Have I edited a photo?

[henryg]

My habit after I have edited a folder of photos has been to reset the (Windows) file modified date, and rather stupidly in many cases also the exif date modified, back to the exif date created<fx:sigh> It was to make sorting "better", but I now want to see what photos in a folder have and/or have not been edited.

It seems that Affinity adds XMP metadata to edited photos ("History/Software Agent/Affinity..."), but I can find no easy way of listing this metadata by folder/file.

Any suggestions, including other methods, would be very much appreciated.

[Ali]

Do you by any chance still have the original photos on the device they were taken on? If so, reimport them. If not, I'm pretty sure you are stuffed, but would love to be proved wrong.

[David in Яuislip]

exiftool -HistorySoftwareAgent file.jpg   

will show

History Software Agent          : Affinity Photo 1.10.4

if a file's been edited with Photo

[henryg]

On 12/31/2021 at 11:24 AM, David in Яuislip said:

exiftool -HistorySoftwareAgent file.jpg   

will show

History Software Agent          : Affinity Photo 1.10.4

if a file's been edited with Photo

Thank you. I have also found that using Ultrasearch I can search for files containing "Affinity" to find edited files; FileLocator Pro allows me to search for "Affinity" or  "NOT Affinity" which gives me either edited or unedited. PHEW!!

You can be sure I will NOT be resetting the exif modified date in future.