Finder does NOT show date created/date modified for photos

[joehewes]

If this feature is important to you in your photo mamangement, beware.

This info is displayed in Bridge so I will be working with that.

I got spoiled on having that info displayed in Windows Explorer in list form. Very handy for my workflow.

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Joe

 

[bjwynnyk]

Finder does show date created/date modified for photos. Click on the action button the button that looks like a sprocket then click on show view option, then add the column that you want.

 

[joehewes]

I have the column but the info is exactly the same for both date created and date modified columns. That's the problem.

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Joe

 

[jfelbab]

That's not how it works on my Mac running 10.5.2. I see separate dates for created and modified.

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Jim
'There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.'

• • Ansel Adams

 

[noirdesir]

If you do a save as, then a new file is created which has the same entry for modification and creation date. Maybe that is what you have seen. And Bridge might show the EXIF date as the creation date.

 

[joehewes]

In Windows Explorer, even SAVED AS...files hold their original "date photo taken" info. Not so in Finder. The Date Created reflects the date the image was last saved.

OSX 10.5.2.

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Joe

 

[noirdesir]

In Windows Explorer, even SAVED AS...files hold their original "date
photo taken" info. Not so in Finder.

OS X also still holds this data, it simply restricts itself to show only 'file modified' and 'file created' in column view in the Finder. But you can add this attribute to the search criteria in any Finder search. The attribute is still there, but it is no longer identical with the file created date.

In Windows Explorer you can display 37 different columns of attributes for a file (among them the EXIF attribute, 'Date Picture Taken'). In the Finder in OS X, you can only show seven different columns (with 'Date Picture Taken' not among these).

If you have not noticed, in a great lot of aspects, Windows tends to offer more choice and more options, and Mac OS X will offer less options, at least at first sight (under the hood, however, OS X offers almost all kinds of options). This is a design choice of Apple, offering only those seven types of file attributes as selectable columns for Finder that 95% of users will look for.