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DESPERATELY NEED PHOTO SORTING HELP!!!

cinna

cinna

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I´m reaching out to all you techie savvy peeps around in hope that you can help me.
I saved all my photos to an external hard drive but it didn't´t save them in their date albums. So now all my photos from like 2007 to 2016 are all mixed up! :hairpol
I tried using the settings on my Mac but their sorting is a joke.
SO - my question is: Do you know any program that I could copy them all to that can make a little magic so I can get them sorted again in the right order??

Please :helpy!
 
Can you sort by date taken? That might help you a little bit--it did me, when I somehow did something quite similar but I use a PC.

Hopefully you get everything figured out quickly and reorganized painlessly!
 
I tried date taken but it doesn't´t work either..... :(
 
I know it will take longer but can you re save individual year by year? say transfer all the 2007 photos to a folder in the ehd for 2007 etc.. It will take longer but at least it will be easier than all jumbled together.
 
lmccandless said:
Do you have Lightroom? It would read the EXIF data and sort them into Smart Collections for you by date.
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This is my method. When you import into LR .... there is a panel on the right side called Destination. Under organization you can select BY DATE and then chose the Date Format. I love it and don't have to think about anything other than maybe a few keywords when I move everything into LR.

And if you don't already have LR ... you can see if it would work for you by trying it out (usually there is a 30 day trial period). Even if you don't keep LR ... the import function will MOVE or COPY files from one location to another for you. So You can Move or copy them into an EHD and have them all nice and sorted like Laura mentioned. It is fabulous.
 
I don't have a MAC but this was what I was thinking too...

cfile said:
I know it will take longer but can you re save individual year by year? say transfer all the 2007 photos to a folder in the ehd for 2007 etc.. It will take longer but at least it will be easier than all jumbled together.
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bestcee said:
What sorting have you tried? I wonder if it's trying to sort by date modified instead of date taken?
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Ditto.

And I've never used LR, but y'all are making me think I should, esp. since I pay for it with my PS CC subscription. And it sounds like that might solve your problem and make organizing super easy!
 
Tree City said:
y'all are making me think I should, esp. since I pay for it with my PS CC subscription
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bestcee said:
I wonder if it's trying to sort by date modified instead of date taken?
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this was my thought too after the first post, what columns/fields do you have available to sort by on Mac(i'm on a PC - some of the larger folders only have 'date modified' as a field header but in smaller folders if has just 'date') - i can't imagine how frustrated you are atm, Cinna!
 
Tree City said:
well, I guess I'm off to open LR...
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don't let them peer pressure you Sara! (I ditched LR a few years back when i mostly stopped shooting in RAW and dont miss it all that much but if you need to sort a ton of photos it does sound worth it) Make sure you choose to ad it to your subs for the right reasons ;)
 
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bellbird said:
don't let them peer pressure you Sara! (I ditched LR a few years back when i mostly stopped shooting in RAW and dont miss it all that much but if you need to sort a ton of photos it does sound worth it) Make sure you choose to ad it to your subs for the right reasons ;)
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Thank you for the support, Justine! It's included with PS, so I'm not paying extra, thankfully. But I should at least open it up and see if it would work for me.
 
Tree City said:
esp. since I pay for it with my PS CC subscription
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sorry, i didn't read this properly - i read it as 'since i CAN pay for it with my PS CC subscription' - sorry, caffeine loading. I'm on CS6, i didn't buy the latest version of LR back then and haven't gone to CC anything; it does beg the question though if you are paying for it why aren't u using it!?
 
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