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How do I export photos from iphoto to my hard drive with the location listed after the date? Currently, any photo that has GPS on is exported "Location, year.month.day". This creates difficulty organizing my back up photos because it goes alphabetically by location name instead of chronologically by date. What I would like is for it to export "year.month.day, Location". Is that possible?
To force Photos to use the yyyy-mm-dd format for the folder names I am changing the defaults with a Terminal command. This has been suggested in this discussion for Ventura: : macOS Ventura 13.0 - Language Region - Da… - Apple Community
To append the timezone suffix to the time paste this into the Terminal:
defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleICUTimeFormatStrings -dict-add "2" "HH:mm:ss z"
And to change the date format:
defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleICUDateFormatStrings -dict-add "3" "yyyy-MM-dd"
Richard, on MacOS 14 we can specify a format for the date in System Settings > General > Language & Region. One of the options is yyyy.mm.dd .
Sadly, Photos is ignoring this System Setting format when I try to export photos with the option "Format for Subfolder name" set to "moment". It is using the format day, month, year.
And I found no way to force Photos to change the order of the date and location, so the Moment name will start with the date, which would be much more convenient.
I am simply exporting the photos from each moment separately and move them to enclosing folders year > Month > Day.
Are you, in fact, using the app Photos rather than the app iPhotos which was discontinued in 2018? Are you using a Mac? What operating system are you using?
Is "Location, year.month.day" a filename or a Title, or a caption, or what? Are you using "location" to mean the GPS latitude and longitude? Can you give some examples of what you mean?
Export moments with location after date
