[digiKam-users] Sort by date

[Marc Palaus]

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.

original image

As a comparision, this is how it looks when it has some metadata inside:

exifmetadata

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.

I hope I've helped.


El 8/1/22 a les 11:54, dm29 ha escrit:
>
> 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.
>
> El 08/01/2022 a las 16:36, Marc Palaus escribió:
>> 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.
>>
>> However, the date can also be present in XMP and IPTC metadata, and 
>> if they are conflicting I don't know which one has priority
>>
>> On Jan 8, 2022 10:26, Javier Núñez Silva <doommaster29 at hotmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>     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.
>>
>>     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.
>>
>>     Thank you again.
>>
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>>     *De:* Digikam-users <digikam-users-bounces at kde.org> en nombre de
>>     Marc Palaus <marcpalaus at hotmail.com>
>>     *Enviado:* Saturday, January 8, 2022 4:19:42 PM
>>     *Para:* digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional
>>     with the power of open source <digikam-users at kde.org>
>>     *Asunto:* Re: [digiKam-users] Sort by date
>>     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).
>>
>>
>>     On Jan 7, 2022 21:52, dm29 <doommaster29 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>         Hi! I recently had to resync my photo collection to a new
>>         computer. For
>>         some reason a large number of elements had their -file-
>>         creation date
>>         acordingly changed and, to my surprise, now digiKam list this
>>         old pics
>>         like recent. Can't I sort them by capture date, as noted in
>>         Exif data? I
>>         always expected it to work this way!
>>
>>         Thank you so much.
>>
>>
>>
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