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.
Sent from my iPhone
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.
Yes I do, if you want to organise Photos.
I too am losing data - but it only occurs when dragging across a portrait photo NOT the landscape ones. Any one got any clues what I can too?
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
Use AirDrop from iPhone to Mac. Original date is kept both as Date Created and Date Modified. Very nice.
Again, nothing to do with the actual question asked.
How can i transfer photos out of i photo and into my external hard drive without losing the create date
the steps are trivial
Select the photos in photos and export them to the desired location (file menu ==> export) then view them using a photo program that understands photos
LN
Simple Steps:
Use Image Capture (in the Applications Folder). That's even more simple.
Is this about iPhoto? Or Photos?
transfer iphoto without losing create date
