Date Picture Taken before 1980

[Guest]

I am scanning in a lot of old photos, many of which are before 1980. I have
changed the attributes on these photos to show that they were modified and
the "date picture taken" are just that. Windows XP refuses to show these in
its directories. It just comes up blank. My hard drives are all formatted
NTFS which allows for dates going back to 1600. Is there anything I can do
to get this to show?

 

[John Inzer]

I am scanning in a lot of old photos, many of which are
before 1980. I have changed the attributes on these
photos to show that they were modified and the "date
picture taken" are just that. Windows XP refuses to show
these in its directories. It just comes up blank. My
hard drives are all formatted NTFS which allows for dates
going back to 1600. Is there anything I can do to get
this to show?

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I tried batch changing the dates on several
sample images using Exifer and the Advanced
Summary of a JPEG will not show a date
pre-1980.

Exifer For Windows
http://tinyurl.com/ixso

However...if you use a program like IrfanView
and go to...Image / Information / EXIF button...
you can see the earlier "DateTime Original"
entries.

Download IrfanView
http://www.tucows.com/preview/194967.html
(get the plug-ins too)

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This is not tech support.
I am only a volunteer.....

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you.

Proceed at your own risk.

John Inzer
Picture It! MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
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[John Inzer]

FWIW...Picasa2 recognizes the older dates.
Just right click an image...choose properties
and look at: Camera Date.

Picasa2
http://picasa.google.com/

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*Notice*
This is not tech support.
I am only a volunteer.....

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you.

Proceed at your own risk.

John Inzer
Picture It! MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp