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Retain image info with Nokia 6600 and iView Media Pro Apps
I'm very happy of my Nokia 6600 and I love iView Media Pro, especially for its excellent cataloguing tools. However, I was a little disappointed when I noticed that pictures shot with the mobile phone and transfered via Bluetooth to the Mac are given as creation date the date and time of transfer.

I was looking for a way to recover the original capture date, to be able to sort pictures correctly, so I cooked up -- borrowing extensively from the supplied scripts -- the following AppleScript. It updates the creation and modification dates of pictures using the data available in the caption field of the image metadata. You need Developer Tools installed because it relies on SetFile To use, drop the script in the local Plug-Ins folder, which can be located (or created if necessary) in either of the following two locations:
  • ~User/Library/Application Support/iView/Plug-ins
  • /Library/Application Support/iView/Plug-ins
Read the rest of the hint for the AppleScript...

on run
  -- get the list of selected ID's in front window
  set selectedItems to GetSelection()
  
  -- show about
  AboutScript()
  
  -- process each item
  repeat with theItem in selectedItems
    tell application "iView MediaPro"
      --get path to image
      set PathToImgs to the path of theItem
      --get caption of image
      set theCaption to the caption of theItem
    end tell
    
    -- change caption to list
    set captionlist to {}
    copy every paragraph of theCaption to end of captionlist
    set captionlist to first item of captionlist
    --dates on my phone are stored as dd/mm/yyyy
    --os x uses the american date format mm/dd/yyyy
    --this routine formats the date correctly
    set calendarDate to formatDate(item 4 of captionlist)
    set theDate to calendarDate & " " & item 5 of captionlist
    
    -- change path style from AppleScript to Unix
    set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ":"
    set PathToImgsUnix to {}
    copy every text item of PathToImgs to end of PathToImgsUnix
    set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "/"
    set PathToImgsUnix to first item of PathToImgsUnix
    set first item of PathToImgsUnix to ""
    set PathToImgsUnix to PathToImgsUnix as string
    
    -- build shell command and execute
    set shellBatch to "bash -c "/Developer/Tools/SetFile"
    --comment not to set the modification date:
    set shellBatch to shellBatch & " -m \"" & theDate & "\"" 
    set shellBatch to shellBatch & " -d \"" & theDate & "\""
    set shellBatch to shellBatch & " \"" & PathToImgsUnix & "\""
    set shellBatch to shellBatch & """
    do shell script shellBatch
  end repeat
end run

-- formats a date dd/mm/yyyy as mm/dd/yyyy -----------------------
on formatDate(aDate)
  set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "/"
  set tempList to {}
  copy every text item of aDate to the end of tempList
  set tempList to first item of tempList
  set tempMM to item 2 of tempList
  set item 2 of tempList to item 1 of tempList
  set item 1 of tempList to tempMM
  return tempList as string
end formatDate

-- get the selected media items in an array ----------------------
on GetSelection()
  set selectedItems to {}
  tell application "iView MediaPro"
    if window 1 exists then set selectedItems to the selection of window 1
  end tell
  if number of items in selectedItems is 0 then
    display dialog ¬
      "You need to select at least one media item in the front catalog in order to use this script." ¬
      buttons {"OK"} default button ¬
      "OK" with icon note giving up after 10
    error number -128
  end if
  return selectedItems
end GetSelection


-- about this script
on AboutScript()
  display dialog ¬
    "About "Date from Caption (Nokia 6600)"" & return & return & ¬
    "Copies the capture date from the picture's caption " & ¬
    "to the Finder's Creation date." & return ¬
    buttons {"Cancel", "OK"} default button 2 with icon note
  
  set theAnswer to the button returned of the result
  return theAnswer
end AboutScript
I'm not an AppleScript guru, so some code might be written more efficiently, but it works beautifully.
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