Back-up photos through iPhone messes up file names on WD Home

[YGustav]

I just checked on coincidence my cloud home to do some updating. Just curious looking at some photos, I happened to notice that I had file names like:
IMG_6489
IMG_6489_1
IMG_6489_2
First I thought they were doubles, but the I saw they were distinct pictures with maybe years apart from each other. And then I got reallllly frustrated. Because there is no way I can and will re-arrange them. Arranging them on date is also not possible because the Cloud takes the upload date as the date the picture was taken.

I also tested my iPhone by taking a picture, deleting it (completely) and take another picture if he will use the same name again. But that’s not the case. My only guess is that it starts counting again when you reach picture after IMG_9999. But that’s a theory. What can I do about the situation? I would like to have everything in chronological order in dates.

Thanks in advance!

[NoPlex]

@YGustav

saw they were distinct pictures with maybe years apart from each other. And then I got reallllly frustrated. Because there is no way I can and will re-arrange them. Arranging them on date is also not possible because the Cloud takes the upload date as the date the picture was taken.

Apple doesn’t let you export metadata from their photo library, it is proprietary data which ensures Apple users will stay with iCloud Photo, an Apple business decision. But there are partial solution:

Date stamp on photos moved with desktop app

If one reads the Apple forum, one might come across a revealing answer such as the following post. There is a very good reason why WDC is stopping development of the desktop (macOS) support of personal storage such as the My Cloud Home on the macOS and it is iCloud. Apple is building a pretty good moat around their business and their customers are captive to their ecosystem and there is zero reason for Apple to support third party storage. Apple users could blame the third party device makers…

ExifTool

Just for completeness, though, I did look at the documentation, and with ExifTool , do this:

exiftool -r '-DateTimeOriginal>FileModifyDate' directoryname

[YGustav]

NoPlex thank you for coming back so soon to me. I will have a look into it tonight and will let you know if this will do the trick!