transfer iphoto without losing create date

SO this is what I have found:

1. Open iTunes - (I'm not sure for what, but this is what they said on Apple page)

2. Plug in your iPhone

3. Open Photos App - (the one with a colorful flower as an icon)

4. Make sure you have a full screen, if not then in the middle of the screen on the top you should see Albums / Import / Photos / Projects etc.

5. Choose Import

6. Wait until all photos from your iPhone will load into this app. It might take a while.

7. Choose which photos do you want to transfer and click Import Selected at the top of the screen - if you don't have much space on your Mac - like me - you will have to keep selecting bunch of photos and transfer them, then delete them when they are safe on your external hard drive and keep on doing that until you have all that you need. You can click on delete photos - so when they will import, it will automatically be deleted from your iPhone and Photo App.

8. Change on the top of the screen from Import to Album - there are your imported photos. Select them all.

9. Go to the very top of the screen (black menu) - choose FILE - Export - Export unmodified originals - click to tag Export IPTC as XMP - File name: use file name - subcathalog : Moments / Memory name. Click Export.

10. Choose your externadl harddrive - and file where you want to save it. Click on Export oryginals.

11. Go back to Photo App. Select all photos that you have just exported to your External hard drive. Select them and delete them.

12. Choose Delete at the top menu instead of Album and Import - and also delete them from there or empty your trash bin in Photo App (not on your Mac).

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?

The Photos for Mac forum is here:

https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os/photos_osx/content

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?

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

Is this about iPhoto? Or Photos?