After you download it in your machine, modify the DIR variable and the EXIFTOOL_PATH accordingly. Point 6th to 8th are not mandatory but recommended.)įirst of all, download the script and the dir.txt. You have to enable SSH for this, then you can follow this official tutorial or this thread (be careful to use the last version of ExifTool and in the 3rd point remove only the Image-ExifTool-XX.XX.tar.gz. Install ExifTool in your Synology NAS.

Install Perl from Synology Package Center.Then it standardize their name with the format IMG/VID_YYYYMMDD.ext plus HHmmSS in the second match case, plus a counter at the end '-X.ext' if more then one media has the same name. If it finds matches, it inserts the 'Create Date' exif data to them, based on their name. It scans the specified folder for photos with this format name: which have not a real creation date info (in their exif data), except for their name. In fact, this workaround doesn't effect at all photos taken with the camera or screenshots, but only photos coming from whatsapp, instagram, telegram. This is not a Synology problem, because basically social media erase not all but most of them. In some cases, when uploading photos directly from android smartphones to Synology NAS, some crucial exif data are missing.

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