Sort Photos by date

After many tragic disk crashes and other issues I am left with 3600 photos in one folder. I want to import these into a new iPhoto 08 library with the photos sorted by date created. When I import the folder is shows as a single event with all the pictures under that date. How do I have iPhoto sort photos with the same creation dates into separate events based on creation dates upon import?

Have you selected the event and used the autosplit event command?
LN

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I've synced my photos to my iPod but within each folder they show up in filename order. I've given each file a name that actually means something, so this is not a useful order for display purposes.
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View -> Sort Photos.

Sorting photos by date/time taken, when date/time created is not an option?

I'm so sorry if this has been answered elsewhere, but I can't find it on Google or in the forums...
I need to sort wedding photos from multiple photographers by date taken so I can sort through the wedding as a full event. Sorting by the date/time the file was created will not suffice because I had to convert all photos from one of my photogs from NEF to DNG (D610 files not compatible with CS5), so the 'date created' for those DNG file is days later than all the other images. Thus, sorting by "date created' batches all the photos from one of my photogs together at the end.
Is there any option in Bridge that will actually read the metadata and sort by the shoot time of the image?
Thanks for any help!

There has been a known bug in PSE9 although only affecting raw images and caused by the Camera Raw 6.4 update. The timestamp gets changed by one hour each time an image is modified. I don’t know if your issue is related but the work around is to revert to ACR 6.3
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/915/cpsid_91582.html
The only other work around is to temporarily switch to folder location view, if your images were imported from a single folder. Click on the display button (near top right in Organizer) to change the browser view. If you click on the folder in the left hand pane the files will normally be in sequential file name order which usually mirrors the date/time taken. From the folder location it’s possible to create an instant album, which can then be used as the basis of a slideshow.

Is it possible to sort photos by date in descending order?

In the new Yosemite Photos app my photos are displayed in ascending order by date. The oldest photos are at the top and I must scroll all the way down to view the newest photos. In iPhoto I was able to change the sorting order so that the newest photos were always at the top. Is there a way to do this in the Photos app?

No, sorry, that sort option is still missing.
You may want to write feedback to Apple, to request this feature:
Apple - Mac OS X - Feedback

Does the IPad Sort Photos on Date if you Strip the EXIF Data ?

....and set the file creation dates on the files so that they are all identical ?
If so, is there an IPad or Mac app that can do this ?

Like I said I don't use iPhoto so I havn't tried it, so I can only go on what http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4221 says :
If you are using iPhoto for Mac OS X, your photos automatically sort on your device in the same order they are sorted in iPhoto or Aperture. Changes made to the sorting of your pictures in your iPhoto or Aperture albums and events will be reflected on the device after syncing.

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In iTunes one can sort the music in a myriad of ways(41 by my count), by virtually every descriptor that can be attached to a music file, once one clicks on the right column heading.
Why not the same in iPhoto (I will put this to iPhoto feed back one more time, as I am sure have many others)? How may years now have people been asking for a "date added" to your database or "size of file" sorting options? Still not here that I know of? Here is about it for iPhoto in Lion OS:
Does anyone have a solution where I can sort through my images by size and/or date added (not date the image was taken)? Thanks.
Still it is a better program than in the past. If it can't find duplicates like iTunes, at least it doesn't import them anymore. There are many other good features, too. I just hoped iPhoto could reach the search/organizing capabilities of iTunes. Thanks again for any help.
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Thanks Terence,
I took your advice and plopped down the 80 bucks for Aperture 3.2.3. And, I appreciate your encouragement.
It unfortunately has been a disaster as I have spent hours trying to get it to work. It is as some others have said "mud slow" on my i7 MBP. I've tried many suggestions found on line to get it to work. The list is long, but none have yet worked. Even doubling my RAM to 8GB has not done it. And, I am only using it on a database of about 2k images. I wanted to test it out before turning my whole database over to it.
Another point; while Aperture does have the features I needed for searches, I have used iPhoto to share, via my web site, original versions of my images with my students using iPhoto's "web export" macros. Unfortunately, Aperture's web export macros do not allow images over 1200 pixels in dimension. So, I've had to export from Aperture (takes forever) back to iPhoto to get the processed images published to the web at the appropriate size.
It's my bad, I should have seen all the people on this discussion group and others across the web who are having similar troubles with their Aperture slowing down. Most seem to blame Lion upgrades. This note is just to warn others that there is risk in buying software without testing a trial version first; Aperture being one of them.
In my 25 years as a Mac user, this is the most troublesome product I have ever purchased. Maybe that is not too bad of a record. I just hope there is a fix on the way for many of us who cannot get it to work.
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LN

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I may be getting confused with what you need here but does going to:
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Andy.

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View Menu -> Sort Photos -> By Date and choose Ascending or Descending.
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In iPhoto if I select View, then Sort Photos by title, how do I stop it reverting to sorting by date when I close iPhoto and re-open it later?

In what mode, Events, Photos or in an Album, are you when you select View ➙ Sort ➙ By Title?
As a first fix attempt try the following:
1 - delete the iPhoto preference file, com.apple.iPhoto.plist, that resides in your
User/Home/Library/ Preferences folder.
2 - delete iPhoto's cache file, Cache.db, that is located in your
User/Home/Library/Caches/com.apple.iPhoto folder (Snow Leopard and Earlier).
or with Mt. Lion from the User/Library/Containers/com.apple.iPhoto/
Data/Library/Caches/com.apple.iPhoto folder
3 - launch iPhoto and try again.
NOTE 1: If you're moved your library from its default location in your Home/Pictures folder you will have to point iPhoto to its new location when you next open iPhoto by holding down the Option key when launching iPhoto. You'll also have to reset the iPhoto's various preferences.
NOTE 2: In Lion and Mountain Lion the Library folder is now invisible. To make it permanently visible enter the following in the Terminal application window: chflags nohidden ~/Library and hit the Enter button - 10.7: Un-hide the User Library folder.
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HT4236 Hello, does anyone have any advice on how to sort photos in an albumn on an Iphone by date of photo? I've ordered them all in my Pictures but then when I sync them across through Itunes, they all end up in a jumble on my phone. Thanks!

Hello, does anyone have any advice on how to sort photos in an albumn on an Iphone by date of photo? I've ordered them all in my Pictures but then when I sync them across through Itunes, they all end up in a jumble on my phone. Thanks!

When viewing an album on the iPhone you can tap "Photos" at the bottom and that will show all photos by date. Unfortunately though it is all photos, not just the album you are currently viewing.
What I have done is the following. On the computer I have a main folder (e.g. iPhone photos) and then make sub-folders within that. Placing photos that will be synched to the iPhone into various subfolders gives quite a bit of organizational capablility. In iTunes when you select the main folder to sync, the sub-folders will show on the iPhone as separate albums. Beyond that, in one case where I really wanted a specific sort within an album I renamed the photos on the computer (something like A-picxxx, B-picxxx) so they sorted on the computer alphabetically in the order I want on the phone. That sort order was maintained after the sync.
Note that each time you sync using iTunes, the non-Camera Roll pictures on the phone will be set to match the current iTunes settings/photos -- so you can experiment.

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I just imported some photos from my friends camera who were on the same trip. However, I noticed that a couple (not all) of his photos are not sorted correctly by date in the Event. A photo from day 3 somehow comes before the photos from day 2. I checked the extended information and the dates on the photo are correct. Has anyone had this problem and know of a solution? Thanks.

It might be of some help to delete the photo cache. Please see this link - http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1314

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