Batch Change Date/Time - same time to full batch, not offset timing?

Is there a way to force Aperture to change the date/time on a batch of photos with ALL images to the same exact date/time?
Right now, I have a bunch of scanned images with the wrong date/time, but of course, scanned at different times (embedded image date/time). When using Aperture 2.1's "Metadata", "Adjust Date and Time..." function, I only have one image with the input desired date/time, then all the other scans have a different date/time based on the timing offset difference from the scanning, which over the course of several scans changes by several days quickly.
Does anyone know of a work around? I'd hate to manually adjust hundreds/thousands of image metadata by hand when Aperture should do this easily.
Thanks!!

Correct, I am referring to the EXIF data. Aperture can change this data using the aforementioned "Metadata", "Adjust Date and Time..." feature, it's only that Aperture can't (as far as I can tell) set a batch of photo to the exact date and time among the entire batch.
Perhaps I'll be able to find or create an Apple Script to do this outside of Aperture?
It's a shame though as I can't possibly be the only one with a large scanned collection from years ago I'm trying to archive in proper date order. This would be a great new added feature Apple, if you are also reading this! (I've already submitted the feature request some weeks ago)

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I change the date and or time in the information section. I have iPhoto sort the photos by date.
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I would appreciate any help or suggestions.
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Try using the Photo menu ==> batch change date and time (if the photos either do not have a data and time or they are not in the date time sequence you want or the adjust date and time (if you want to add a constant amount to all photos selected keeping them in the same date/time sequence but with a different date and time - and select the change the original option
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I want to batch change hundreds of images in 1 event (or project) in Aperture 3 to be timed apart by the time designation I set forth on the batch process. I have easily done this in iPhoto 8 by selecting all the photos, ctrl-clicking "batch change" and changing the date to be set for a given time, and adding 1 minute to each photo.
I'm building a book by interleaving 2 events of scanned images by their times. It works great in iPhoto, but I can't process the images like I can in Aperture.
If anyone knows how to batch change dates as in the above procedure, let me know. Thanks.

I've been using ABFR and ABFA from http://www.publicspace.net/index.html to change thousands of images in the Finder that had incorrect time/date stamps and used ABFR to pre-fix the file names with the correct date stamp. You can also setup a batch droplet based on your settings.
It was able to grab the camera date, even though the created/modified dates were wrong and correct things.
May or may not be what you are after, but for batch renaming/adjusting attributes I haven't found anything better.

Batch-change date (time)...

I know you can batch-change the date in iPhoto, and there's the option to add X seconds between each photo, but what I need to do is change the time by XX seconds/hours. Basically, this weekend we had two camera shooting a trip we were on. I thought both cameras were synched (clocks) but one camera was off by 12 hours (it was on AM when should have been PM). So, I need to add 12 hours to each photo for the 1 camera. Is there any way to do this via a batch (ie. not manually going through each of the 150+ photos and setting the time) so when I make an album of shots from both camera, sort by date/time, they synch up.
If there's no way to do this in iPhoto, could anyone suggest another application that could do this before importing into iPhoto?
Thanks,
Kristin.

