I'm working on a documentary that consists of audio and video files, but since I have ADHD, I've lost track of everything. I need a way to gather all available date information for about 1000 files stored on an external SSD. I have various formats including WAV, M4A, and MP4, stored in folders with inconsistent naming conventions. Some files have clear creation dates, others have media creation dates, and some just take the date of the parent folder. The goal is to organize these files and understand what I still need to download from my backups in OneDrive and Google Photos. Can anyone share a non-destructive command or script that lists the file location, folder (if applicable), file name, and all available date fields along with any other useful metadata?
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You might want to check out Get-MediaInfo from GitHub. It’s pretty handy for this kind of task. Here’s an example report that gives you a quick look at the date information you might find. It should help you get all the relevant date attributes together!
Thanks for the tip! Does that include all kinds of dates like accessed, created, media created, etc.?