Help with importing photos from PC to Mac

[oddnalo]

So i'm moving from a PC to a new Mac. I transferred my photos to an external HD as the migration assistant would take days to transfer 30GB of photos. When I transfer them to the photos app, they have the wrong date. When i check the files, the date taken is right, but i guess they’re sorting through the "Date Created" which is the day i copied them to the drive. They're sorted with the correct date in my PC Photo app.

Is there any way to fix this? a setting or something i have to change before copying?. It would be impossible to go through my 10 thousand photos and change the date one by one.

 

[barbu]

It sounds like you lost the metadata for the photos in the course of the transfer.

when you say:

When i check the files, the date taken is right

do you mean the metadata looks correct?

 

[oddnalo]

Yes "Date modified" shows the correct date. So i don’t understand why is sorting with the newer date.