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January 29, 2023
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"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:

 

  1. "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.)
  2. "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.
  3. "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?
  4. "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?
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