Now you can delete the folder containing your exported images.

Select images and click Import Select or just click Import All New Items. Use the Import view to ensure you’re importing just the images and movies you want. These items will be placed in the Recently Deleted album.Īlso in Photos, choose File > Import and choose the location with your corrected images. In Photos, delete your exported images with Image > Delete X Items. (Three different features in the app may apply depending on how your media’s time has been set.) Launch A Better Finder Attributes to adjust the EXIF data or Finder data as necessary.

Save the images and videos to a location where you’re sure you have enough space.

(You may want to just exclude videos altogether from this and correct their time directly within Photos, in fact.) For Videos, it’s more complicated, because you don’t want to downsize video in the process of fixing the time. Choose Original for Color Profile and Full Size for Photos. Select all the photos and videos set to the wrong date and time.Įxport the media by selecting File > Export > Export X Items. This is a sort of first resort-before you’ve done any work on the images after importing with the wrong datestamps-or a last resort, when you’ve given up on all the work you’ve done in order to fix time organization. However, if you’ve already imported your images into Photos, there are two paths forward, but none of them is without significant drawbacks.Įxport at Full Size and the original color profile. This app can perform a bulk operation to extract the capture date and time from stored metadata and change the file creation date and time to match. If you catch this before importation, you can fix it, using a $15 utility I’ve recommended many times:Ī Better Finder Attributes. Their Mac wound up wiped during repair and they reimported the exported photos, all of which were set to their export date and time. One Macworld reader, for instance, exported everything from their iPhoto library in anticipation of an Apple Store repair, not realizing they should perform a full Time Machine backup or clone the drive. In those situations, importing photos without any additional work will result in images that Photos sets to the date and time of export.

This also normally works correctly unless you have a set of images that were exported from iPhoto or Photos or intentionally or accidentally had its metadata stripped out of it.

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