Adjusting date of photos? Project stays unchanged

Sorry but I am so fed up with Aperture, wish I'd stayed with iPhoto!! Latest annoyance is finding a project with all the dates set 1/1/1000. I used Metadata > Adjust Date and Time to put a correct date on all the photos in the project, but the project itself (in Projects view) still shows 1/1/1000 and lists the project first chronologically. How do I get Aperture to update the project itself to reflect the date of the photos it contains? I would most certainly have expected that to happen automatically.

Jeffrey,
Wish I could offer advice to fix your issue, but I'm afraid all I have is empathy.
I recently took a class on a field trip, and the LCD screen on my point and shoot camera was broken by a student (Thanks Billy). I haven't replaced it because aside from the screen being blanked out the camera still works fine. I recently let the battery wear down to the point where the camera has reset the date & time. I can't however reset the date since I can't see the display.
Now all photos I take with the camera are set to 2005. To make matters worse, some projects I've got such as my Summer trip through the presidential traverse were taken using this camera and my DSLR which has the correct time. However, when I merge the photos from both cameras, the projects default to 2005. I sort my Aperture projects by date (most recent on top), but any projects that were taken with my point and shoot are in the middle of my list rather than the top. Pain in the ***!
I have used the "Adjust date&time", and looking in the metadata, the dates have been correctly set, but for some reason Aperture is not using this info to sort the projects by Date.
If anyone can help Jeffrey and I out, I know I would REALLY appreciate it.
Thanks in advance

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How are you selecting the photos and changing them? How much of a change are you trying to make? A total change of date and time or just a delta change either plus or minus?
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Wonder if anyone else is having this problem (some posts seem similar but not exactly the same)
1. Clean library (mix of DNG, JPEG and TIFF files)
2. Need to change dates to match other images in the project
3. Selected multiple images and used Metadata -> Adjust Date/Time
4. "Lead" image (bright white box) date and time adjusted accordingly but other images in the selection date have their capture date and time generated apparently randomly (I'm trying to set 08/01/2008 but I'm getting anything from 27/03/1982 to 24/12/2010!)
5. The dates do appear random - repeating the process will lead to different dates in the IPTC field
6. I've clean installed everything - drive format, OSX10.6.2, Aperture 3 - and rebuilt the library. The problem remains unchanged!
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I'd actually looked at this before attempting the metadata adjustment but checked it again just now to ensure I wasn't missing anything.
I guess if it's a shift based on the relative differences in the date of the imaes selected then that could explain the apparent random variations I'm getting. Although this would certainly be useful for the time stamp, when I'm trying to ensure all images in a project have the same date, relative changes certainly aren't!
I'd have to run it again tonight to confirm by comparing before/after adjustment dates. If that's what going on I think I'll have to get Adobe Bridge to do the heavy lifting for me..... just a shame I have to drag in another app rather than doing everything inside Aperture.

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Working on a batch (~3K) scanned images that all need to be adjusted for date and time, the adjustments and so forth. All notes below is with Master images.
My observations so far with the unpredictable "Adjust Date and Time" function, "D&T" hereafter and some suggestions on improving Aperture.
0. Always make sure that you start by "edit->deselect all" - even if nothing is selected.
APPLE: PLEASE MAKE IT SIMPLER TO SEE WHAT IS SELECTED (MASTERS, VERSIONS, etc).
1. Always use US language selection - Language selection seems to matter for D&T. I am from Denmark, living in US but often switch between US and DK language (to get some special characters). In Denmark we use dd-mmm-yyyy and in use we use mmm-dd-yyyy. When i use the danish locale with the "D&T" function Aperture D&T is totally unpredictable - so stick with US.
APPLE: PLEASE DONT BE TOO SMART BUT USE THE D&T FORMAT LISTED IN THE D&T DIALOG BOX
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APPLE: PLEASE ADD AN OPTION TO DISABLE TIME-SHIFT in D&T
3. Dont include DNG - Aperture cannot change the date for a dng and it seems to screw up the time-shift in "D&T" - i think the algorithm do something like
newD&T = "edit->adjust date and time"
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1994
1994
2008.dng
2008
When using a different language locale it gets even worse.
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4. Always check your trash for images - after i deleted projects (empty, no images) i have found images for those projects in the trash. Cannot explain why this is but i am happy that i checked the trash before emptying - put back works just fine.
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1. load in all pics, create albums for years and projects for months - e.g. 1993.0201 <text>, 1998.0327 <text> and sort scans to the correct albums and projects
2. export each album as separate libraries, open library, fix D&Ts, places and faces. Exit, reopen and check trash for images that should not have been deleted. Clean trash, close.
- For faces i add a few pics' of recognizable folks - open faces and select from the many suggestions aperture offers - very fast.
3. Open or import library to master (my master got ~20K pics currently)
I am interested in learning if i am the 'only one' with Aperture D&T 'problems' or if i am using the tool incorrectly.
Kenneth

nathan:
What type of edit were you making. Have been trying to duplicate that and cannot. I've changed the date and selected the original file to be changed also. Then I edited the file by cropping, changing the exposure and shadows and saving. Both versions are still tiff files.
Now these are tiff files that I converted over from jpgs with Photoshop as my camera doesn't take tiffs. Don't know if that will make any difference.
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nathan:
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Have you tried the batch change command - just under adjust date/time?
Someone else who had this problem ended up having to export the photos, reimport them, delete the old ones and the newly imported ones worked fine - I have never seen this happen myself
LN
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I believe that is what you're looking for.
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