Arranging photos in date order

Is it possible to arrange all my pictures in date order within a event or album?

View Menu -> Sort Photos -> By Date and choose Ascending or Descending.
Regards
TD

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Sorting photos by date

I've synced my photos to my iPod but within each folder they show up in filename order. I've given each file a name that actually means something, so this is not a useful order for display purposes.
Is it possible to get the iPod to show photos in date order? I've used a little utility to set the modification date of all my photos to be the same as the date the photo was taken (extracted from the EXIF information in the JPEG).
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View -> Sort Photos.

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Order photos by date taken

Hi all,
I have a problem on my Mac is that when I organise my old photos by date created, it says "2009" and then lists the rest of the files in name order. Is there a way to organise these photos by date taken; i.e. so I see the ones that were created first or maybe by saying 2 December 2009 instead of just 2009?. Or like Date Taken in Windows Explorer?
Thanks,
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You can't use that metadata in the Finder, but if your files were created on the date taken, you can Sort or Arrange by Date Created.
If you really want to organize by Date Taken (from the EXIF data), then use iPhoto. That is the program that organizes Photos.
Regardless, you are Arranging by Date Created, not Sorting.
Arrangement is a Grouping of like things. When you Arrange by a Date, it groups them by Today, Yesterday, Current Week, Month, and then by Year thereafter.
If you want to Sort by Date Created, hold down the Option key when selecting the button or menu item. The options will change from Arrange to Sort.
You can set both at same time from the View Options for the window (View menu, Show View Options).
You can Arrange independent of Sort, and Sort independent of Arrange (set Arrangement to None), or you can do both. If you Arrange by one criteria, you can then sort the items in each group by another criteria.
In your case, you can set the Arrangement to None, then the Sort to Date Created.
Or, if you like the groupings, but also want the files in the group sorted by Date Created, Set both Arrangement and Sort to Date Created.

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I wish to organise my photo collection in date order. For example a recent special holiday starts at the end as slide 1, which also means the slide show automatically starts at the end. I have tried to change this by going to 'view', then 'arrangement' then 'date oldest first' but there is no response to clicking this. I just wish to reverse the order but also some of the pictures are out of sequence too, which is puzzling me!
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Hi Penny,
The order for collections is entirely manual. You can put them in any old
way you want... but as you are finding, you can't do them automatically.
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Order photos by date

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If you really want to organize by Date Taken (from the EXIF data), then use iPhoto. That is the program that organizes Photos.
Regardless, you are Arranging by Date Created, not Sorting.
Arrangement is a Grouping of like things. When you Arrange by a Date, it groups them by Today, Yesterday, Current Week, Month, and then by Year thereafter.
If you want to Sort by Date Created, hold down the Option key when selecting the button or menu item. The options will change from Arrange to Sort.
You can set both at same time from the View Options for the window (View menu, Show View Options).
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In your case, you can set the Arrangement to None, then the Sort to Date Created.
Or, if you like the groupings, but also want the files in the group sorted by Date Created, Set both Arrangement and Sort to Date Created.

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As stated at http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4221 ...
“Your iPhone device will look for the following EXIF tags within your pictures:
Capture Date
Date Time Digitized
Date Time Original
Last Modified”
If the above EXIF data are missing, the iPhone “sorts these photos by the date the files themselves were created.”
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EXPORT LOCATION---
Export To = (choose ‘Pictures Folder’ from menu)
Add To This Catalog = unchecked
Existing files = Ask what to do (You shouldn’t ever be asked—the folder should already be empty as discussed below.)
FILE NAMING---
Rename to: Choose ‘Edit” from the menu, delete any contents from the the field, type “Nature”, Insert the ‘Sequence # (001)’ token then press ‘Done’.
Start number = “1000” (The example shown should be “Nature1000.jpg)
Extensions = Choose “Lower case” (It probably doesn’t matter.)
(Note: The images don’t really need to be renamed—they’ll be sorted in their creation order—but, maybe iPhone will return to sorting images by their file names someday. Including “Nature” in the filename is for clarity and to avoid any problems there might be with having multiple files named 001.jpg in several folders on the iPhone.)
FILE SETTINGS---
Format = JPEG
Color Space = sRGB
Quality = 80
Limit File Size To = unchecked
Include Video Files = checked (if you want to include them)
IMAGE SIZING---
Resize to Fit = Long Edge, 960 pixels
Resolution = 240 pixels per inch
Don’t Enlarge = unchecked (or checked if you wish)
OUTPUT SHARPENING---
Sharpen for ‘Screen’
Amount = Standard
METADATA---
Minimize Embedded Metadata = checked (This is really important!)
WATERMARKING---
Watermark = unchecked (or add one if you want)
POST-PROCESSING---
Choose ‘Do Nothing’
SAVE THE ABOVE AS A PRESET!
Press the [Add] button (lower left corner) and save these setting as a Preset named “iPhone - Nature”
(Note: If you make changes to any setting, hover your mouse over the Preset’s name, right-click and choose “Update with Current Settings” so they’ll be available next time you use that Preset.)
FIRST-TIME EXPORT:
1. Select Lightroom Library’s Collection “iPhone - Nature”
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3. Select all images (or just the ones you want)
4. Press Export
5. Choose the “iPhone - Nature” Preset then press [Export]
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7. Connect iPhone to computer
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9. Press [Sync] (in lower right corner)
SUBSEQUENT EXPORTS:
1. Delete all files from Pictures/Nature
2. Sync iPhone (verify that Nature is then no longer among Photo’s albums)
3. Complete the steps listed under FIRST-TIME EXPORT.

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DIT-DIT-DIT-DAH

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I usually have my Mac laptop up with Messages running on it. As you know, it will receive the same messages you send/receive on your iPhone. I thought all my old photos would be there too, but they have all disappeared as well except for the last few.
Messages is supposed to archive all old photos to a directory called ~/Library/Messages/Attachments. On my mac, this was a 0 byte file that was created back in Jan 2014. As a result, none of the old photos got saved on my Messages app either. I looked at a Time Machine Backup and it has been the case since September (no earlier backups available). So, it's unclear how long this issue has been going on for my Messages app and how related it is to my iPhone problem.
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Either there was a really terrible bug in the Apple software or something malicious has happened.
P.S. I'm running OS 10.9.5 Mavericks. There is a thread of people with this problem on Yosemite here:
No pictures are shown in Message om Mac
This seems like a pretty seriously terrible bug. I will be talking again to AppleCare on Wednesday and I hope they can escalate this.

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