Duplicated days in Photos

Guilherme G wrote:

Ok, I will try to export the photos to my Mac and verify/change the metadata of all of them and then try to import back to Photos to see if the problem is solved. Anyway if Photos organize the photos using those metadata the problem certainly its there. I'll see what can I do.

Unfortunately when you did this

I selected all photos from Photos App and drop it at a paste inside EHD

You lost much of your metadata - for any photo that was copied and pasted to disk (or drug go disk) and then imported there will be little if any of the original metadata - you have to go back to the original photos and export to have the full metadata available for export

LN

No idea - how did you make it? If you made it using TimeMachine then you use TimeMachine to restore it - how and when yo choose to backup is a personal choice and only you know what you do

for TM the directions are here - Use Time Machine to back up or restore your Mac - Apple Support

LN

No - the grouping is automatic and you can not control it - you can make an album and put them all in the album

As to why, probably because moments uses date and location for grouping and clearly the location for these two sets is different

I think if you changed the location on all of the photos to be the same they would all be in the same moment

LN

Did you cross a border between separate states, between the two sets of photos? Or is there a gap of several hours? Photos does not combine moments or collections, if the pictures have been taken in different states.

And moments will be split, if there is a long temporal gap.

Since your screenshot does not show any location data, the photos do probably not have any GPS data, and so the locations do not matter in this case. My guess is, that time difference between the two sets of photos is too large to be combined into one moment. In that case the photos should be shown combined in the Collections view. Use Collections instead of Moments to see larger groups of photos.

That does make changes - for those photos you have a lower resolution preview of the photo rather than the original and the files have new creation dates - if they photos do not have proper dates in their metadata then the file dates are used - copying and pasting is not a good way to work with photos in Photos - use the Export command (file menu ==> export) so you control what you get

LN

The file data is totally recreated and the photo you placed on the EHD is a lower quality preview of the photo not the original

If the photo metadata (EXIF and IPTC) is correct they are not changed - the file metadata is only used if the photo metadata is incorrect or not available

We can not see your computer so only you can verity those details, we can not

And the only way to have control of the image outside of Photos is to export it

LN

how exactly did you move the photos to the EHD? if you do it correctly it will not change anything but it is possible to make date chanes doing that

LN

Yes - or to restore the backup of the library from before you did this (to a separate location so as not to overwrite your existing library)

LN