Why is "date created" gone when copying photos from Mac to External Drive (ex Fat)

I have been trying to copy photos (over 4MB each) from my MacOS Sierra to an External Hard Drive (ADATA 720 formatted in ex Fat).

When I copied a few over, some of the "date created" were changed to "today" and some stayed for the original date created. When I copied over a large file of pictures, all "date created" turned today. I have my photos open and my external drive open and I simply drag and drop a batch to the external drive.

How can I keep the date created so that I can keep the files from 1958 onwards.

Help and thanks!

Operating system version 10.12.6

Posted on Mar 18, 2018 10:27 AM

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Yer_Man

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Mar 18, 2018 4:13 PM in response to Viegehts

Well you are free to think that. You're wrong, but free.

Yer_Man

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Mar 19, 2018 1:39 AM in response to Viegehts

What format is the external drive?

And, as I explained above, the file date has nothing to do with the Photo date.

Yer_Man

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Mar 19, 2018 3:51 PM in response to Viegehts

o ExFAT and Master Boot Record (sorry that i don't understand the terms

That's why the date hops around like that.

Viegehts Author

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Mar 20, 2018 4:50 AM in response to Yer_Man

Hi Terrance, Do you have a better format suggestion so that the dates don't hop around? Help again and thanks.

Lexiepex

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Mar 20, 2018 11:45 AM in response to Viegehts

why don't you use a good app for the metadata fields. The app I recommended makes metadata fields even if there were no fields at all.

Viegehts Author

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Mar 20, 2018 11:50 AM in response to VikingOSX

Thank you VikingOSX, will try to do that! Appreciate your help so much. 🙂

Lexiepex

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Mar 21, 2018 1:06 AM in response to Viegehts

NO, that is not good enough, fields that are not in the image file metadata may not be created.

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