I have a MacBook Air. Just upgraded the OS.
How can i transfer photos out of i photo and into my external hard drive without losing the create date? I don't want the pictures in i photo at all. I've tried cutting and pasting, dragging and dropping, one picture and multiple pictures at a time. Sometimes create date stays, sometimes it changes to today's date. Please help.
thank you!
MacBook Air
I want to sort my photos in Finder by the date they were created, but that date was changed to the date I moved the file. I don't really want to open them in an app unless I have to.
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Simple Steps:
Use Image Capture (in the Applications Folder). That's even more simple.
If you want to organise your photographs like files, then use the Finder. That's what the Finder is for. The weakness is that the Finder makes no distinction between what the files contain - music, photos, text, whatever. Plus, there's that whole non-destructive editing thing.
Every photo application of any value at all ignores the file data and works with the exif, because it's more useful and more accurate.
So, why do you want to maintain trivial data? Surely the important stuff is the Photo's date not the file's date.
What that person needs is simple steps.
I have the same problem, I want to transfer photos taken by iphone to my AirMac and next to an external drive. I don't care what EXIF data is, I just want to know the steps like : open that app, select this, click here etc.
Can anyone help by providing steps for Dummies.
I had to reformat my MacBook Pro as on Sierra it was so slow it was practically asleep. Guy at help centre said this 'vintage' model (2012 huh!!) not suited to Sierra and re-installed El Capitein. Re-install from my external harddrive containing backups did not work. Had to manually re-install. So in Photos now all photos taken in say 2014 are no longer organised month by month but bundled together, even tho they are stored month by month on the External hard drive on which I saved them. Soooo when I want to manually back up Photos from Mac to an external harddrive after say I have deleted photos, I cannot do it month by month. Is it possible to import the Photos I saved to my external harddrive back into MacBook Pro in EXACTLY the same file numbering system as when I copied them out of my MacBook Pro?
There are two kinds of metadata involved when you consider jpeg or other image file.
One is the file data. This is what the Finder shows. This tells you nothing about the contents of the file, just the File itself.
The problem with File metadata is that it can easily change as the file is moved from place to place or exported, e-mailed, uploaded etc.
Photographs have also got both Exif and IPTC metadata. The date and time that your camera snapped the Photograph is recorded in the Exif metadata. Regardless if what the file date says, this is the actual time recorded by the camera.
Photo applications like iPhoto, Aperture, Lightroom, Picasa, Photoshop etc get their date and time from the Exif metadata.
When you export from iPhoto to the Finder new file is created containing your Photo (and its Exif). The File date is - quite accurately - reported as the date of Export.
However, the Photo Date doesn't change.
The problem is that the Finder doesn't work with Exif.
So, your photo has the correct date, and so does the file, but they are different things. To sort on the Photo date you'll need to use a photo app.
I've tried cutting and pasting, dragging and dropping, one picture and multiple pictures at a time. Sometimes create date stays, sometimes it changes to today's date. Please help.
thank you!
If the creation date will stay, will depend on whether you edited the photo or not. Dragging, cutting and pasting will export edited versions, and they will have to be rendered a new image files from your original files.
Only "File > Export > Original" with "Kind: Original" will export the original untouched image file without any changed file creation dates. But as TD and LarryHN explained, the file creation date will tell you, when the file for the edited version of a photo has been created, not the EXIF capture date. The dates on the files are there to compare which version of the same photo is the newer one, not when the photo has been taken.
I believe Shutterfly have a plug-in for iPhoto that allows you to upload directly from the app. Search their website.
Other than that:
For help accessing your photos in iPhoto see this user tip:
Is this about iPhoto? Or Photos?
They do not lose their date - you are simply confusing the photo date embedded in the photo EXIF data (which is easily viewed by photo software like Preview or iPhoto) and the file date which has nothing to do with the photo and is easily viewed by file software like the finder
Every time you create a new file the file date is new - the photo date remains constant
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Do you think Iphoto is the best way to organize photos? I'm used to a filing system in a windows format.
It depends what you want from a photo library.
iPhoto (and Aperture) are perfect for storing your photos and retrieving them for you based on metadata, like titles, keywords, capture time, camera type, etc. It will let you organize albums for several purposes and use the same photo in many albums without duplicating the photos. It will keep track of the edits you are doing the photos, and group your edited versions with the original, so you can always find all versions of a photo or revert to the original.
If you store your photos in files, you will have to do all that on your own.
There are 9 different versions of iPhoto and they run on 10 different versions of the Operating System. The tricks and tips for dealing with issues vary depending on the version of iPhoto and the version of the OS. So to get help you need to give as much information as you can. Include things like:
- What version of iPhoto.
- What version of the Operating System.
- Details. As full a description of the problem as you can. For example, if you have a problem with exporting, then explain by describing how you are trying to export, and so on.
- History: Is this going on long? Has anything been installed or deleted? - Are there error messages?
- What steps have you tried already to solve the issue.
- Anything unusual about your set up? Or how you use iPhoto?
Anything else you can think of that might help someone understand the problem you have.
From IPhone or IPad to PC
After transferring photos onto a PC (Win 7 Pro in my case) by copy/paste, drag/drop, etc., you will notice the date created and modified on the PC will be the date/time you transferred the photo(s) onto the PC and not when the photo was taken....
However, if you;
1. Right Click in the new PC folder your pictures were copied into.
2. Select View.
3. Select Details.
2. With various columns of file details now displayed, right click anywhere in the columns name row.
3. Select More from the pop up window.
4. Scroll down to and Check the "Content Created" box.
5. Select OK.
Date and Time picture was taken will now be displayed in the new "Content Created" column you have just added to the Details View of the file folder.
From IPhone or IPad to PC
Ok - But transferring from an IOS device to a PC has nothing at all to do with this thread which is about exporting photos out of iPhoto for Mac and has been fully answered with detailed explanations as to what is happening and how to handle it
LN
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