Rather than start a new topic, I'm going to just refer to this one since it's recent and exactly the issue I was trying to solve. My situation is that I bought a new camera in January and still had 2006 on my mind, so all the pictures I've taken this year are off by a year. I used PhotoInfo to change the EXIF data folder by folder in my iPhoto Library folder (by this I mean I had to batch change every folder in Originals/2007 and Modified/2007). 2 folders didn't take the changes, but that's another issue for a different forum.
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A secondary question is whether iPhoto is really the program I want to use. Most of my major changes I make using Photoshop. Recently after making changes in Photoshop as well as a few minor tweaks in iPhoto (I don't remember which order) when I tried to revert to the original it no longer existed. It reverted to a modified file (modified in PS or iPhoto, don't remember which). Since then I've been making a duplicate in iPhoto and then modify that one in PS as well as iPhoto. However, after making modifications in PS I have to save it as a JPG in order to keep it organized with all my photos in iPhoto. It would be nice to keep a PSD copy filed along side it. Should I be using something else besides iPhoto that handles EXIF information and changes seemlessly as well as JPG and PSD (and probably RAW in the future)?
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I have some code where I copy records from one partition to another partition the table has the
followin partition.
PARTITION BY RANGE (CREATE_DATE)
I would like to change the date to a new value for the destination record but keep the time.
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CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE C0HARPA.mtas_req_feat_copy_part
(p_create_date in DATE, p_create_date1 in DATE)
IS
-- desc mtas.mtas_req_feat;
-- REQUEST_SEQ NUMBER                           NOT NULL,
-- MTAS_SYSTEM VARCHAR2(15 BYTE)                NOT NULL,
-- FEATURE      VARCHAR2(64 BYTE)                NOT NULL,
-- FLAG         VARCHAR2(16 BYTE),
-- CREATE_DATE DATE
TYPE myarray IS TABLE OF mtas.mtas_req_feat%ROWTYPE;
l_data myarray;
myREQUEST_SEQ mtas.mtas_req_feat.request_seq%TYPE;
CURSOR r IS
SELECT * FROM mtas.mtas_req_feat r
WHERE r.create_date >= p_create_date
AND r.create_date < p_create_date + interval '1' day;
l_start number default dbms_utility.get_time;
rows_processed number :=0;
BEGIN
-- To prevent ORA-20000: ORU-10027: buffer overflow, limit of 2000 bytes
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select max(REQUEST_SEQ) into myREQUEST_SEQ from mtas.mtas_req_feat;
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('High Value REQUEST_SEQ is '||myREQUEST_SEQ);
OPEN r;
LOOP
    FETCH r BULK COLLECT INTO l_data LIMIT 10000;
    FOR j IN 1 .. l_data.COUNT
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      myREQUEST_SEQ := myREQUEST_SEQ +1;
      l_data(j).request_seq := myREQUEST_SEQ;
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      rows_processed := rows_processed+1;
    END LOOP;
    FORALL i IN 1..l_data.COUNT
      INSERT INTO c0harpa.mtas_req_feat VALUES l_data(i);
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    EXIT WHEN r%NOTFOUND;
END LOOP;
COMMIT;
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     (round((dbms_utility.get_time-l_start)/100, 2) ||' Seconds...' || rows_processed || ' Rows Processed' );
CLOSE r;
END mtas_req_feat_copy_part;
I am calling like this:
sqlplus / <<EOT >> $LOG 2>&1
set serveroutput on
SET PAGESIZE 0
SET FEEDBACK OFF
SET VERIFY OFF;
set heading off;
set line 200
exec C0HARPA.mtas_request_copy_part ( to_date( '2011-09-01', 'YYYY-MM-DD' ),
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EOTThanks to all who answer

840386 wrote:
I have some code where I copy records from one partition to another partition the table has the
followin partition.
PARTITION BY RANGE (CREATE_DATE)
I would like to change the date to a new value for the destination record but keep the time.
Here is my code, can somebody provide an example of how I can do this
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE C0HARPA.mtas_req_feat_copy_part
(p_create_date in DATE, p_create_date1 in DATE)
IS
-- desc mtas.mtas_req_feat;
-- REQUEST_SEQ NUMBER                           NOT NULL,
-- MTAS_SYSTEM VARCHAR2(15 BYTE)                NOT NULL,
-- FEATURE      VARCHAR2(64 BYTE)                NOT NULL,
-- FLAG         VARCHAR2(16 BYTE),
-- CREATE_DATE DATE
TYPE myarray IS TABLE OF mtas.mtas_req_feat%ROWTYPE;
l_data myarray;
myREQUEST_SEQ mtas.mtas_req_feat.request_seq%TYPE;
CURSOR r IS
SELECT * FROM mtas.mtas_req_feat r
WHERE r.create_date >= p_create_date
AND r.create_date < p_create_date + interval '1' day;
l_start number default dbms_utility.get_time;
rows_processed number :=0;
BEGIN
-- To prevent ORA-20000: ORU-10027: buffer overflow, limit of 2000 bytes
DBMS_OUTPUT.ENABLE (buffer_size => NULL);
select max(REQUEST_SEQ) into myREQUEST_SEQ from mtas.mtas_req_feat;
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('High Value REQUEST_SEQ is '||myREQUEST_SEQ);
OPEN r;
LOOP
FETCH r BULK COLLECT INTO l_data LIMIT 10000;
FOR j IN 1 .. l_data.COUNT
LOOP
l_data(j).create_date := p_create_date1 || (NEED TIME FROM SOURCE RECORD);
myREQUEST_SEQ := myREQUEST_SEQ +1;
l_data(j).request_seq := myREQUEST_SEQ;
INSERT INTO c0harpa.mtas_req_feat VALUES l_data(j);
rows_processed := rows_processed+1;
END LOOP;
FORALL i IN 1..l_data.COUNT
INSERT INTO c0harpa.mtas_req_feat VALUES l_data(i);
COMMIT;
EXIT WHEN r%NOTFOUND;
END LOOP;
COMMIT;
dbms_output.put_line
(round((dbms_utility.get_time-l_start)/100, 2) ||' Seconds...' || rows_processed || ' Rows Processed' );
CLOSE r;
END mtas_req_feat_copy_part;
I am calling like this:
sqlplus / <<EOT >> $LOG 2>&1
set serveroutput on
SET PAGESIZE 0
SET FEEDBACK OFF
SET VERIFY OFF;
set heading off;
set line 200
exec C0HARPA.mtas_request_copy_part ( to_date( '2011-09-01', 'YYYY-MM-DD' ),
to_date( '2011-09-02', 'YYYY-MM-DD' ))
exit;
EOTThanks to all who answersince we don't have your tables or data, we can't run or improve posted code.
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Batch change dates by 3 hours

