I'm on Windows 10, but I think this works in Windows 7 - In the normal Windows Explorer view, make sure you are in "detail" view. Then right-click along the header row (the row that shows Name, Date, Type, etc.). You should have an option to show the Date Taken.
Thanks; I changed the header from "last modified" to simply "date", and this now shows the "date taken" that agrees with the date of capture in properties.
I would have chosen "date taken", but this choice made the little "reverse order" button-thingie disappear.
While blundering around in there, I also found that I could scoot each column over to allow longer file names to show in their entirety; that had annoyed me for many years.
Also, the headers can be dragged into a different order.
I also discovered that there were many more details that could be displayed; in fact, all three date columns can be shown at the same time --- "date", "date taken", and "last modified".
Now, after getting these wonderful features figured out, my original situation remains --- ; however, if I can figure out how to change the time-stamp in "properties", maybe I can resolve my situation.
Properties will allow me to change the date taken, BUT it will not allow me to change the time.
ANOTHER DATE/TIME SITUATION has manifested itself; this has never happened to us before.
After I had already started this thread, I loaded 600 images from the wife's memory card; the 600 images were all taken on three consecutive days and separated in three consecutive folders within the camera/card.
I followed my usual procedure in transferring these images onto the computer; I use DIM to copy the images from the card to dated folders within the computer; DIM selects the earliest image, right to the micro-second, and gives it a custom name and a suffix of _001, and proceeds consecutively.
Now, this is where things get weird; the images are numbered and display in perfect correct order; however, randomly scattered, about two thirds of these images show the time of capture exactly five hours later.
It gets weirder; this five hours wrong time-stamp displays in properties, in Explorer, and in every image program I have checked, EXCEPT in the Elements organizer; although the time is even wrong in properties, Elements organizer displays the correct time.
I cannot figure out how to correct this in properties and changing the stamp in other programs does not change the wrong time in properties.
With Elements displaying the correct time, doing "write ... to metadata" does not change that wrong time in properties.
I haven't edited or otherwise modified any of these images yet; so, I am going to put the card back in the reader and do this all over again to see if the problem remains.
In the meantime, I would sure appreciate to know how to change the date/time of capture in properties such that all other programs recognize that as being the actual time of capture; this ability is really needful when dealing with scans.
Thanks for reading.
