importing photos from iphone not showing in folders by date taken

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I have always used autoplay or photo app to import photos from my iphone to my Windows 10 computer. As of this week (maybe since the last Windows update) the photos do not import in the standard folders by date taken as they always have. They are just randomly going to my pictures folder, not within folders by date as they always have. Photos I imported on December 10 did as they always do. When I imported photos today from the last several days they just went to the pictures folder. I have rebooted my computer, rebooted my iPhone X and tried importing just one new photo. It is still not working as it always has. Any assistance would be welcome. Thanks.

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I just go straight to the iPhone link that shows up on File Explorer when I plug in the phone. It should show up on the "This PC" list. I don't bother with the Win10 Photo app.

When you see the link for the phone, right-click and the "Import Photos and Videos" link shows up on the menu. If your iPhone comes up on AutoPlay, the File Explorer option should be available there as well.

When the import window pops up, click on "More Options" and there you will find the folder creating options. They can be grouped by name, date imported, date taken, and other combinations. This is also where you can change the AutoPlay options.

I've also used the photo transfer utilities from Canon and Nikon to transfer images from my DSLR. The applications are free for anyone to download and use, and they will read the iPhone directories and also create individually dated folders. But, I don't remember if they have issues with reading all the subdirectories within the iPhone's DCIM directory.

On our Mac, I don't bother with Apple's Photos app. I do all of the transfers using Nikon NX-Studio application. Rather than importing as individual photo files, Apple's Photos app not only dumps everything into a single directory, but all the photos populate a single monolithic file. If you want individual photo files, you have to export them out of the Photos app. It seems that Microsoft has mimicked that approach with the Windows Photos app.

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2021-10-07T09:44:40+00:00

Hi PonyXpress

Would you kindly let me know if you found a third party app to import photos into monthly photos in the format

YYYY-MM like they used to.

thank you very much

Jane
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Anonymous

2021-10-07T09:43:13+00:00

Hi LaurenChiodo

Did you ever find a solution to get the photos to import into month folders in the format YYYY-MM.

Many thanks

Jane
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Anonymous

2021-09-06T18:34:22+00:00

I had this problem too. Instead of going through the photos app itself, I right clicked on ‘Apple iPhone’ in file explorer and selected import from there. This opened up the option to save photos in date taken folders.

Hey Jordan... I just had this same problem with the photos being imported willy-nilly into my Pictures folder.

My question is.... How do you get the 'Apple iPhone' link in your File Explorer? My file explorer in Windows 10 doesn't give me that choice. I use an iPhone and imported photos by USB a few days ago. Now I'm getting a Windows Update to install "Apple, Inc. - USBDevice - 486.0.0.0" (which I have no idea what this is for)... but now Windows Update won't let me check for any NEW updates at all. Not even the 'Check for Updates' button is there... just this Apple USB thing shows it's 'Pending Install'.

Since I don't know what it's for, I don't want to install it.... but will that give me the "Apple iPhone' link in the File Explorer?

Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks
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Anonymous

2021-09-05T20:25:59+00:00

Hi

An easy fix to bypass this issue is to have a script move the files to sub folders as ..\2021\2021_08_31 e.g. like this Powershell script:

#Path where pictures are downloaded/stored

$FileFolder = "d:\bilder"

# Get all *.jpg files in folder - change to whatever you like.. DO NOT remove the -File parameter or else it will be executed on folders as well

$files = Get-ChildItem  -Path $FileFolder -File -Filter "*.jpg"

for ($i=0; $i -lt $files.Count; $i++) {

    # Get file creation date

    $date = $files[$i].CreationTime

    # New subfolder with year\year_month_day

    $NewFolder = $FileFolder + "" + $date.ToString("yyyy") + "" + $date.ToString("yyyy_MM_dd") + ""

    # Create folder if it does not exist

    New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force -Path $NewFolder

    # Full path and filename for the new target

    $NewFile = $NewFolder +  $files[$i].Name

    #Move the file

    Move-Item -Path $files[$i].FullName  -Destination  $NewFile

}

Feel free to use it at your own risk. Try and test it first on temp folder and files.

Regards

Petter
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