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manugoyal
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3 years ago

Photos is not sorting all images by their taken/created date

Hi. I uploaded a folder of photos to Dropbox, and was hoping to view them chronologically by their taken/created date. It seems like some photos are sorted correctly by this value, but other photos a...
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manugoyal
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

Thanks for the suggestion @Vicker! I checked the times for the same files on my phone, and they are both showing up as november, just as on desktop. So that may not be the issue.

 

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3 years ago

You may want to give it a try to edit the date and time, though, and see if there's any effect on the sorting order.

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    manugoyal
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    3 years ago

    Ah good idea. I did try this, and unfortunately it just seems to bump the photos to the front of the "December 2023" bucket, rather than putting it in the correct month.

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