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    <p>I checked the thumbnail you sent me in my digikam. It does not
      have any kind of metadata inside, this is why Digikam is using the
      last modification date as creation date. See how in digikam, in
      the properties tab it doesn't show anything about the photography
      information.<br>
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    <p><img moz-do-not-send="false" src="cid:part1.44AA411B.0CB7BFE9@hotmail.com" alt="original
        image" width="1028" height="603"></p>
    <p>As a comparision, this is how it looks when it has some metadata
      inside:</p>
    <p><img moz-do-not-send="false" src="cid:part2.C90C5D9B.874B5421@hotmail.com" alt="exifmetadata" width="712" height="640"></p>
    <p>In your case, the only way would be to manually edit the metadata
      (using the metadata editor or the date and time tool) and enter
      the EXIF Original time and date.</p>
    <p>I hope I've helped.</p>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">El 8/1/22 a les 11:54, dm29 ha escrit:<br>
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      <p>Thank you. I checked it. See this example. Took in 2013 but
        "created" last 30/12/2021 with many others, whatever the reason.
        It seems it checks file creation first in this case.<br>
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      <p><img src="cid:part3.C91176D4.20B9D2B4@hotmail.com" alt="" class="" width="1062" height="498"></p>
      <div class="moz-cite-prefix">El 08/01/2022 a las 16:36, Marc
        Palaus escribió:<br>
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        <div dir="auto">It actually looks at the capture date first in
          the metadata, I have tested it many times. Just edit a file's
          Exif original date time and check it out.
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          <div dir="auto">However, the date can also be present in XMP
            and IPTC metadata, and if they are conflicting I don't know
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          <div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 8, 2022 10:26, Javier Núñez
            Silva <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:doommaster29@hotmail.com" moz-do-not-send="true"><doommaster29@hotmail.com></a>
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                  <p>Thank you Marc. But I need to sort by capture date,
                    not file creation date. I would manually  change it
                    but there are too many elements affected.</p>
                  <p>Anyway, I think digiKam should look the Exif data,
                    not the file properties. Nice if they could change
                    that. Ruins the whole thing for me! I hope there’s a
                    work around.</p>
                  <p>Thank you again.</p>
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                <div dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>De:</b>
                    Digikam-users <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:digikam-users-bounces@kde.org" moz-do-not-send="true"><digikam-users-bounces@kde.org></a>
                    en nombre de Marc Palaus <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:marcpalaus@hotmail.com" moz-do-not-send="true"><marcpalaus@hotmail.com></a><br>
                    <b>Enviado:</b> Saturday, January 8, 2022 4:19:42 PM<br>
                    <b>Para:</b> digiKam - Home Manage your photographs
                    as a professional with the power of open source <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:digikam-users@kde.org" moz-do-not-send="true"><digikam-users@kde.org></a><br>
                    <b>Asunto:</b> Re: [digiKam-users] Sort by date</font>
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                  <div dir="auto">You have to select to sort items by
                    creation date in the top menu. If they still appear
                    last in the list, that means that they do not have
                    metadata inside (or it was overwritten somehow). You
                    can manually enter the date in Exif's "Original date
                    and time" field (either in the metadata editor or in
                    the date tool).
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                    <div>On Jan 7, 2022 21:52, dm29 <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:doommaster29@hotmail.com" moz-do-not-send="true"><doommaster29@hotmail.com></a>
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                        <p dir="ltr">Hi! I recently had to resync my
                          photo collection to a new computer. For <br>
                          some reason a large number of elements had
                          their -file- creation date <br>
                          acordingly changed and, to my surprise, now
                          digiKam list this old pics <br>
                          like recent. Can't I sort them by capture
                          date, as noted in Exif data? I <br>
                          always expected it to work this way! <br>
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                          Thank you so much. <br>
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