iPhoto has a glitch: It populates old photos as the most recent with the year date in the future! 2106

I scanned photos last month that were taken in 2006. For some odd reason they keep populating as the most recent photos (even though I have taken and scanned more photos after these) and the year says 2106 instead of 2006! When you click on the individual photo is shows the correct date but the iPhoto app keeps these old photos as the most recent due to a date that I cannot change. I tried closing out and reopening but still the 2106 photos show as the most recent. I sorted by most recent and changed by year, by month, by day and the 2106 pop up as the most recent






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MacBook Pro 17″, macOS 10.12

Posted on Dec 7, 2021 3:55 PM

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Posted on Dec 7, 2021 11:45 PM

Note that your date format only shows 06, not the 21, so there is probably not a difference here.


What happens if you select these photos, and from the image menu Image>adjust date and time?



Can you change the year there from 2106 to something more sensible? Or just change it to something, if it is missing? You need to type the 4 digit year quickly to stop it taking the first two digits as a two digit year.


Note with this method, you can select all the photos with the wrong year, and change them all in one step.

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Dec 7, 2021 11:45 PM in response to luckynla

Note that your date format only shows 06, not the 21, so there is probably not a difference here.


What happens if you select these photos, and from the image menu Image>adjust date and time?



Can you change the year there from 2106 to something more sensible? Or just change it to something, if it is missing? You need to type the 4 digit year quickly to stop it taking the first two digits as a two digit year.


Note with this method, you can select all the photos with the wrong year, and change them all in one step.

Dec 8, 2021 7:23 AM in response to TonyCollinet

Thank you for responding. If you look at the first image it shows the library and the apple created year populated of the future year 2106 (…back to the future). If you click on a photo in this year collection (second image) you will see the real date of 2006. So the image has the correct date but apple doesn’t recognize it and replaced it with a future year.

Dec 8, 2021 10:24 AM in response to luckynla

The second image gives a date of "06", which as already pointed out could be either 2006 or 2106. If you click on the image then press Cmd-I you'll get the Info panel which will display the full date.



In Library view, if you select all the images that have a date of 2106, and as already suggested click the Image menu and select Adjust Date and Time... you'll get a dialog like this:



Select the year, quickly type in 2006, then click Adjust. This will change the year to 2006:




Dec 8, 2021 1:51 AM in response to luckynla

Did you already “adjust date and time” on the photos? Perhaps you misunderstood what the command is doing. When you select several photos at once, the command will not set all selected photos to the adjusted date, but shift the date of the selected photos by the same offset. If some of the selected photos are having very different recent dates, their dates may be shifted to a date in the far future.

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