I am trying to organize my photos by date taken.

I have been looking on here for my answers. I now know I can organize by 'date taken' by using the exif file. I know how to pull up the info for each photo individually but is there a way to pull up ALL photos in an event or album and organize by date taken? I am used to windows and being able to just click and it is done. I know the photo metadata can be read with iphoto and finder only can read file metadata.

Details please including versions of iPhoto and OS, detailed symptoms, error messages, etc
LN

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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?
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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.
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I use exiftool to modify the Creation and Modification time of the files. After that I use LR "Ajust time" feature to set the time of the movies in LR to the file creation time (last point). This works fine for me.
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exiftool -FileModifyDate+=1 -FileCreateDate+=1 -if "$CameraModelName =~ /EOS 600D/i" *.mov
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exiftool <filename> gives you detailed information about all available times.

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iPhoto will not organize all photos by dat
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Some photos from 20 years ago suddenly appear to be current.
This sounds like some other problem - that somehow you have modified the dates on these photos
Entering edit, select all; photo, adjust date
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view, arrange by date. Does not move the photos to their proper location.
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LN

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Option 1
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