Also,
fixed my problem. Thanks to him and others who replied.
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I am trying to use the "sort files into folders by date" command
Here are two files:
Underneath you see the creation date, the modification date and the exif date.
Using the command, the jpg gets properly filed under 6/26 (modification/exif), but the mp4 is put into 7/1 (creation).
This is what I wanted to fix and was fixed by using the suggestion from Joerg.
(sidenote: In this example, the mod and exif are the same, but in my OP, they were different, which threw me off. After testing, I see this is not the usual/relevant case.)
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I am somewhat new to the software. I am using version 12 on a Mac with Monterey.
I have a bunch of photos I manually copied into a folder on an external storage drive from my pixel phone. They are all in one folder.
The folder consists of a series of photos and mp4 files, as show in this image: You will notice that the date created is July 9, the date modified is July 8th, for booth files, but the date captured is different in the 2 formats.
In fact, both the picture and the mp4 were taken on Jul 8th at 4:53 and 4:42, respectively.
All the mp4, in fact, have the July 9th date captures, which is the date I saved them to my external disk. The jpgs have the day I took the picture.
Of course, there are many other files in the folder with different dates, like July 6th, etc. All in one folder.
Naturally, I want to sort all these files into subfolders. Running this command works fine for the JPG files, but the mp4s do not get put into th date I expect (aka the date they were taken) but are all put into one folder...the last one.
I imagine I need to update the dates somehow but:
a. do not quite know what I need to change and what to change it to.
b. how to do that successfully.
I would appreciate any assistance someone could offer. I am not a professional photographer, so I don't know the correct interpretation of all the different dates, nor how the software determines what date to use for the sort.
Thank you in advance.