RAW 8.4 Changing Date Created

I cannot change the date in Date Created in File Info. The new date shows in File Info but has no effect with sorting as the File Properties shows the original date. I have tried MM/DD/YYYY and MM/DD/YYYY 00:00:00 AM.
Fujifilm X-T1 RAW files

I found my answer...
To change the date use the "Date Time Original" field.

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Unable to change Date Created in Metadata

Please help with my first post...
Unable to change Date Created field in Metadata.
I am a newspaper photographer sending .jpg pics with captions to my office from my iMac. They are viewed at the office on Windows PCs using SCC MediaGrid.
When changing Date Created in Metadata Invalid Format warning appears "Format should be ISO 8601 XML compliant, that is YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm[:ss][tz] (eg 2006-07-11T13:14:30-07:00)"
If 2009-09-26, for example, is entered then exported pictures opened up in Photoshop or shown on SCC MediaGrid do not display the date.
To get dates to show up I first have to open a pic in Photoshop, go to File Info, enter 26/9/09 in Date Created and Save As.
Next I have to Import this into Aperture where the Date Created shows as "20090926".
Using Lift Metadata and Stamp Metadata the date can be transferred to other pics.
Now when I export these pics the date does show up in Photoshop and SCC MediaGrid.
Can Date Created be typed straight into field in Aperture?...Very important when pics go into archive on a server.
Also if I hit Return key in a Metadata Caption, to type on the next line, both lines will appear as one with a small square in-between them when viewed on SCC MediaGrid on a Windows PC.
Thanks in anticipation.

Nick I don't generallt use the IPTC metadata, so I'm not sure I will be too much help.
What version of Aperture are you using? I tried both things and I didn't have any problems with the latest version of Aperture on my Mac.
I was able to enter a date into "Date Created" both with and without the time-zone adjustment. Can you tell us the exact string you tried to enter into the "Date Created" and exactly when you get the error? I tried to enter my time zone (eastern US) as "-5:00", but Aperture wouldn't let me enter the 5 and popped up the error message when I typed that key. I had to use "-05:00".
As for the caption, when I hit return, Aperture ends my edit. I cannot reproduce your described behavior of actually getting a new-line into the field. I suspect your problem (although I don't know how you get to your problem) is one of the following:
1) The IPTC standard doesn't tell if the software should use a Unix-style end-of-line (which is a line-feed), or a DOS/Windows style end-of-line (which is carriage-return followed by line-feed). Aperture may put in the Unix-style and your Windows programs don't know what to do with it.
2) The IPTC standard does indicate the end-of-line style, but either Aperture or your other programs don't follow it.
or
3) IPTC Metadata doesn't actually support end-of-line, so Aperture should not allow you to enter multiple lines, but it has a bug so it does allow you to do that.
Can you tell us where exactly you are editing the caption? I tried it in the inspector pane (on the left) in the "Metadata" tab, and then I hit the "IPTC" button at the bottom of the tab.
nathan

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I want to sort images from two different cameras, but the time was set wrong on one of the cameras. I need to match the time. In order to do that I need to change the exif "date created" on all of the images from that camera by 1 hour. Is this possible?

Applescript to take a file name element to change Date Created

This so beyond me but I have been led to believe is can be done. Can anyone help me please?
I have thousands of archive files. ALL of these files' names start with the date in dd-mm-yy format. eg. 31-01-11 File Name.pdf or 25-12-09 Filename-02.pdf
I would like to be able to drag a folder onto an application and for that app to search through the folder and all sub-folders, for these files and change the files' Date Created to the date at the start of the filename.
This feels so easy to type but I fear much more complicated to do however I do thank you very much in anticipation for your help.
Best wishes
John

Hello
Here's something you might try if the problem is still open.
It uses SetFile(1) command in Developer Tools, which you need to have intalled.
cf.
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/m an1/SetFile.1.html
It can set creation date to any date between 1970-01-01 to 2038-01-18 inclusive.
Simple check for date in file name is implemented so that error log is written to a log file on desktop when given date is considered invalid or SetFile raises error.
One thing to note.
It will process both files and directories under given directory tree in order to process package file. But it is not smart enough to leave the package contents alone, which means if a package contains a file or directory with name matching the pattern, it's creation date will be also changed.
Minimally tested under OSX 10.2.8 at hand.
But NO WARRANTIES of any kind. Please use it on test folder first.
Good luck,
H
--SCRIPT
on open aa
main(aa)
end open
on run
open ((choose folder) as list)
end run
on main(aa)
list aa : alias list of source directories
set logf to (path to desktop)'s POSIX path & "creationdate_error_log" & (current date)'s time & ".txt"
repeat with a in aa
set a to a as alias
if (a as Unicode text) ends with ":" then -- directory
set p to a's POSIX path's text 1 thru -2 -- posix path without trailing /
set sh to "path=" & p's quoted form & ";
logf=" & logf's quoted form & ";
find "$path" -name '[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]*' -print0 | while read -d $'\0' f;
do
fn=${f##*/};
dd=${fn:0:2}; ((d=10#$dd));
mm=${fn:3:2}; ((m=10#$mm));
yy=${fn:6:2}; ((y=10#$yy));
if [[ ($d -ge 1 && $d -le 31) && ($m -ge 1 && $m -le 12) && ($y -ge 70 || $y -le 38) ]]; then
if [[ $y -ge 70 ]]; then
cc=19;
else
cc=20;
fi
res=$(/Developer/Tools/SetFile -d "$mm/$dd/$cc$yy 00:00" "$f" 2>&1);
if [[ -n $res ]]; then
echo "# $res ; failed for : $f" >> $logf;
fi
else
echo "# invalid date in name : $f" >> $logf;
fi
done"
do shell script sh
end if
end repeat
end main
--END OF SCRIPT

