"touch dates" "sync-touch"

[rnmerchant]

What does 'touch dates' and 'sync-touch' mean?

I am not familiar with how those terms are used (though they appear enough that it seems like I could have known).

Can I use them to read EXIF 'picture taken' dates?

I've a bunch of image files wich I modified with a program that stripped all the EXIF data. I do of course still have the original files. I'd like to restore the EXIF date info to the new files - somehow, I guess, copying it from the original file and writing it to the new file. Is that possible?

There are some complicated command-line utilites available to do that but they are all Greek to me! My language skills are not that good.

Richard

[nikos]

if the damaged photos still have the exif dates, you can repair them using ACTIONS > CHANGE DATES menu command (see the documentation F1)
otherwise you can use sync-touch command but that only works inside a single pair of folders