Sort by 'Created date'?

Hi All

You know, I was going to say that I was a numbskull and that 'Date Created' in sort does sort by 'when the content of an item was created', effectively EXIF date time digitized.

But it appears that finder sorts column view differently depending on whether you are searching or browsing!

(I mostly browse using column or icon view.)

So looking at the screen shot below (nb the extra file in the on the left is a video file):

on the right - when searching for kind:image created:22/03/2017-23/03/2017 -screen and choosing sort by 'Date Created' the files are sorted as I want.

on the left - but when looking in the folder that contains the same images, again sorted by date created, they are in different order! I think ordered by file creation date.

So I do have a solution - use list view or search (thanks viking) - but it does not make sense for Finder to order the same files differently depending on whether they are browsed or searched, when the view and sorting criteria haven't changed.

dialabrain - you are right Photos does sort as I want - but it's a bit cumbersome and I do not want face recognition and there is no way to switch it off.

Thanks for your time, td

Hi Barney

Thanks for the reply - but Finder does search by 'Created date' at the moment.

(Other EXIF metadata is already on the extended search list eg: F number, ISO, Aperture etc.)

I want to sort by 'Created date' - which should be possible if it is being indexed for searching.

Thanks, td

Well the files in both windows are in the same order... but not by date and the raw files aren't with their corresponding jpegs.

And I have to say that the only place that I can get sorting by created date (date when the content of an item was created) as opposed to date created (time date when file was written) is in the search window.

I'm pretty sure I wrestled with this issue at my old job a few years back when I upgraded the image workstation to Lion - for up to date raw file support - and was hoping to be able to sort by EXIF date time digitized. But in the end I had work to do and there we had a DAM system.

Another screenshot, this time list view, the same file is highlighted in each window - note how its 'created date' is different - 21:40 in browse on the left and 19:47 in search on the right!

Hi Barney

I realise the sort of solution I'm looking for isn't an out of the box feature.

For example viewing hidden files in Finder isn't a check box feature, but you can make Finder show hidden files by running this command in Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES; killall finder

This is the sort of solution I'm looking for.

Last night I looked through Finder preferences/defaults - which you can call up with a Terminal command:

defaults read com.apple.finder

- but if 'created date' is in this file it is called something else, and it had been a long day! I'll try removing 'created date' from my extended search list tonight and see what is removed from the defaults file.

Would I be better posting my query in another part of the discussion forum? If so do you have any suggestions?

All the best, td

True thanks, see below though.