Re:How Retroactive makes Aperture, iPhoto, and iTunes work a...
by mceachen on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @03:17PM
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> scanning photos that are a hundred years old
FWIW I've got a bunch of both scanned images and older JPGs that I inadvertently stripped all metadata from (if you use jpegtran to losslessly rotate, make sure you use `-copy`!), so PhotoStructure infers captured-at time from filenames or enclosing folder names if it's missing from the EXIF headers, and it can extract at least a reasonable year, month, and day from the path.
FWIW I've got a bunch of both scanned images and older JPGs that I inadvertently stripped all metadata from (if you use jpegtran to losslessly rotate, make sure you use `-copy`!), so PhotoStructure infers captured-at time from filenames or enclosing folder names if it's missing from the EXIF headers, and it can extract at least a reasonable year, month, and day from the path.