
but it's too late is a plug-in actually (from John Beardsworth, called "Capture Time to Exif") but when I played with that maybe a year ago (when I was still using LR6) it appeared that as this method also changes the file from the 'outside' (with Exiftool). I know: next time I should change that 'date taken' field BEFORE importing into LR. should pictures taken in a certain data-range? Wouldn't it be nice than if one could search and filter in LR to e.g. Which amazes me a bit as I'm guessing more LR users work with many scanned and therefore older photos. There's tools like "Search Replace Transfer" (from the same author as mentioned above) that show this is possible but I have yet to find the real solution. Somehow, the change should be made from unside LR. LR will flag this and opt to either import the outside metadata change (which destroys my edit info - and that is not what I want) or discard the external info and keep the existing LR metadata (which discards the external date change).

There is a plug-in actually (from John Beardsworth, called "Capture Time to Exif") but when I played with that maybe a year ago (when I was still using LR6) it appeared that as this method also changes the file from the 'outside' (with Exiftool).

internall with a plug-in or maybe using 'standard functionality' - I'm new and come from LR6, now using the latest LRC) to change this somehow without impacting edit history? Most brilliant would be if the date could be automatically read from my filename somehow.Īny suggestion would be very much appreciated. I'd like to change that, and that is possible external to LR but that resets the edit history (and I do NOT want that). Problem is that "Picture Taken" metadata reflects the date the picture was scanned.

show all pictures that were taken in 1936. Now I'd really like to use a filer and e.g. I edited / improved the files in LR over time.

a grand - grand parent was taken, so sometimes names look like 1901 _01.TIFF or 1952 01 _06.TIFF. Obviously, I don't always know when a picture of e.g. I have alread renamed the files, using a syntax with the following template (I do that for all my photos/pictures): YYYY MM DD - HHMMSS (with options _# appended). Obviously, these were originally scanned and imported into my LR Catalog as TIF files. I have a collection with also many older family pictures (dating as far back as around 1900).
