How can I sort image files by Exif meta data?

After travelling in Thailand I called into a Internet cafe and they
burned a CD from the data on my 512 Mb CF card. The problem is that
when doing so they took all the files and have apparently randomly
renumbered them all and they are hoplessly out of order.

I would like to be able to sort them by there creation time and date
as disclosed by the EXIF meta data which is intact but don't know how
to do it. All the files on the CD bear the same date [the date of
creation of the Cd] and only the time of the actual burn of each file
varies. They appear t o have been shot on the same date whereas they
were shot over a few days.

Is there any programme that can sort by the meta data date and time so
I can get them back in order? I have looked at Irfanview and Thumbs
plus but they seem to sort by file crteation data rather than image
creation date and time.

I would appreciate some help on this one.

Thanks


weary

 

There are a number of freeware programs that can rename files using
EXIF information. Try these:

The rename: http://www.herve-thouzard.com/therenamea.phtml

Rename master: http://jackass.arsware.org/rm.php (can also rename
based on MP3 ID tags)

Flexible renamer:
http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA014830/english/FlexRena/

JPegData: http://www.djernaes.dk/martin/jpeginfo.html

There are also shareware tools, but if all you want to do is rename,
the above should be sufficient.

Terry

 

I use open-source "PicL" from www.sf.net, very easy and straightforward
to rename files to the exif date-time. Also tried therename, but it
had too many options, too much time-consuming.

Ronny

 

There are a number of freeware programs that can rename files using

If you don't want to rename the files, you can use EXIFutils (command line
utilities) to set the "Last Modified" date of each JPG to the date/time the
image was taken. Then, you can sort by "Last Modified" date.

Available from http://www.hugsan.com/EXIFutils

Hugh

 

Similar functionality is available in PicL, in an easy to use
windows interface (any platform)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/picl/

Ronny