Image Modify Date?

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June 26, 2019
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Hello,

I have several virtual copies and have lost track which one was the last one I worked on -- Is there a way to see a modified date? I couldn't find one in the metadata, nor could I find any info online? seems like a useful thing to have, but maybe doesn't exist in Lightroom?

Best,

R

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richardplondon

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You can Sort a group of images - a folder or a Collection based view of the library - by "Edit Time". That will put whichever image version has the latest modifications either first, or last, in sequence - depending on your sort direction. A text filter referring to part of the source file name can narrow the view down to comparing only the variations on this one particular photo.

Obviously making any edit change to any of these image versions will immediately make that become the most recently edited one.

romebot3000Author

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I figured it out, thanks, but my results are not as expected... what counts as an edit? just opening a file? Specifically, the images I was adjusting for print I marked purple, of which I have a couple that i was trying to figure out which one was the last/final edit. but a couple blue-marked images are ahead of it, thought I did not work on those ones at all (though I may have looked at them, but even that not sure I did).. what reasons would those files be ahead of the others (and this is the same for many files I worked on).

romebot3000Author

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You don't "open a file" (an image file) in Lightroom - what you open, is a whole Catalog. So simply viewing an image, and zooming in and out etc, and then going to another image has not acted as any significant event for that picture - all the images within a given Catalog are available for viewing all of the time.

I don't know which way you have the pictures sorted, newest edit first or newest edit last, but there are many reasons why images may have jumped position in this sort sequence. Changing the appearance of an image in any way, or changing what any of its own organisational attributes are - which includes applying a new colour label or a keyword, say - has been an actual event for that particular picture: resetting its latest Edit Time, to whenever this action happened.

thanks!

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