App: JPEG Photo File Date
Developer: Marcel Bresink Software-Systeme
Genres: Utilities, Photo & Video

Did you lose the file creation or modification times of JPEG photo files in the past? So you can no longer use the macOS Finder as a simple tool to sort photos by date, or to quickly estimate when a photo was taken? This is a common problem, often caused by errors in preview applications or cloud synchronization.

The small app JPEG Photo File Date comes to help here: It can read the metadata of a JPEG photo file when the picture was taken and fix the file settings for “date created” or “date last modified” accordingly. Even large amounts of pictures, such as a folder hierarchy with several tens of thousands of photos, can be processed quickly without any problems.

The app ensures that the contents of the files are never touched. Only the time fields in the folders are changed. If desired, dry runs are also possible where no changes are made at all, but only an analysis of which time specifications are incorrect and could be fixed.

Release notes:
- Added new feature to fix the date specifications of photo folders additionally after the app has repaired all date fields for image files in a certain folder and that folder does not hold any other data.
- Added new dialog to stop a running operation when executing a bulk job on several thousand image files. The user interface of the app will now always remain responsive even for jobs that take a long time to complete.
- Added new guidance for cases where a user instructs the app to scan folders which cannot be modified or where privacy-protected resources could be accessed.
- Removing entries from a job table for which a specific sort order had been specified is now significantly faster.
- User guidance has been changed in cases when scanning image folders which contain JPEG files but not JPEG photos with recording dates which could be processed. This avoids confusing situations when an empty result is returned.