You can also see the two different dates in finder, as shown in the screenshot with finder in column view. (Depending on your system version, if you export unmodified original from photos, you will usually get a file with the same creation date as the image) This won't change when you copy / move the file. The image metadata is kept inside the file, as exif and IPTC data. The File metadata is kept in the file system, and represents when that copy of the file is created or modified The image metadata inside the file (which you can view in preview with the inspector window, iptc tab) will show the image capture date. If you copy a file the copies creation date will normally be set to the date the file was copied. You need to distinguish between the file metatdata (information about the file) and the image metadata (information about the image in the file) (You need to have enough space on your mac to download all the photos from iCloud)Īre you mixing up file creation date with image metadata? Then open the new library - go into photos preferences (general tab), and click "use as system photos library"įinally in photos preferences iCloud tab, set it up as the final screenshot. Name it somthing.photoslibrary, and locate it in your pictures folder. Hold down the option key while starting photos, and click "create new". If you don't have enough space on your mac, you might need to create this on an external drive (formatted APFS or MacOS extended) You can then export everything from that library using the photos app file>export - or better file>export unmodified originals - then you will have all the images from iCloud in any folder you want, complete with image capture dates in the exif. If you create a new empty library, set it to be the system library, and turn on iCloud photos, it will download everything you have in iCloud to this new library. By far the best way of doing this is to sync to your mac using icloud. You say everything is in iCloud and you want to get it out. Other data is also showing file system data, not exif data (not surprising as the date is not in the exif. Have a look also in the TIFF tab there may be a capture date in there that is correct. I don't use air drop - perhaps this is the reason □. (air drop is a simultaneous export from phone photos app, and transfer via wife - who knows what that is doing. It's possible the air drop process stripped it out. The exif data doesn't show any creation date at all. The details on your computer are showing file system dates (created modified opened). Dated pictures are SO important, especially when you have growing kids!! :'(((((Īir drop is not a drag drop from one storage to another (as you described, I assume using finder in which you said the data was changed) If I'm not able to download my pictures, and keep the dates they were taken in the file, I'm almost tempted to go with an android for my next phone. I'm not trying to be dramatic, but this may push me away from Apple. I had to buy extra storage on my iCloud because I haven't yet found a successful way to get my pictures off of it. I talked to Apple and they said there is no way to retain the meta data and if I wanted to, I could edit each photo's data individually. HOWEVER, anytime I try it, no matter what way I choose (click and drag, using the export button with different options selected, exporting from the iCloud photos website, etc) the metadata does not stay!!!! The dates the pictures were taken show up FINE in my phone/iCloud, however, as soon as I move the picture, the dates reset to the current date or close to. For the longest time I have been trying to figure out how to export pictures from my iPhone/iCloud to an external hard drive.
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