Need assistance with adjusting date and time of original photo when editing info in Photos.

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Need assistance with adjusting date and time of original photo when editing info in Photos.

I am scanning older photos into Photos and trying to adjust date of photo to the correct date with the Image edit feature. Instead of changing the date as I have entered, the time difference is subtracted from the date scanned in resulting in the incorrect date. The date keeps subtracting backwards to an earlier time each time I try to correct it. Is there a different way to assign the correct date/time as it is not putting the actual date entered? HELP! Trying to put together albums and family history is difficult as the date keeps me from moving the pictures in order based on timeline. Thank you in advance for your help.

MacBook Pro 13", 10.13

Posted on Jan 28, 2019 12:49 PM

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léonie

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Jan 29, 2019 7:57 AM in response to vickie228

Do you have a single photo selected or several photos at once, when you use "Adjust Date& Time"?

This feature is meant to correct the time shift, if the clock in your camera has been set to an incorrect time. if you select several photos at once, it will set the first selected photo to the new date & time you enter, and shift the date and time of all successive photos by the same offset, assuming, that all dates are wrong be the same offset, if the camera clock has been set incorrectly.

But Photos is somewhat buggy. Sometimes the photo will not be adjusted to the data & time we enter, but set to a completely different year. If that happens, I quit Photos immediately, and restart it. That will usually let me set the date correctly. Sometimes even restarting Photos will not help. In that case I restart the Mac.

For scanned photos I am using an Apple Script to adjust the dates. When I have several scans, that I want to set to the same date and time, but with a small increment between successive photos, so they can be sorted by the date and time, I am using this script - it mimics the batch change of iPhoto:

See this link: Script: Batch Change the Date and Time to a Fixed Date

And this script will also copy the keywords and the location to all other selected photos, not only the date and time: Script: Lift and Stamp all Metadata from one Photo to All Other Selected Photos

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vickie228 Author

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Feb 2, 2019 1:02 PM in response to léonie

Thank you so much for this information! I did try a restart of Photos and was able to enter and save the correct date, for now. The challenge is I am scanning pictures from the 1930's up to the present (thousands of them!) that do not have a digital date on them. The original date saved is the scanned date so am trying to be as efficient as I can and do any adjustments upfront rather than try to go back. It's a work in progress. I will also take a look at the script and try to use that as well ahead of time at the time of scanning.

I appreciate your help!!

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