Lightroom Classic: Incorrectly Sorting Files in Grid View

Thanks to all who responded.  The problem (of my own making) is now fixed.

@fredf_6hou7t9fecc1c If you click on the image on this page, you'll get the low res mush version.  Once that comes up though, you should be able to click the download button in the upper left to get a version you can actually read.

@jeffgoulden Changing the date is easy.  You basically just need to do what I was telling you before, with some minor tweaks.

Select all the images that have the mistaken 2020 date in the grid view.

In the menu bar, click Metadata --> Click Edit Capture Time

Choose Adjust to a specified date and time

Change the year in the Corrected Time field from 2020 to 2021 and leave everything else - month, day, & time - unchanged.

Click Change. 

That will increase the year by 1 on all the selected images while leaving the month, day & time unchanged.

Thanks!!  I can't read it either.  The dates are definitely wrong and I believe that is what caused the problem. Duh, 2020 sorts before 2021.  I hope I can change these.

Greetings,

I was reading the thread with interest.

To TomM: how did you see the dates?

I downloaded the image of the grid. All I see is low res mush???

Thanks.

Jeff:

I hope the error in your dates is your solution.

Best regards.

Oh crap!!  Thanks for spotting that.  I change my file prefix every month on my camera and must have messed up the year.  I'll have to see if I can edit the capture date on those pictures.  Wow!!

@jeffgoulden Look closer...the year shown on your 8/2 pics is 2020.  The 7/27 pics are 2021.

Tom, thanks for the help but I'm a bit uneasy making the changes you suggest.  I did look through all my preferences and didn't see anything related to sorting the grid view.  Here's a screen shot.  As you can see I'm sorting in ascending order by capture time.  As you can also see, my pictures from today 8/2/21 are sorted in front of my pictures from 7/27/21.  What's ironic is that within each day, the pictures are in correct sequence.  The only change is that we rolled over from July to August.

There have been plenty of date/time issues that have popped up over the years.  Some bugs have been squashed, some continue to live forever and some have gone away only to return later.  The question is, what are you running into?

A quick thing to try would be to reset your LrC preferences.  It never ceases to amaze me how many weird behaviors that fixes.  Here's a how-to: https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/setting-preferences-lightroom.html

If that doesn't help, try this - select all the images in the grid view and in the menu bar, click Metadata --> Edit Capture Time --> Chose Adjust to a specified date and time --> leave the Corrected Time field unchanged --> Click Change.  That will force an update to the capture time field.  It should be harmless, but if you're uneasy about it at all, just make a backup of your catalog and the images before trying it.

If neither helps, grabbing some screenshots showing what you're seeing in the grid view, the sort order you have selected and the capture time of some images that are showing out of order would probably be the next step.

This is frustrating.  Thanks for trying to help.  Whether it was the result of an update or not, I need a fix for the problem.  Right now, all I can do is put files into a special collection and drag them into the correct order based on capture time.  My workflow is based on sorting files by date and time and if I have to employ this workaround it really slows me down.

I also posed the same question on the "Lightroom Queen" but have yet to get any responses.

By the way I know about predictability of computers.  I was an IT professional for over 40 years and sometimes things happen that you can't explain.  🙂