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January 29, 2023
Question
"By Date" menu order in Lighroom Desktop
- January 29, 2023
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This is a minor complaint in the overall scheme of things, but it annoys me every time I use Lightroom Desktop so thought I'd start a thread. It's regarding date sorting under the "All Photos" menu. My complaint is that it is both inconsistent and hard to read. See my attachment for illustration of my points. Specifically:
- "By Date" years are sorted from new at the top to old at the bottom (i.e. reverse chronological order). But then months within a year are sorted with old at the top to newer at the bottom (i.e. the opposite direction, chronological order), and days within a month are also sorted from old to new. This is inconsistent - why not sort everything the same way? A Metadata filter in Lightroom Classic does this correctly and consistently. (Also "Recently Added" menu items are sorted from new to old.)
- "By Date" days within a month are labelled first with the day of the week - who really cares about that, especially when looking at older images? The most important information - the actually date within the month - is put at the end of the date string, where it is harder to read because the dates don't all line up vertically. Again, a Metadata filter in Lightroom Classic does it better - it shows "21 - Saturday", "22 - Sunday". This arrangement would be much easier to read.
- "Recently Added" menu items are named inconsistently. In my attachment the most recent entry is simply labelled "Friday", while other items show actual dates. So I am left mentally trying to figure out what the date was last Friday. Again, why not just label them all the same way?
- "Recently Added" dates are fomatted differently from "By Date" dates - for example "January 22, 11:26 AM" versus "Sunday, Jan 22". Again, why not label these consistently?
