera, and at the same location, the filename would also need to contain some sort of numerical auto-incremental field. For my purposes, I only needed a small subset of the functionality offered by exiftool (which for some reason I keep misspelling as ‘exitfool’…)Īnyway, I needed the filename to contain the timestamp when the photo was originally taken, the camera model (as short as possible – just enough for me to identify the equipment I used), and the location where the photo was taken (provided the camera supported geotagging). The exiftool by Phil Harvey has been described as the Swiss Army knife for file metadata manipulation and it certainly is that. It would’ve been nice if the filename contained some useful information like date, camera model, maybe even location.
Recently I exported a whole bunch of files from Lightroom to a NAS share and filenames like 2E570434-67B7E0489CA2-39354-000017CF24DD8ACD.jpg are not very informative.
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