Altering the metadata of photos to improve display order?
I am having a problem organizing my photos. A few years ago, when I was stuck in PC world, I had a computer crash. I was dumb enough at that time to not have a recent HD backup. A friend of mine removed my hard drive and hooked it up as a slave drive to his computer to salvage many valuable photos, etc... This was in 2004.
So the metadata of all photos up to that date was erased. It was no problem, as at that time I organized my photos through Windows Explorer and was able to file the photos by date manually in the folders.
Now that I use iPhoto for all photo management, I'm having a problem with the display order of the photos. Photos that were taken in 2002 are displayed in the middle of the 2004 photos, because in the "photo info" screen there are no "original" or "digitized" dates. There is only the "modified date" in 2004 because this is when the photos were recovered from the slave drive.
Is there any way to change the metadata in these files to make them show up in the correct chronological order? This is a very annoying situation.
Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.
If you also want to change the Capture Date in the original file you can use PhotoInfo to batch change that date. If all in a folder are the same date you can then have them sequentially index by 1 minute per photo or whatever delta time you'd like. But iPhoto won't recognize that date until those files are imported again. If you don't want to reimport all of those files you can change the dates within iPhoto as Terence described for use within iPhoto and use PhotoInfo just to make sure the original files are up to date and later use outside of iPhoto. Just don't rename any of the files or move them via the Finder while updating the dates.
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How do I have photos in iPhoto display on their face
the date and time? Displaying in the camera shows
this. When I check edit the info is there. How do I
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grateful
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