Lightroom change date when export

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
March 11, 2023
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Good morning everyone.
It often happens to me that when I export photos from my Lightroom library and then import them to Photos on Mac for some, not all, the date taken is changed to the date of the export. I can't understand...

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Jim Wilde

Community Expert

A couple of possibilities:

1. In your export settings you are not including "All Metadata", thus the original capture date is not included in the exported file.

2. The file you are exporting from might not have a valid capture date, i.e. it could be a derivative created elsewhere (e.g. from social media, or from an earlier export that didn't include the capture date at the time of export).

For such images, check in Lightroom before you export that the recorded capture date is what you expect.

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Giuseppe24180875zl1qAuthor

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thanks for the reply but it is none of these cases. The date change is absolutely random on some photos yes on others no

Jim Wilde

Community Expert

What's the file-type of the original images that you are exporting?

By "random" do you mean if you repeatedly export the same file with the same settings then sometimes you'll get a different result in respect of the date? Or do you simply mean that when exporting a bunch of images with the same settings, some will end up with the "wrong" date, but some won't? If the latter, I suggest you upload a copy of one of the affected original files (using WeTransfer or Google Drive or similar sharing apps), then share the link so that the file can be inspected to see if we can figure out what's going wrong.

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