Exporting photos with metadata

I have exported my photos but the Create date is the date that I exported - i.e. I have lost all the meta data regarding the time and date the picture as taken. What is the option that I need to tick for this data to be exported such that my photos retain their original create date?
Thanks
James

James
Select the file in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export. In the resulting dialogue have the option to write the tags, captions, titles and location metadata to the file.
The date and time data is written to the file anyway.
but the Create date is the date that I exported
Are you looking with the Finder? The date and time on the photograph is contained in the Exif metadata. The Finder is unaware of Exif and shows you the date and time of the file. View the pic with an app that is Exif aware.
Regards
TD

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Terence, thank you for your quick reply!
You basically confirmed what I found out by trial-and-error.
Unfortunately, I think the news is bad. Here's why:
A typical picture in my iPhoto library, a JPEG taken by a compact digicam, is 1.8 MB. Let's compare that to the sizes of the same picture when exported using the various options:
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11.4 MB - TIFF - lossless, all metadata included
3.1 MB - JPEG Maximum - lossy but all metadata included
0.7 MB - JPEG High - lossy but all metadata included
You wrote "For my money the best bet is the tiff". I know tiff's are the highest quality format (non-lossy), but, in my case anyway, they're 6.3 X larger.
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Now as well as not understanding much about Photos, files and metadata, you demonstrate that you are equally clueless about iPhoto.
. You will see two folders named Originals and Modified and if you want to just bail on iPhoto and possibly retain some organization of your photos, you can just drag these out of the iPhoto library to your hard drive
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...is that your original photo metadata is still in the photo,
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Apple made NEW file dates when it imported them.
Yes. But as explained above, the photo date is not the fie date.
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