One issue I faced in the process of migrating from Picasa to Adobe Lightroom is that Picasa stores event dates in .picasa.ini files. I had spent many hours setting correct dates in my events (folders) and wanted to import them. So I wrote the following C# script (should work for Windows and OS X – I ran in via Mono).
Update: This code is on github @ https://github.com/DavidVeksler/EmbedPicasaProperties
The below will not be updated.
using System; using System.IO; namespace ConvertPicasaToFolderDates { class MainClass { private const string IniFileName = @".picasa.ini"; private static void Main(string[] args) { string startFolder = @"/Users/davidv/Pictures/"; Console.WriteLine(startFolder); UpdateFoldersInPath(startFolder); } private static void UpdateFoldersInPath(string folder) { string[] directories = Directory.GetDirectories(folder); if (directories.Length > 0) Console.WriteLine("{0} folders in {1}", directories.Length, folder); foreach (string directory in directories) { try { string iniPath = Path.Combine(directory, IniFileName); if (File.Exists(iniPath)) { Console.WriteLine("Parse " + iniPath); foreach (string line in File.ReadAllLines(iniPath)) { // date=29586.603900 if (!line.StartsWith("date=")) continue; string dateString = line.Substring(5); DateTime date = ConverPicasaDateToDateTime(dateString); DateTime originalTime = Directory.GetCreationTime(directory); if (originalTime != date && date.Year < 2010) { Console.WriteLine("{0} to {1}", originalTime, date); Directory.SetCreationTime(directory, date); // (For Mono SetCreationTime did not work correctly, so use SetLastWriteTime.) Directory.SetLastWriteTime(directory,date); } break; } } } catch (Exception ex) { Console.WriteLine(ex); } try { UpdateFoldersInPath(directory); } catch (Exception ex) { Console.WriteLine(ex); } } } // convert =29586.603900 to date time format private static DateTime ConverPicasaDateToDateTime(string dateString) { var startDate = new DateTime(1900, 1, 1); DateTime date = startDate.AddDays(Convert.ToDouble(dateString) -2); Console.WriteLine("new date: " + date); return date; } } } |
