Hi, I use the OneDrive iOS App to copy all my phone's photos and videos to OneDrive, but it rarely does this in a timely fashion. I'm keen to have all the files in Windows show the correct time in the 'date modified' field. I can do this using the Actions, Change Dates [Modified <= Picture Date}, but this does not work for videos (.mov) or screen grabs (.png). The filename is copied intact, so could be used instead, perhaps with a regex command, but I can't figure out how to make this happen. example below (un-corrected). Any ideas on how this could be done? TIA. (Yes, this is something MS should fix...)
Name..........................Extension Size.......Attributes.........Modified
20250909_082955774_iOS.jpg---jpg 2,486,349 ---A-------- 13/09/2025 22:03:41
updating photo 'date modified'
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Re: updating photo 'date modified'
for video you need "media date" not date taken, see here for details:
www.zabkat.com/blog/touch-jpg-date-taken.htm
i don't think PNG store "picture date" but if it is in the file name you can pick it up using CHANGE DATES menu command (use filename as date source)
www.zabkat.com/blog/touch-jpg-date-taken.htm
i don't think PNG store "picture date" but if it is in the file name you can pick it up using CHANGE DATES menu command (use filename as date source)
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Re: updating photo 'date modified'
That's brilliant - it all works, thank you for getting back so quickly. I can use the "set equal to (filename) Name(S) on all the files. I don't care about the DST difference.