Date for scanned pictures not showing

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December 8, 2022
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I need Date Created to show in my metadata all the time. How do I do that for scanned pics?
If the pic is from a digital camera, all is fine:

For my scanned pics I have no way to show it. What I currently do, is look at the name of the image, then go to my MAC Finder, search for that name, and look at the time stamp of the file. So, I'd like to somehow see the file created timestamp on my Lightroom Metadata. How? I'me pretty sure it was there a few updates ago but no more!

The Metadata Customize Panel also has all kinds of things including the file name, file size etc etc, but not file date. Why? That's what I need!

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F. McLion

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- Mark all fotos needed

- Choose Metadata -> Edit Capture Time

- Select "Change To File Creation Date"

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Ari JaaksiAuthor

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... also, I noticed this is not really helping me, actually. Here is the problem:
I work with film & analog. I print my pictures in silver gelatin in my darkroom. I use LighRoom to manage the inventory of my negatives and often try different editing ideas before going to my dark room. The main use case is as follows:
-find the image I want to print from my LightRoom using keywords
-see the date
-based on that date, find the physical negative from my folders to work on

I've long time ago ran out of space on my MacBookPro, so many of my scans are on an external drive. This trick wont show the date if the file is on an extrenal drive. It shows all kind of things -- incluring the image size for crying out loud 😉 but not the date of the file -- if the right drive is not connected that is.

So unfortuately, this really forces me to go and look at the file name in Mac Folder.

johnrellis

Legend

...I'm scanning the files. My Rolleiflex camera won't embed any EXIF data .... neither does my scanner 🙂 ...

"The problem is, that I don't have the removable disk connected to my MAC. I just need to know the date it was created -- that's all -- so that I can find the physical negative based on the date."

LR doesn't record the file date-created or date-modified in its catalog. When you do Metadata > Edit Capture Time, it reads the file date-created from the file on disk. So if the drive containing the file isn't connected, then Edit Capture Time won't be able to display the file's date-created.

You could connect the drive, select all the photos on it in Library, do Metadata > Edit Capture Time > Change To File's Creation Date, then disconnect the drive. As you import new scans, do the same thing with them. Then you'll be able to sort and search the catalog by date.