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,
radster01

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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