I've spent a lot of time organizing and digitizing old photos. Exiftool has been a great tool, but the learning curve is fairly steep and you can end up making a lot of bad mistakes¹. Here is my ongoing cheat sheet of exiftool commands.

My Dropbox folder is full of images claiming to be "missing dates." ¹ Some of these photos were thumbnails or images from DayOne that didn't necessarily need dates, but others were real photos that for whatever reason didn't have dates that Dropbox recognized.

I did some poking around, and found …