[Solved] Google Photos incorrectly sorts images
Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2019 12:38 pm
Google Photos sorts some images with valid EXIF dates incorrectly. Do you have experience which metadata field might cause this and how to fix it?
I have scanned 1000 old photos as .tif, edited and exported as .jpg from Lightroom. Renamed and inserted Captions, Keywords, locations, ratings and EXIF dates with GC.
I want to publish them to relatives via Google Photos (the best but far from perfect free or even commercial solution I have found for this task).
But Google Photos incorrectly sorts some random old images as newish. I have experienced this in my previous projects and then, as a brutal workaround, have zapped ALL metadata and copied all metadata from a backup image with GC. But I’d rather not do this with all those otherwise perfect 1000 images.
I haven’t yet tested which field Google Photos might use instead of the correct EXIF date when sorting the images. Yesterday I quickly glanced one offending image with exiftool and there was a suspicious "digital creation date" and there seemed to be an exiftool command (*) to zap it or copy EXIF date to it.
Before I go and zap all metadata or do a thorough test to find the root and fix for the problem, I’d like to hear if someone else already has an explanation and a fix for this. Which metadata should I try to zap or modify with GC without touching important fields? Does Lightroom export unnecessary newish fields for this workflow?
* http://u88.n24.queensu.ca/exiftool/foru ... pic=8077.0
I have scanned 1000 old photos as .tif, edited and exported as .jpg from Lightroom. Renamed and inserted Captions, Keywords, locations, ratings and EXIF dates with GC.
I want to publish them to relatives via Google Photos (the best but far from perfect free or even commercial solution I have found for this task).
But Google Photos incorrectly sorts some random old images as newish. I have experienced this in my previous projects and then, as a brutal workaround, have zapped ALL metadata and copied all metadata from a backup image with GC. But I’d rather not do this with all those otherwise perfect 1000 images.
I haven’t yet tested which field Google Photos might use instead of the correct EXIF date when sorting the images. Yesterday I quickly glanced one offending image with exiftool and there was a suspicious "digital creation date" and there seemed to be an exiftool command (*) to zap it or copy EXIF date to it.
Before I go and zap all metadata or do a thorough test to find the root and fix for the problem, I’d like to hear if someone else already has an explanation and a fix for this. Which metadata should I try to zap or modify with GC without touching important fields? Does Lightroom export unnecessary newish fields for this workflow?
* http://u88.n24.queensu.ca/exiftool/foru ... pic=8077.0