For one thing, HFS+ stores several other file-related timestamps in its file system, including those of the last archive, last metadata change, & last access. Since the file creation & modification timestamps are metadata stored in the file system, not in the photo file itself, there could be unintended consequences or complications if Photos did this. It would be nice if exported photos used the EXIF creation date as the file creation/modification date, but that's not what it does. Unfortunately, the folder/file organization within Masters makes absolutely no sense (other than the top level of year the photo was taken), so it might be difficult to find a specific photo by just browsing. Don't move or delete anything(!), but you can copy your photos out of the Masters folder individually or in bulk. If you browse to your Photos library in Finder, right-click over it and select Show Package Contents, you can browse the individual files within the library. The library is esentially a custom folder structure container. Is that what you were asking?Īlso, remember that even though your photos are "in" your Photos library, they are still just files on your hard drive/SSD. When you export your jpgs from Photos and then suck them into Lightroom, LR should be intelligent enough to use the embedded EXIF data instead of the file creation/modified date, but I don't have LR, so I can't verify. I made the test with many others photos, taken from different devices (iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, Canon S90) and all have the same problem.ĭid you check your Applications folder for iPhoto? My understanding is that when Photos is installed, iPhoto is removed from the Dock but it is not actually deleted from your Mac. Picture same "A", taken in 3/21/15, now appears as it was taken in 5/12/15 The point is, when I am doing the exportation/importation process, the final photo, inside the new library, just doesn't have the date when the picture was took but the date of the file creation.Įxport: no information about the date when the photo was taken but only the date from file creation/modification (which differs from 3/21/15 to 5/12/15 - yesterday)
Well, I know the diference between the date of the file and the date of the picture was took. Thank you for your answer but unfortunately what you are saying it is not what is happening.ĭid you try to export a photo from Photo App from one library and import it to another library (all libraries managed by Photo App)?