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File Rename Issue with date

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I have renumbered my imported phone photos due a clash of numbers. My rename is simply Phone_{Date}_{original file name}. However, I noticed that for many photos the date inserted in the name is not the capture date but some later date when the metadata was changed. Is there anyway of forcing it to use the capture date, or are there any other work-arounds (other than individual name changing).
 
Hmm. Sometimes Lr uses that date if it can't find capture date. Are you sure the image has a capture date in exif in the proper place? Some of my iPhone images come from apps that strip it.

You might have to look at the image in Lr and then use "edit capture time..." to correctly set the date, then see if the rename works as expected.
 
LR definitely recognises the capture date. In fact it is because LR was showing the capture date that made me realise the file numbering was awry.
 
There was a capture date bug fixed in today's 7.1 release, so that would be a good place to start.
 
In case this is relevant, since video files have no standard way of recording capture date (or much of anything else, darn it all), I've noticed that when I rename videos within LR involving the capture date, what LR assumes is the capture date is often not so, and it treats videos captured by different devices differently (that's not an Adobe issue, I don't think...it's that different devices record the capture date differently).
 
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