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cape-carlo Author

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Export Videos with ORIGINAL Creation Date under Photos App

Hello everyone,

I am having trouble exporting some of my videos from photos (Mac mini and Macbook).

I want to export the VIDEOS as video files keeping the ORIGINAL DATE which they were created.

I do not want to: have video files with the date of exporting as the files creation date.

I tried dragging the videos as well as file>export (both the unmodified and modified option for exporting a video). The results are the same, creation, modification date are the same date as exportation and the video files are dispersed in folders titled with the original creation date (rather than the files having the meta data in them).

For those who want to tell me that exporting the video means losing the creation date as meta data, you are wrong:

I am able to "export" my video files from my iPhone via "AirDrop" to my Computer; surprisingly those files are exactly as I wish them to be: original file name, original creation date, original modification date, no confusing subfolder mix....

However, I do not understand why my new great and powerful MAC MINI M1 is unable to export video files the same way as my iPhone does.

Mac mini 2018 or later

Posted on Apr 8, 2021 2:58 PM

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TonyCollinet

Level 7

23,903 points

Posted on Apr 10, 2021 4:14 AM

No argument from me - it is a pretty poor experience, and Apple should (and most annoyingly - easily could) be doing better.

But they aren't - so we have to live with the workarounds, or vote with our feet, and go elsewhere.

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