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From: PeoplesChoice on 8 Aug 2010 11:44
On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 07:38:58 -0700, Sir F. A. Rien
<jaSPAMc(a)gbr.online.com> wrote:

>PeoplesChoice(a)Chicago.net found these unused words:
>
>>This might be a little off-topic, but I don't know where else to go for
>>help. I have a digital camera and there is a ton of metadata attached to
>>each file. One of these is "Date Created". I assume this is the date
>>the photo was taken. When these files are copied from the SD card to a
>>folder on my hard drive, that date changes from the date the photo was
>>taken to the current date. The "Date Created" on the card remains the
>>same - but once I copy the files to the hard drive, I can no longer sort
>>them by "Date Taken" (because, now, the date is that of the day they were
>>copied over to my hard drive). In other words, the dates are all the
>>same. Is there some way around this phenomenon?
>
>Try 'Move" [hold shift key as you drag the selection] as against "Copy".


Will try later today. However, I don't want to remove the files from my
card at this time.

From: tony cooper on 8 Aug 2010 12:04
On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 10:42:56 -0500, PeoplesChoice(a)Chicago.net wrote:

>I will reply after looking into this a little more. Thanks.....
>
>On Sat, 07 Aug 2010 22:40:43 -0400, tony cooper
><tony_cooper213(a)earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 07 Aug 2010 20:41:54 -0500, PeoplesChoice(a)Chicago.net wrote:
>>
>>>This might be a little off-topic, but I don't know where else to go for
>>>help. I have a digital camera and there is a ton of metadata attached to
>>>each file. One of these is "Date Created". I assume this is the date
>>>the photo was taken. When these files are copied from the SD card to a
>>>folder on my hard drive, that date changes from the date the photo was
>>>taken to the current date. The "Date Created" on the card remains the
>>>same - but once I copy the files to the hard drive, I can no longer sort
>>>them by "Date Taken" (because, now, the date is that of the day they were
>>>copied over to my hard drive). In other words, the dates are all the
>>>same. Is there some way around this phenomenon?
>>
>>You haven't mentioned what software is doing the sorting and how your
>>software names the images.
>>
>>When I upload images from the SD card, my images are named by the
>>software (Adobe Bridge, in my case) as a number representing the date
>>the actual image was taken. ie: 20100707_001. I use FastStone Image
>>View for sorting, and it sorts by file name so my sort is by date
>>taken.
>>
>>If I later alter a file in Photoshop, the file name remains the same
>>and I still sort by date. If I create two versions from the same
>>image, I name the second version 20100707_001a. I still can sort by
>>date.
>>
>>If your software names the file the same as the shot date, whatever
>>else you do to the file doesn't change that.

Check out the free FastStone Image Viewer http://www.faststone.org/

It's an excellent viewer, and will sort files by file name, re-name
files, move or copy files, etc. Even if you name a file with a name
that is not the date, you can view the "date shot" by making the image
full screen (double-click on the thumbnail) and then move the cursor
to the right side of the screen. Files and Attributes will pop up,
and this is a form of the EXIF data and shows the date shot.

Hovering over the thumbnail will show a date, but the date the shot
was modified.


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Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida
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