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Title: How to export photos and maintain the original creation date in Apple Photos
Post by: HCK on August 15, 2018, 04:05:12 pm
How to export photos and maintain the original creation date in Apple Photos

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<p>What’s an original, you may ask, when we’re dealing with digital data? In Photos for macOS, it comes up when you’re exporting an image or video. Macworld reader Maya has a question related to this, because she knows how to use Photo to adjust the date and time that a piece media was captured, but when she exports an image, the creation date of the file is always that of the export time.</p><p>Photos offers two kinds of exports (as did iPhoto). One essentially creates a new file by translating the image or video in the library into something new. The other copies the original file from the master source media that was imported.</p><p>Look at the File &gt; Export menu in Photos, and you’ll see Export [Quantity] Photo (or Video) and Export Unmodified Original for [Quantity] Photo (or Video).</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3295008/photography/how-to-export-photos-and-maintain-the-original-creation-date-in-apple-photos.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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