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Gallery Sort by date taken not working
jthomas
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I like to have the images in my travel galleries appear in chronological order. In the last I have had no trouble with this. But in the last week I have created a new gallery and have it set to sort by date taken as usual, but many photos are out of order. When I click on the 'info' button on the pop-up menu, the correct date and time are shown, so that information must be available in the Exif.
p.s. I have done nothing to revise my site since the new options have become available.
p.s. I have done nothing to revise my site since the new options have become available.
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Thoose two pictures, with dates set to 10/08/2010 (date of scan) show up in my smart galerie with the rule "taken betwin 01/07/2013 and 19/08/2103"!
As other Lightroom users know, the dates fields are often interpreted in different ways for sorting picts: sometimes soft uses date "taken" (capture date), sometimes "created" or "modified".
For my case, as I don't have any "date taken" on the EXIF metadata, I don't know how SM get the pictures as taken in 2013! Perhaps that SM substitutes the missing information with the upload date?
I'll add that it seems that the best thing could be to use EXIF Tools to re populate missinf fields (I think it is the most complete soft to change metadata fields).
Actually, it would be usefull if SM team could tell us excatly what field they use for sorting the picts by date.
Jerome
My galleries do not appear to be sorting by any criteria--maybe it's by upload date/time?
I really need to sort these by date taken...
I have had this same issue - only since migrating to the new SmugMug last week. I thought that there was something all of a sudden wrong with my camera's date/time stamping, but when I realized that I could sort by date taken in my windows explorer folder, but not on SM, I knew that wasn't the case. The only luck I've had with this is if I've taken an entire session on one camera only, I can sort by name - which will automatically put them in chronological order. Otherwise, the function is still not working and I can't seem to find a solution.
Additionally, my watermarking seems to be failing now too. I'm super pleased with most of the changes made, but if these are hiccups, they're big ones that should be fixed immediately.
I have my galleries sorted by date taken (in new smug); there is no problem with that sort.
Where have you specified the sort?
What do you mean by "my watermarking seems to be failing"? What is happening, and how is it set up?
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I too, am having problems with sorting by date/time. Actually the new smugmug states it sorts my date, and I have assumed it also takes into consideration of the "time" the pictures was taken, so when the photos of a series of action/sports shots are uploaded, such as when scoring a goal in a run of 4-10 photos, the photos are indeed sorted by correct date, but the time is all arbitrary when it comes down to the seconds and sometimes the minutes, to I have to manually sort many photos, that have not been sorted by time taken. This was not gthe case with the legacy uploads/sorts. So there is indeed a problem with the new smugmug, I guess having to do with sorting and taking into consideration the time down to the seconds. The sort does appear to sort when the time difference between shots is more than 60 seconds. Anything under 5 seconds or so appears to be incorectly sorted.
I too, am having problems with sorting by date/time. Actually the new smugmug states it sorts my date, and I have assumed it also takes into consideration of the "time" the pictures was taken, so when the photos of a series of action/sports shots are uploaded, such as when scoring a goal in a run of 4-10 photos, the photos are indeed sorted by correct date, but the time is all arbitrary when it comes down to the seconds and sometimes the minutes, to I have to manually sort many photos, that have not been sorted by time taken. This was not gthe case with the legacy uploads/sorts. So there is indeed a problem with the new smugmug, I guess having to do with sorting and taking into consideration the time down to the seconds. The sort does appear to sort when the time difference between shots is more than 60 seconds. Anything under 5 seconds or so appears to be incorectly sorted.
To get around this, I usually rename my photos with numbers in the correct sequence before I upload them to smugmug, but when I am shooting with 2-3 cameras in a very busy action packed sporting event, the various cameras use defferent means of naming the files, and I cannot always sort the photos by number before uploading them to smugmug, and the sort then fails and I have to manually sort the rapid sequence photos for instance 4, 5, or more photos of a player scoring a goal in which case I have several phostos with the same date/hour/minute but may vary by only a few seconds or milliseconds, and these fail to sort nad have to be sorted manually. Any way smugmug can fix this?
For photos already on SmugMug, you could only consider manually arranging them or to add the sequence number to the caption so you could sort the photos by caption.
If you're seeing an issue with the sort feature, please include links to a few example photos in your gallery so we could actually take a closer look at the photos and your site.
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