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On Windows 10, it is fairly easy to search for photos taken within some date range. However, I would like to search for all photos that are missing metadata on when the photo was taken. Is there any way I can do that?

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    In simple terms, you should be able to open File Explorer, target a folder hierarchy containing pictures, change the ribbon's View tab from Large icons to Details, right-click one of the columns and put a check mark in front of Data taken. After that, you can click on the Date taken column to sort accordingly.
    – Run5k
    Mar 16, 2018 at 13:33
  • @Run5k Of course! Can’t believe I didn’t think of that :-)
    – Fredrik P
    Mar 16, 2018 at 13:35

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In FIle Explorer search, an empty field is represented by a pair of empty square brackets:

  • Click in the Search bar and type:

DateTaken:=[]

Source: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/search/-search-3x-advancedquerysyntax#query-operators

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in case of exchangeable image file format (EXIF) you can try exiftool recursively on yourphotodir:

on Windows:

exiftool -p "$directory/$filename" -if "not $exif:all" -r yourphotodir

on Linux - single quotes:

exiftool -p '$directory/$filename' -if 'not $exif:all' -r yourphotodir
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