I just made a terrible mistake. I updated all my pictures in iPhoto - with the wrong date and time.
I would very much like to give all my pictures back the original time and date.
When I tried this, using «Adjust time and date» - the original date and time shown - is not the original date and time.
But the same date and time as the pictures are updated with.
Can this be solved? Please help!
-C
MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
Do you have a back up?
How did you redate your photos?
The safest way to fix this would be to restore your iPhoto Library from the last back you made before you modified the date. See this help document: iPhoto '11: Restoring from Time Machine with iPhoto '11 (9.2 or later) and OS X Lion 10.7.2 (or later)
If your backup is too old, you can only fix it by reimporting the original files, if you did not apply the "Modify Original Files" flag, when you adjusted the time. Did you use this flag?
No, no back up. I’m not so technical, and can’t get my Time Machine to start… 😟
To re-date the photos, I actually just marked one folder with approx 80 pictures, and chose the «Adjust time and date»
and updated the date.
It took a very long time, and when the update was completed - I noticed that the rest of my folders was updated as well.
WItch I did not mean to do….but SURPRISE! (OH NOOO)
No back-up I’m afraid.
And the original files are deleted a long time ago, from my iPhone and Camera.
I used «Modify original files» 😟
And the original files are deleted a long time ago, from my iPhone and Camera.
I used «Modify original files»
Do you know for any of your photos what the correct date and time should be? So you can calculate, by which amount the date and time is wrong? Is there any photo showing a clock or similar?
"Adjust Date and Time" adds the same offset to all photos. You just to need to find out, by which exact amount all dates and times have been shifted.
Then select all photos again, and adjust them by the same amount again, but this time negative.
Then there is no way - you really need to alway have a backup - with one you will lose things again and sooner or later you will lose everything
Simply purchase a time Capsule or other external drive formatted Mac OS extended (journaled) about 2 to 2 1/2 times the size o your main drive, connect it and start running TimeMachine all the time - https://www.apple.com/support/timemachine/
LN
Got the back-up set ut now 😉
Got the back-up set ut now 😉
Thanks, léonie!
This looks like the best solution, and maybe the only one.
So I’ll try it. Fingers crossed.
Thank you all!
C
Thanks, I’m backing up as we speak! 🙂
This looks like the best solution, and maybe the only one.
So I’ll try it. Fingers crossed.
You're welcome! 🙂 Good luck!
Hi léonie,
It’s me again. And im ready to update the date on my photos….
Just one question:
Some pictures seem to have the correct time, as in hours, munites and seconds.
But some of them are wrong.
Do you know why this differ? If I updated time as well, should not all pictures be updated?
The one folder I ment to update in the first place…there is only some of the pictures updated with the correct date and year.
The rest is wrong…… Why? The time seem to be ok on all of them.
So I have a hard time remembering if I chenged the time at all.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
The one folder I ment to update in the first place…there is only some of the pictures updated with the correct date and year.
The rest is wrong…… Why? The time seem to be ok on all of them.
Is your backup ready? This looks complicated, and you may need the backup.
Either the dates were wronger than you expected, or only a few photos have been selected, when you applied the "Adjust Date and time".
set original date and time back to all my pictures
