[KPhotoAlbum] Arrange photos by creation date in KPhotoAlbum 4.1.1

[Murray Strome]

Thank you. That did the trick!

Murray

--- On Thu, 6/24/10, Jesper K. Pedersen <blackie at kde.org> wrote:

> From: Jesper K. Pedersen <blackie at kde.org>
> Subject: Re: [KPhotoAlbum] Arrange photos by creation date in KPhotoAlbum 4.1.1
> To: kphotoalbum at kdab.com
> Cc: "Murray Strome" <wmstrome at yahoo.com>, kphotoalbum at kdab.net
> Received: Thursday, June 24, 2010, 8:55 AM
> Maybe the order in the thumbnail
> viewer got broken, try choosing all images, 
> and choose "View->Sort selected by date and time", which
> will reorder them.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> On Thursday 24 June 2010 17:47:04 Murray Strome wrote:
> | I asked this question a couple of years ago:
> | 
> | How do I show photos in order by Creation Date (or Date
> Picture Taken)? The
> | answer then was:
> | 
> | "Upgrade to 3.1.1, then go to Settings -> Configure
> KPA -> Metadata ->
> | Date and in the "Fields to get value from", move
> | "Exif.Photo.DateTimeOriginal" to the very top. Then
> select all your
> | images you want to fix and go to Management -> Re-Read
> Metadata from
> | Files, select *only* "Update date and time" and press
> "Read File Info".
> | All your image dates will be updated."
> | 
> | In my installation of 4.1.1, under Settings >
> Configure KPhotoAlbum there
> | is no "Metadata" setting. As it is now, when I ask to
> View > "Show oldest
> | first" or "Show newest first", the photos are shown in
> some other order
> | than the "Date Original" or "Date Digitized" in the EXIF
> information.
> | 
> | In this particular case, the camera used had an incorrect
> date (in 2008). 
> | I used jhead to correct the date (to May 30, 2010), the
> new date shows in
> | the EXIF data. However, they are still shown in 2008. If
> I look at them
> | with a file browser, the date listed is in 2008.
> | 
> | Is there a new method to get the images shown in the the
> correct order,
> | using the Capture/Original/Digitized date?
> | 
> | Murray

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