Change "Date Created" on File Folders

What is the easiest way to change or alter the "Date Created" on file folders - To a date that is 6 months older? (OS 9.1)
I need to store my photos in a single large chronologically ordered file. Some of them are sourced from scanned photos and some are received in emails from folks.
I want to store them in the same date order as the day the photos were taken and NOT the day I filed them.
Thanks.........Robert

Neil and Don,
I figured out a way to allow me to change the "Date Created" to any date I desired.
1. Open "Date & Time" file in "Control Panels".
2. Set the date desired (i.e. 6 months earlier.)
3. Then Close "Date & Time"
4. Now in (finder) click on "Command + N",
This creates an "untitled file folder" on the desktop
with the newly selected "Date Created".
5. Give the new file folder the name desired.
6. Drag the desired files to the newly created file folder
and drop them.
7. Trash the OLD Date Created Folder.
8. Remember to go back to "Date Created" in "Control
Panels" and change back to the current date.
The above took care of my original question; But, I decided to use the same technique to change the "FILE" date created,
rather than the "FILE FOLDER".
I opened my digital camera software and took a ".jpg" photo file and did a "Save As" while "Date & Time" were in the altered state. My .jpg photo file now has the new "Date Created".
I know that Niel and Don are completely aware of such a technique, But, I figured other forum members may find this method useful.
Thanks for all of your continuing help........Robert

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I like the way I can sort photos by date order in iPhoto as it helps me find photos easily. However, the problem arises when my scanned images from 2003, for example, appear under August 2005!
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Glad that helped Tim.
To answer your question. Yes, you would have to export the scanned files out of iPhoto and reimport for iPhoto to reorganize using the new creation date.
As you outlined, I usually drag the photos out of iPhoto to the desktop or a "Scanned Photos" folder, etc. Then move the photos that are in iPhoto to iPhoto's trash (of course you will lose keywords, etc). This way they are out of the library. I then would make the date changes on the files dragged out of iPhoto, and then finally drag them back into iPhoto for importing.
Plus you can always organize the photos into separate folders after assigning the new dates so when importing, your roll names will be created as well. After importing, assign your keywords to the "new" pictures.
I just upgraded to iPhoto 6 about 10 days ago and never specified roll names in iPhoto5. The Year/Month/Day organization was fine with me. Keywords are my big thing and I really didn't care how iPhoto decided to house my photos. But after seeing the new iPhoto 6 directory structure, I ended up Viewing by Roll and assigning roll names, spliting where needed, etc).
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PSE11: Editor changes Date Created?

PSE11 on Win 7.
I take pictures with my iPhone.
Photostream them to my Windows PC.
I copy the ones I want to keep from my Photostream Folder to a 'permanent' folder. (My understanding is PhotoStream only keeps 1,000 photos.)
The dates in the Photostream and permanent folder are the same.
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Shouldn't the original creation date and time be maintained? I thought this happened for my other images.
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OS X lion changes "Date Created" for old files that I edit or update.

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Help! Bridge Changing my created dates

Oh dear ... I am just learning Bridge and into the Keywords area. I have been adding some Keywords into my photos and occasionally rotating a photo. All was going well, then suddenly the Date Created started changing to today's date ... what am i doing wrong?????
I'm in Win Vista everything current with the updates and using CS4.
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Sherry - Both links still work for me, but I copied post #7 on second link about lightroom for you. Hope this works for you.
John O'Connor - 12:07pm Jan 30, 08 PST (#7 of 13) Edited: 30-Jan-2008 at 11:08am
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(take a look at Exif specification, http://www.exif.org/specifications.html.
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See that faq from John R Ellis:
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Any ideas on how I can get iPhoto to do this correctly?
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I have been als been plagued by LR displaying the capture time to be, say 3 AM (03:00), when I know I took the picture at 1 PM (13:00). I decided to try and see why this happens. With the help of Phil Harvey's exiftool, I can see that my Canon cameras embed the time into the EXIF data without any time zone information i.e.: Date/Time Taken = 2008:04:02 16:09:23.
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