If you're going to give "advice" to people please warn them first when your suggestion will mean dataloss and database corruption. You can go to the Photo App in finder, right click (control-click) and choose "show contents", then navigate your way through the "Master" folder and find the original file, then drag and drop it to the folder you want it in. To sort on the Photo date you'll need to use a photo app. In other words, the OS only notes when the file was created on its file system. So, your photo has the correct date, and so does the file, but they are different things. Generally, OS's don't keep track of the date the file was originally created if it was created on a different system. The problem is that the Finder doesn't work with Exif. The File date is - quite accurately - reported as the date of Export. When you export from iPhoto to the Finder new file is created containing your Photo (and its Exif). Photo applications like Photos, iPhoto, Aperture, Lightroom, Picasa, Photoshop etc get their date and time from the Exif metadata. Tap the menu button at the top left (marked by three horizontal lines). Regardless if what the file date says, this is the actual time recorded by the camera. How do I view the modified date of a file or folder Open the Dropbox app. The date and time that your camera snapped the Photograph is recorded in the Exif metadata. Photographs have also got both Exif and IPTC metadata. If you want them to apply to all folders, click Use as Defaults at the bottom of the window. At the moment, the view settings you’ve configured only apply to the current folder. Click the Sort By menu and choose the sort order, such as Date Added. Click the View menu and choose Show View Options. The problem with File metadata is that it can easily change as the file is moved from place to place or exported, e-mailed, uploaded etc. In Finder, open the folder, which contains the files you want to sort. This tells you nothing about the contents of the file, just the File itself. There are two kinds of metadata involved when you consider jpeg or other image file. The Finder is, after all, a file manager not a photo manager, like Lightroom. A calendar will pop up and you can select a date or enter a date range to search. In the top right corner you will see a box that says Search and has a magnifying glass next to it. Click a folder to be searched or select This PC. It just isn't shown in Mac's Finder (why?)īecause the Finder doesn't support Exif, which is photographic metadata, only file metadata. Open File Explorer or type it into Cortana.