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Giuseppe24180875zl1q
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March 11, 2023
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Lightroom change date when export

  • 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
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Jim WildeCommunity Expert
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March 11, 2023

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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March 11, 2023

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

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Giuseppe24180875zl1qAuthor
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March 11, 2023

What's the origin of that file? It's probably not an SOOC (straight out of a camera) image, but however it was created it has no EXIF information at all. Which means it has no original capture date, so when you export it the actual export time and date is all that can be shown as the "capture date". This is what the EXIF panel looks like in Lightroom Classic:

 

 

That's exactly how I would expect it to look if I imported an image which was created by a previous export with "Copyright Only" selected in the Metadata section of the export settings. 


you have been very clear, in the next few days I will do some tests so as not to have problems in the future. Thanks again

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