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Automatically refile all photos that have the date creation date changed.

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October 11, 2023
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How can I do this?

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Correct answer JohanElzenga

You can do this semi-automatically. Make sure you change the dates before you do other things, that will be best:

1: Select all the photos and change the date. Note you can let Lightroom write date changes into the original file!

2: Export all the photos 'as original'. This will export them with an XMP sidecar file, so the date change will be in there if you did not write it to file.

3: Delete all the selected photos from the catalog and from disk.

4: Import the exported photos back into the catalog using your normal dated folder destination setup.

5: If you always change the file name on import using the capture date, also do so with the imported photos (you may need to use an adapted template).

JohanElzenga

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You can do this semi-automatically. Make sure you change the dates before you do other things, that will be best:

1: Select all the photos and change the date. Note you can let Lightroom write date changes into the original file!

2: Export all the photos 'as original'. This will export them with an XMP sidecar file, so the date change will be in there if you did not write it to file.

3: Delete all the selected photos from the catalog and from disk.

4: Import the exported photos back into the catalog using your normal dated folder destination setup.

5: If you always change the file name on import using the capture date, also do so with the imported photos (you may need to use an adapted template).

-- Johan W. Elzenga

Rob_Cullen

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It would be useful to have a plugin for this purpose.

Currently my method is to filter photos for the 'new' date and simply drag the selected photos to an appropriate existing 'date' folder. Not terribly difficult.

If a folder does not already exist for the 'new' date- my procedure is this-

1) Filter photos for a Date (the new creation date)

2) Select all photos

3) [Right-Click] on a 'parent' folder for which you want to create a dated sub-folder

4) Choose [Create Folder Inside"xxxx"...]

5) Answer the prompts - New Folder name. Include selected photos. Create.

Done! New Folder created. Photos automatically moved to the new folder.

Also not a terribly onerous a task.

I use this method for my many scanned film photos from the 90's. Change their creation date- Move them to an appropriate dated folder (eg. 1999-12-01, etc).

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.3, Photoshop 27.5, ACR 18.3, Lightroom 9.3, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.3 .

PhilBurtonAuthor

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Rob,

That's pretty much what I do today, manually of course, but that method becomes onerous if there are a lot of different dates involved.

PhilBurtonAuthor

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I posted too soon. If I use a date-based folder structure and if I change the creation date of a photo, can I select affected photos and have Lightroom move them to the correct YYYY-MM-DD folder.

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Short answer. NO! And there were no other replies, because I suspect that this qestion highlights a missing capability in LrC.

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