I have an album with pictures from 2 cameras. One camera's date is off by 3 hours. I would like to add 3 hours to their times and get all the pictures in sync.
When I Select All, and then Batch Change, the option is to add 3 hours between each picture, not add 3 hours to the time on each picture.
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Can batch change (or some other app) change the date of the first pic in an event and then simply adjust ALL other pic dates by the 'change delta' you adjusted the first pic by? I just did a batch change and every pic in the event now has same date/time although the event spans several days. Seems like a 'no brainer' to me for a computer to apply this same delta to all pics - but I'm not a computer guy. Thanks in advance!
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Batch Change Date Only

I would like to change dates on a batch of photos, however when I go to do this, it prompts me to also change the time and gives me the option to add a certain number of minutes between each photo.
This is ridiculous. Very 'un-apple-esque'. I don't WANT to change the time, that is a seperate attribute. I want to change date, and that's it.
How can I do this?
It's as if I went into itunes and tried to change and artist name on a whole album and it also asked me to change the album name. Silly.
How can I change JUST the date of a batch of photos??
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There's a plugin that may do what you want. Check out iPhoto Date Shifter from Joe's iPhoto Applescripts. I haven't used it myself but others here have reported that it works.
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Batch change dates

Hi,
I have some 1000 pictures imported into the Aperture library with the wrong date (year), while taking them my camera was accidentally on 2006.
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My wife imported a bunch of photos into iPhoto directly, but I wanted them in a folder on the hard drive.
I pulled them out of iPhoto into a folder, then deleted the ones in iPhoto so that I could sort them and reimport.
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I checked the Exif data, and it has preserved the correct creation date event though checking "info" on the pictures shows create date the same as modified the same as iPhoto import.
Is there an easy way to batch change an entire folder of pictures to change the Created/Modified dates to match the Created date from the Exif data?
The only other similar posts had answers that reccomend a piece of software that does not seem to actually do this, and one that suggests some sort of confusing script that I don't really understand.
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shootShifter helps to redate and rename complete folders of images based on the EXIF data or Finder dates.
So it will do batches.
I also believe that exporting the Original (File -> Export: Kind Original) will make all of this unnecessary.
I don't like having them only in iPhoto so I organize the originals into folders by choronological event then import them so I have copies outside the iPhoto library to put elsewhere.
You understand that you're using twice the disk space there, right? And that it's quite unnecessary. All iPhoto does is to put them in folders too. Have you looked inside the iPhoto Library ever?
Go to your Pictures Folder and find the iPhoto Library there. Right (or Control-) Click on the icon and select 'Show Package Contents'. A finder window will open with the Library exposed. Your photos are in the Masters folder.
Standard warning: Don't change anything in the iPhoto Library Folder via the Finder or any other application. iPhoto depends on the structure as well as the contents of this folder. Moving things, renaming things,, deleting them or otherwise making changes will prevent iPhoto from working and could even cause you to damage or lose your photos.
Regards
TD

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Is there a way to configure iTunes so that I can make changes in multiple sections, and only sync or apply them when I've made all of them?
For example: I want to changes setting in Music, Apps, and Books. Today, it seems like I have to go to change settings,hit apply, and wait for the iTunes to sync for each one. What I want to do it make changes in all of them, then hit apply/sync and wait for the iTunes to sync all my changes in one swoop.
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