Different date upon indexing

[Canay]

This is actually a separate problem then my previous different date problem...

As I was fixing the problem with the 03/03/14 dates I noticed that most of my newer photos had the same date and time of 2014:08:29 16:07:45. I was perplexed about this so I just did a test on a new folder of photos. Since I had written all metadate to my files my folder in windows had the wrong date. So I went to my "originals" backup and confirmed they had the correct date so I used those. In the screen shot on the right is my folder in windows showing the date taken as 9/13/2014. In IMatch I rescanned the 2014 folder and the 2014-09-13 -iPhone folder appears. But notice that the three dates in the metadata panel are all the 2014:08:29 16:07:45 date. So why would this be?

As I was typing this I decided to pause and do another test. I went back in and deleted the folder. Removed the "my copyright" to apply the copyright template from the indexing preferences and re-scanned the 2014 folder. The 2014-09-13 folder appeared this time with the correct dates. So I must have done something wrong in setting up the copyright. At this point I don't even remember how I set that up. So for now...I'm not going to add that in at time of indexing.

I should probably delete this whole post but if nothing else it will show you that people who don't know what they are doing can do major damage. It is obviously something I did and I don't even know how I did it!



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[Mario]

Your files can contain several timestamps. Up to 3 in EXIF, up to 10 in XMP, two in IPTC.
Windows Explorer sometimes works in mysterious ways when it comes to metadata, e.g. favoring proprietary Microsoft metadata over standard metadata, using metadata only available in Windows etc.

If you think that IMatch displays something wrong, you can always use the ExifTool Command Processor (<F9>,<E>) and then run the "List All Metadata" template. This shows you (and when you attach the output) us what the file really contains.