Wrong sorting of Files after import

[Markus Meyer]

Hello,

I have the problem that after the import of photos of my iPhones the files are correctly renamed after recording date, however, copied to wrong folders. For example, the folder 2016/12 contains photos with a recording date from December 2016 and photos from May 2016 or December 2015.

Overall, I imported about 6500 photos. Moving all files by hand would be very complex. The photos are also available on the iPhone.

Does anyone know this problem and may have a solution for me?

Many Greetings

Markus

My operating system is Windows 10 Pro with LR 2015 CC

[Rob_Cullen]

What are the details you used in the Destination Panel?

I suspect you may have renamed the files by date, but had the 'Organize' option set to [into one folder].

Do not re-import. It is easily possible to use the Metadata Filter to select photos by date (Year, Month, Day) and drag them to appropriate folders in the folder panel. (Right-click in the folders panel to create new folders.)

The date format options in the import dialog are also very confusing (they were for me!).

[Markus Meyer]

Thank you for your response.

Basically, I leave each photo when importing rename. This looks like this: YYYYMMDD_HH-MM-SS_FileName

My folder structure is e.g. 2016/01 ... 2016/12 etc. As I always do.

During the import, however, the files are curiously copied partially to the wrong folder. Some photos of a series are e.g. Copied to the correct folder, others turned into a completely different one.

[Rob_Cullen]

Sorry can not be of more help.

Another expert in metadata may be able to check if Lr is not reading the iPhone files metadata correctly.