Image capture and sort photos correctly by date (SOLUTION)
Hello all:
+Image Capture+ has a hard time sorting photos properly unless you use the YEAR-MONTH-DAY short date format.
For example, if you try viewing photos on a memory card and your date format is month/day/year +Image Capture+ will first sort your photos by month, then date and finally year. If you list photos by day/month/year it'll first sort on day, then month, and finally year. Get the picture?
The solution is simple once you see the pattern:
Set your SHORT date format to YEAR-MONTH-DAY in System Preferences -> International -> Formats -> Dates/Customize.
Drag the colourful icons so you have the SHORT date format as 2010/01/05 (or 2010/1/5 if you don't use 0 in front of days or months).
As an aside: I do find it slightly amusing that the most logical date format (there's no ambiguity as to whether someone used mm/dd/yyyy by mistake instead of dd/mm/yyyy) is the one that works "best" with Image Capture.
This had been driving me CRAZY! Thanks so much for posting this.
Now if I could only get my iPhone 4 Camera Roll to list all the pics in date order as well... I restored them from a 3GS back-up and now they're in a jumbled mess.
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