Hi folks,

I recently revived a thread about a script that deletes files that were created outside of a certain time window (ie before 8am and after 6pm).

I think the problem I'm having is that this script is using the "date created" criteria but the "date created" corresponds to the date that I created a copy of the file for processing, not when the picture was actually TAKEN.

Does anyone know how to modify the following code so that it uses either the "date modified" or the "date taken" criteria? I think "date taken" is metadata specific to .jpg's so that might not work in a batch script but there must be a way to use "date modified". All the "date modified" tags on my photos correspond to the time they were taken by the camera.

Thanks a ton!

Jeremy

Code: [Select]echo off
:: (modified) original code by Salmon Trout - Oct 2014
:: - deletes files with creation time earlier than 08:00 and after 16:59 (on files from any day)
::

>  "%temp%\fhour.vbs" echo Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
>> "%temp%\fhour.vbs" echo Set f = fso.GetFile(trim(wscript.arguments(0)))
>> "%temp%\fhour.vbs" echo wscript.echo Hour (f.DateCreated)

for %%A in ("c:\folder\*.*") do (
    for /f "delims=" %%B in ('cscript /nologo "%temp%\fhour.vbs" "%%~fA"') do (
        set "action="
        if %%B lss 8  set action=Delete
        if %%B geq 17 set action=Delete
        if /i not "%%~fA"=="%~f0" if defined action echo deleting "%%~fA" & del "%%~fA"
    )
)
pausePerhasp tis is of some help...
https://www.ocregister.com/2010/07/21/how-to-determine-when-a-photo-was-shot/
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Q. I have some old pictures, mostly JPGs, that I have copied to my wife’s PC, and the dates for the files are different on her PC than on mine. Why is that and which ones are correct? My PC is running Windows XP, and hers has Windows 7.

A. JPGs are the most common file type used by digital cameras. When we transfer the files from our cameras to our PC, either by using a card reader or by connecting the camera to our PC with a USB cable, we end up with a bunch of these JPGs. After a period of time or after they have been edited, it’s frequently difficult to determine exactly when the pictures were taken.

For some reason the engineers at Microsoft have not been consistent in how dates for JPG files are reported. The dates for other files such as Microsoft Word documents are handled more consistently. Pictures such as JPGs and other image formats are a special case since the digital cameras that we use today actually store the date that a picture was taken as part of the picture or JPG file.

There are several ways to transfer the pictures to a PC to remind us when they were shot, such as placing the date taken in the name of the folder used to house the files. Of course, that doesn’t help those of us who didn’t do this. But there are ways to determine when the pictures were taken. Before we get to some of these ways, let’s discuss how Microsoft Windows handles JPG file dates.