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Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Copy the Extended Data of My Audio Files to an Excel Spreadsheet?

May 31, 2008 May 31, 2008 05/31/08
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! We have quite a large collection of speeches and audio training sessions that are sorted by … well, by nothing. However, all the ID3 tags [the file’s extended data] are up-to-date. Is there a way to extract the ID3 information from these files into an Excel spreadsheet?-- FB(image) (image) (image) Hey, FB. ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Sort Digital Files By the Date Each Picture Was Taken?

May 20, 2008 May 20, 2008 05/20/08
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I read your article on renaming image files so that the pictures could then be sorted in chronological order. When I ran your script, however, it didn’t quite work for me: the files were renamed, but the pictures weren’t sorted the way I had hoped they would be. I think that’s because the pictures were being...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Search a Folder For All the Image Files That Are Not a Specified Height and Width?

May 17, 2008 May 17, 2008 05/17/08
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a folder on a server that contains employee photos, photos that will be used on our organization chart. New photos are taken daily for new staff members, and all the .JPG files are put into this folder. Because the photos are often different sizes, I would like to write a script that checks the folder for ...

How Can I Add the Date a Picture Was Taken to the File Names of My Digital Photos?

August 4, 2007 Aug 4, 2007 08/4/07
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I rename all the .JPG files in a folder so that the date the picture was taken is included in the file name?-- NH (image) (image) (image) Hey, NH. Welcome to Hey, Scripting Guy!, the only daily scripting column on TechNet that is written without the use of steroids, amphetamines, human growth hormone, or...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Get the “Date Picture Taken” Property From a .JPG File?

January 5, 2007 Jan 5, 2007 01/5/07
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I get the Date Picture Taken property from a .JPG file?-- MW (image) (image) Hey, MW. Before we answer your question we should point out that this is likely to be the last Hey, Scripting Guy! column for quite some time to come. Not that we’re going anywhere, mind you. It’s just that on ...