These two dates are identical in many instances because the camera is creating the image file on the file system of its memory card at the same time the image was “taken” by pressing the shutter button.

The ‘Date Taken’ column is of course metadata as defined and populated by the image file format the file happens to be in. The ‘Date’ column is metadata for the file itself and is agnostic to what the contents of the file are. If you don’t want to view the contents of one of the columns in detail view, simply don’t display it or place the column you don’t want to see toward the end of what’s shown so that it’s generally not viewable as you’re reading.Īdditionally, please bear in mind that the ‘Date’ and ‘Date Taken’ columns are showing two fundamentally different pieces of information. I sincerely apologize in advance for asking this question because I cringe when I see others do it: Why do you want to do this?Īs already mentioned, File Explorer allows you to select which columns you want to be visible and also allows you to rearrange the order in which those columns are displayed.

Windows 7 find files by date taken