photoal
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Sorry for posting on what is maybe a repetitive topic but I've been searching Google for hours and can't find ANY decent explanation for this.
I have just moved my entire photo library (145K photos) from Lightroom on PC to Lightroom on MAC. This involved reformatting my external drives to HSF+, copy files back to the externals and then importing to Lightroom to re-sort the photos into the correct folders.
I migrated the catalog with no issues and all keyword etc are good.
Most of the imports are fine (well I've only done 70K so far) but there are a huge number of files which have been imported based on Modified Date not Created Date (see screen shot 20.57.57).
I've looked at other variables and excluded them:
1) Other files with modified dates different to capture date (see screen shot 21.18.11)
2) Not based on particular camera (iPhone etc)
3) Correct EXIF information is always shown
4) No file name processing was performed during import (see screen shot 21.20.47)
Things I can't figure if it makes a difference
1) I am moving these files from one folder to another on the SAME external drive
Clearly with this number of photos I can't possible sort this manually!
Please help I'm going crazy trying to figure this out and REALLY want to apply my backup to this drive asap as this is now my only copy of the photos (1.2TB in total)
Thanks in advance and apologies if someone has already figured this out - a pointer would be appreciated.
I have just moved my entire photo library (145K photos) from Lightroom on PC to Lightroom on MAC. This involved reformatting my external drives to HSF+, copy files back to the externals and then importing to Lightroom to re-sort the photos into the correct folders.
I migrated the catalog with no issues and all keyword etc are good.
Most of the imports are fine (well I've only done 70K so far) but there are a huge number of files which have been imported based on Modified Date not Created Date (see screen shot 20.57.57).
I've looked at other variables and excluded them:
1) Other files with modified dates different to capture date (see screen shot 21.18.11)
2) Not based on particular camera (iPhone etc)
3) Correct EXIF information is always shown
4) No file name processing was performed during import (see screen shot 21.20.47)
Things I can't figure if it makes a difference
1) I am moving these files from one folder to another on the SAME external drive
Clearly with this number of photos I can't possible sort this manually!
Please help I'm going crazy trying to figure this out and REALLY want to apply my backup to this drive asap as this is now my only copy of the photos (1.2TB in total)
Thanks in advance and apologies if someone has already figured this out - a pointer would be appreciated.
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