Photo Date Adjustator is a third-party utility for Apple macOS that takes photo or video files as input (like JPEG, PNG, GIF, RAW or MOV format files) and extracts the photos' or videos' Content Created timestamp from the metadata stored within those files. The metadata considered for each file is the corresponding EXIF, TIFF or other related metadata that a digital camera or smartphone stores with each photo or video taken. It allows you to then adjust the respective timestamp information and change it in each photo's metadata, as well as setting the file system Created and Modified timestamp of the respective file to match the photo's Content Created timestamp stored in the photos metadata. By the way, when using the term 'photo' anywhere in this documentation, this has to be considered synonymous with the term 'photo' or 'video' – both types of media are supported.

Typical use-cases for Photo Date Adjustator is re-adjusting photos' Content Created timestamps if the camera date was off, or match the corresponding photo files' filesystem timestamps to match the point in time when a photo has been orignally taken. When copying files between different file systems or up- and downloading them to and from Cloud storage, those filesystem timestamps may be overwritten. This utility helps you to restore the original timestamps from the metadata.

Photo Date Adjustator can be downloaded and installed for free (like in "at no charge") from the Apple App Store, where you can also check out the many reviews and ratings if in doubt:

This documentation was last updated for Photo Date Adjustator version: 3.12

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