Infonautics File Date Corrector 1.40

You set up your new computer and all imported files on your new hard disk have now a wrong “Date Created”? Or you copied all your vacation photos from your digital camera or your smartphone to your computer and you have discovered that the “Date Created” of all pictures is the date of copying? For many applications it is important that the system displays the original creation and modification dates of the files. In particular what legal documents concerns, the original “Date Created” is of importance. Also when sorting your pictures, the original “Date Taken” is needed in order to document your reportage in the correct time sequence.

File Date Corrector for Windows is able to correct simply and fast the system-provided file dates “Created” and “Modified”, taking into account the correct time zone. For this purpose, File Date Corrector is extracting the necessary information from metadata and file information of various files such as pictures, video, audio, documents (Microsoft Office Documents as well as Open Document Formats like Open Office, Libre Office etc.) and PDFs in order to correct the file date “Created” and restore the original creation date / date taken.
File Date Corrector enables to correct file dates “Created” and “Modified” of complete file directories at once. Before the definitive execution of corrections, a preview with the intended date corrections is displayed.

Directory selection [1. Select Directory]
- Selection of starting directory for the corrections by a tree structure.
- Selection of starting directory by entering the path as a text string.
- Support for connecting and disconnecting network drives.
- Updating the directory view.

Correction Properties [2. Set File Date]
- Listing of sub-directories and/or files with recursive sub-directory listing (Run through subdirectories).
- Set directory recursion depth for subdirectories.

File Date Correctory Run Through Subdirectories
- Sort files/directories by name in NATURAL order (like Windows Explorer).
- Selection of date type: “Created” and/or “Modified”.
- Selection of correction type: “by met information of files” or “by fixed date and time”.
- Selection of the relevant meta information for file date correction of “Created”:
- “Document: Date/Time created”,
- “Image: EXIF Date/Time taken”,
- “Image: IPTC Date/Time created”,
- “Audio: Date recorded”,
- “Video: Date recorded”.
- Selection of the relevant meta information for file date correction of “Modified”:
- “Document: Date/Time modified”,
- “Image: EXIF Date/Time changed “,
- “Image: IPTC Date/Time created” (IPTC has no modified-date),
- “Audio: Date recorded ” (Audio has no modified-date),
- “Video: Date recorded ” (Videos has no modified-date).
- Selection of the preference for EXIF before IPTC or vice versa (for images).

Preview Generation [3. Preview]
- Process files and list fixes found, with date “before correction” and date “after correction”, separately for date “created” and/or date “modified”.
- Show the number of found objects (files).

Apply Corrections [4. Correct now!]
- Apply the proposed corrections effectively.
- The correction status is displayed after the correction:
- corrected (correction was successful),
- read only (no correction applied),
- failed (correction was not successful).
- The button “4. Correct now” is available only if a “Preview” has been created first.
- For the application of the date corrections a full version of the program is needed.

Functions built-in the file list [Search field and context menu]
- Search: Find a string in the file list using the search modes “Search from the beginning” and “Continue searching from the current row”.
- Context menu: Delete selected row (file), open the directory containing the selected object, open/start the selected object, show properties of the selected file or directory. Correct "Date Created" and "Date Modified" with File Date Corrector

Program settings [Menu: Setup]
- Automatic saving of settings when exiting the program.
- Automatic set up of a program shortcut on the desktop.
- Support for connecting and disconnecting network drives.
- Remember last used directory.
- Setting to use daylight saving time retroactively during application of the date corrections:
- “No Daylight Saving Time Consideration”
- “Consider Daylight Saving Time of USA”
- “Consider Daylight Saving Time of EUROPE”.