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Apple Photos continue to "randomly" advance actual photo dates years into the future.

If not for "Recents" Photo folder, it is very difficult to find a new Photo in the library having 2,000 photos advanced years into the future. For example, one of my photos is from 20APL2020 it is now showing as 01OCT2024. Or four years, 5 months and 11 days in the future. I know this because I posted the picture on another service having the correct date. It gets worse. The dates are not the same, but the shift of 1625 days is the same. So 2,000+ photos are having a date 1625 days after they were taken.



Posted on Apr 30, 2022 11:54 PM

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User profile for user: TonyCollinet
TonyCollinet
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Posted on May 1, 2022 12:12 AM

Hi


Have you ever used the adjust date/time feature. Is it possible you unknowingly had multiple photos selected at the time? This might explain how it happened. Or is it possible that you've downloaded from the other service, and somehow the date has been changed during the transfer process. (Check one of the images as it was before you imported to photos using the inspector in preview)


In any case (assuming they are all off by the same amount):


  • use a smart album to select all the images with a future date - date - is after - 1/1/2023 (or any date which will identify all the suspect images (this will work if all the problem images have been adjusted into the future)
  • From the smart album, drag them all into a standard album, so you can still identify them for checking when you've changed the date.
  • Select all the images, and from the image menu: image>adjust date and time.
  • The pane will show the first image in the selection. Set the date time to be correct for that image. All the other images will be adjusted - not to the same date/time, but by the same amount. Test it first with just 2 or 3 to check, if you are not sure.


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TonyCollinet
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May 1, 2022 12:12 AM in response to dhague

Hi


Have you ever used the adjust date/time feature. Is it possible you unknowingly had multiple photos selected at the time? This might explain how it happened. Or is it possible that you've downloaded from the other service, and somehow the date has been changed during the transfer process. (Check one of the images as it was before you imported to photos using the inspector in preview)


In any case (assuming they are all off by the same amount):


  • use a smart album to select all the images with a future date - date - is after - 1/1/2023 (or any date which will identify all the suspect images (this will work if all the problem images have been adjusted into the future)
  • From the smart album, drag them all into a standard album, so you can still identify them for checking when you've changed the date.
  • Select all the images, and from the image menu: image>adjust date and time.
  • The pane will show the first image in the selection. Set the date time to be correct for that image. All the other images will be adjusted - not to the same date/time, but by the same amount. Test it first with just 2 or 3 to check, if you are not sure.


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Apple Photos continue to "randomly" advance actual photo dates years into the future.

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