Sorting by Capture time?

New digital photography I take seems to be perfectly managed by LightRoom 2015 CC, there is a time to Capture poster and when I sort a file or a collection of these 'capture time' it works as I expect, but when I take an old photo taken on an old camera or scanned recently or years ago that I'll meet serious problems trying to associate a date for the old photo and then have sort correctly and I have been reading and browsing for hours and have found no clues other than that stores Lightroom several dates and times with a photo I am sometimes (sometimes only) able to see in the EXIF metadata Preset and they understand :

Date time Original

Date time digitized

Date time

(see: Lightroom files can contain several Dates "Julieanne Kost's Blog of ")

I don't see an easy way to change these fields, and they tend to "come and go" when you browse the different files with the same "EXIF Preset' selected. However, I can edit and sort by (yay!), called the Capture time, that would be great if it worked. But unfortunately edition the using metadata to capture Date/time / command menu to change the Capture time doesn't seem to change how this picture sorts out when 'Capture time' is selected for the type.

The only other option triage is called 'Added order', which is perhaps one of the three metadata fields that I list above?

It seems to me that someone above Adobe worked ENOUGH SACRAMENT HARD to make it so difficult! ::) or I have a damaged catalog or user, me, is missing some basic notion. In any case, I hope that everyone who reads this will forgive my attempts rather feble to hide my frustration in this. There is a lot of work to change the timestamp date 22 thousand pictures, especially when you have already done in Photoshop elements Organizer and little if any that is deferred and appartently needs to be redone. So yes, I'm frustrated, so forgive me and help me understand what is happening, refer me to something I should have read before starting this project, give me homework, I have a Lynda.com account, just please tell me not concerning the bug well documented with metadata in video editing, this is not what it is. Please do not give me great detailed explanations of the three options to adjust the Date/time of Capture on selected images, I've lived all this. I just need to know how to change a date field for a photograph that Lightroom will allow me to sort by and I don't like that it is or if I lose any reference to another date the file is trying to remember (I do not remember when the photo was scanned). And please excuse my tone! I'm really a fan of the product, but he left me speechless on this problem! ::) Thanks for the advice, suggestions and patience! : )

-Michael

Huge thanks to johnrellis and Just Shoot Me for pointing me in the right direction, I think I'll answer my own question since I think I know roughly what the problem was and what to do about it, if you use a Mac like me.

(1) it is primarily a problem with scans, I received from ScanCafe.com, they have done a GREAT job but left something weird in there with metadata.

(2) I went to the app store for Mac and bought this: Mac App Store - PhotoMill: batch convert, edit metadata, rename, resize, watermark and more

(3) make sure that you understand about the file formats and how LightRoom manages metadata. In my case, I deal with JPGs and have LightRoom updated all the metadata automatically. If you are not familiar with this aspect of LightRoom, stop here and do some reading, you'll see why if you read on.

(4) with closed LightRoom, I opened all the images of ScanCafe and essentially put the capture date, creation date, and modification date for the desired date, since I care anything else then will forgive for not work this up yet, but if you're like me and you have a digitalized picture just don't care when you analyzed the darn thing! Why change the date Mod? Because I don't know what I'm doing, so I just changed it, omniscient mod date will reset to the date I do other changes to this file, no biggie, I took just a shotgun approach because I was frustrated.

(5) very important, once you're done editing all stamps date and time of all the images of your bad conduct, launch LightRoom and select all the images you just edited the metadata, then right-click on one of them and select metadata / reading

(6) it warns you that you go to the wire of the writing of metadata in the catalog for these images, which shouldn't be a problem, because you have read step 3 above and you know that all the necessary metadata has already been written in the files. If you're good. Say very well and let it read disc and begin to sort correctly.

Thank you all, sincerely. Drinks on me at the World Famous Magic Castle in Hollywood for your help johnrellis and Just Shoot Me tell you when.

Your friend for life,

-Michael

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