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hhost05
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July 1, 2017
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Batch change date by 1 year

  • July 1, 2017
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I know you can off set the time of a batch of photos by a certain number of hours (+8hrs). But I need to do this for years (e.g. keep the time and date, but change the year from 2015 to 2017). I need to do this for a few thousand photos. Is there any way I can automate it?

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    Correct answer johnrellis

    To build on F. McLion's reply, this article explains in detail how Edit Capture Time can do what you want: https://www.lightroomqueen.com/articles-page/time-camera-incorrect-change-capture-time/

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    F. McLion
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    F. McLionCommunity Expert
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    July 1, 2017

    I never tried, however, you can do this with the same tool in LR you use for the hours offset.

    Lr will keep the offset from the most selected to the other selected images and will correct accordingly.

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    johnrellis
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    July 1, 2017

    To build on F. McLion's reply, this article explains in detail how Edit Capture Time can do what you want: https://www.lightroomqueen.com/articles-page/time-camera-incorrect-change-capture-time/

    Curt Wrigley
    Curt Wrigley
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    June 24, 2018

    Unfortunately, there is still not a way to change the date on a batch of photos and not have the time reference ripple from the "most selected" photo to the others.   This is a disaster if you try to change the date on  a batch of photos all taken the same day but scanned in dozens of different dates/times.

    I archive a lot of images from scanning and have to use exiftool to change the dates because lightroom can not do it unless you do one at a time.  All the other metadata LR does fine, but not create dates.

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