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Apple Photos app corrupts images

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1119 points pattyj | 1 comments | 17 Sep 25 11:07 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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dzink ◴[17 Sep 25 12:46 UTC] No.45275201[source]▶
Not sure if related but importing images via image capture on mac to the disk of the mac gives you correct time when the photo was taken in the file (kind of important if it’s family photos). But if you import it to a usb drive you get current time as creation time for each file so you’ve lost any timestamp you had on the photos.
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mystifyingpoi ◴[17 Sep 25 13:15 UTC] No.45275462[source]▶
> kind of important if it’s family photos

Anything important should be kept inside the file. Filesystem metadata gets lost all the time, isn't consistent between operating systems, zipping up a folder and extracting it will probably mess up timestampts too.

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1. ValentineC ◴[17 Sep 25 14:50 UTC] No.45276545[source]▶
Apple's Migration Assistant messed up timestamps when I did a M2 > M4 copy recently.

Dropbox doesn't seem to keep timestamps properly either.

I like using filesystem timestamps to sort through things in Finder, and thankfully I like A Better Finder Attributes for being able to batch copy EXIF data into timestamps.

[1] https://www.publicspace.net/ABetterFinderAttributes/index.ht...