Change to Capture Date

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January 19, 2024
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I'm not sure how it happened but somehow the date got changed in my camera from 2024 to 2023. All 364 pictures that I took today had a capture date of 01/18/23. I know that I can't fix the capture time in Lightroom Classic. I know how to fix them one file at a time in Adobe Bridge. Is there any way that I can fix all 364 pictures without having to do it one file at a time? Any ideas would save me a great deal of time and would be greatly appreciated.

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Correct answer JohanElzenga

To build on @johnrellis reply for future readers: In the Lightroom Classic preferences there is an option to write capture time changes to the raw file itself, so not create an xmp sidecar file for it. I do this all the time. It's in the link John gave.

GoldingD

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yes

see: https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/metadata-basics-actions.html

Jeff A. GouldenAuthor

Inspiring

GoldingG, Thanks for responding. I checked out Metadata/Edit Capture Time. It looks like this process creates an .xmp sidecar file. I've never used sidecar files so far in Lightroom so I'm not sure that's the way I want to go. When I tried editing multiple files it adjusted the time as well as the year. The capture time was then off by an hour or so. All I want to adjust is to change the year from 2023 to 2024. Thanks for the suggestion though. I may have to just bite the bullet and edit the time one file at a time using Adobe Bridge.

johnrellis

Legend

For reference by future readers, see my reply to Jeff in his other thread for how to use the Edit Capture Time command and Metadata > Save Metadata To File to accomplish his task:

https://www.lightroomqueen.com/community/threads/change-to-capture-date.49403/post-1327835

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