OneDrive changing the dates on my photos?!?!?

45,000 photos!?!  That breaks my heart.  Some time ago I complained about the same problem. No response.  I need to be able to find files based on modified date.  I also need to know when was the last time a file was actually modified.  Sometimes I think that some of these companies are too big for their britches. (I just deleted almost a paragraph of related complaints)   I haven't decided what I'm going to do with my 30 years of business records but I need to move them to a remote location that won't mess with the modified dates.  I am so sorry about all this complaining.  I just feel so powerless.

Dates taken cannot be changed and are often wrong

Most of the photos are unorganized and i have posted this before.  Microsoft must not care?

Keep your day job.

!!!!!!!!!!    HERE IS A SOLUTION GUYS       !!!!!!!!

January 3, 2020

The same **** happened to me last night and it really pissed me off, so I've been testing different methods, etc to find a work-around but......    It seems it was there, built-in all the time. However they must have kept it a secret to the support people who are supposed to furnish answers and solutions instead of projecting a laissez-faire attitude toward us, their clients.  C'est la vie.....

STEPS TO DOWNLOAD IMAGE FILES FROM GOOGLE PHOTOS

AND

RETAIN DATE, DATE TAKEN, AND DATE CREATED FIELDS

1)      Go to photos.google.com 

2)    Click on selection or all photos with dot in upper left-hand corner of image

3)      Click on hamburger

4)      Click on Edit Date & Time

5)      Choose Shift dates & times (Photos keep their relative time difference)

6)   The Date and Time fields will default to value of image file with earliest (or oldest depending on your perspective) entries.

7)     Click on Preview to view Dates and Times of files

8)      Click Save. The dot indicating the selected file(s) will now disappear.

9)  Re-select those files you wish to download as in #2 above

10)  Click on hamburger and choose Download. Files will be zipped and downloaded to your computer with the Date, Date Taken, &         Date Created fields left unscathed including these three Date fields in the EXIF Metadata. Also the Date Taken field in the EXIF            metadata will remain as it was and will not be stripped. 

NOTE: Image files downloaded from Google Drive (as opposed to Google Photos) will download without any extra hoops & ladders and will retain all original Date field values.

Yes, this is a royal pain in the **** and requires MUCH more that it really should, but it wouldn’t be Google if it wasn’t this way. They are allergic to documentation and on-going education of their support people and thrive on keeping things moot to make them feel better and keep us bourgeois folks in their proper place.

Aloha,

Forrest

That sounds like a Google problem and has NOTHING to do with MS or OneDrive. I believe others were talking about OneDrive changing dates, but I've not seen a single post suggesting that OneDrive changes the Date Taken field, only the Date Created and Date Modified fields, where are different. This distinction does not seem to register with many of the users complaining about the dates changing.

Also, these responses are from fellow end-users, not MS. Many comments here complain that users like me try are trying to provide helpful information to fellow users, as if we're somehow spokespeople for MS. I am not MS and have nothing to do with MS, other than being a user and a fan (if I weren't a fan, I wouldn't give a **** about helping other users). In spite of problems and limitations, in my opinion, MS still puts out software that is FAR BETTER than any of the other big companies, especially Google.

The very fact that this community of people trying to help each other exists is a testimony to how much many of us appreciate what MS does.