However, you can revert to the old search behavior using the Mach2 utility by Rafael Rivera. Open up a File Explorer window in a folder containing your images, then click on the Sort By button in the ribbon at the top and select ‘Date Taken’.The date picker (calendar) may not appear in Windows 10 version 1909 and higher, due to the introduction of a new Search box/UI. Your image files will probably contain EXIF data, storing within them the time and date when the photos were originally taken, so you can sort them by this if you wish. If you don’t have your original disk and have lost the time stamps, then all is not lost. Select Start from the Action menu to start your copy. In the right-hand pane, ensure that the Time Stamp box is ticked, select any other options you want and click OK. Click the Option button and select ‘File attributes, Error handling’ from the left-hand pane. Next, choose your source and destination paths, by clicking on the source and destination buttons in the main window. To access the options required to manage your file attributes, select ‘Advanced’ from the View menu. It provides a graphical interface to set of functions similar to those of Robocopy. RichCopy, written by Ken Tamaru of Microsoft. If you’re put off by the idea of using the Windows Command Prompt, you can download a utility called To use it, open up a command prompt by right-clicking on the Windows 8.1 start button and selecting ‘Command Prompt (Admin)’. Standing for ‘Robust File Copy’, Robocopy offers many advanced bulk copying options including the ability to maintain the original timestamps on your files and folders. HELPROOM ANSWER If you still have the original drive and are able to copy the files again, then you can use the Windows built-in command ‘Robocopy’ to copy your files instead. This means I’m no longer able to sort my collection by date. This seemed to work fine, but when I looked more closely I noticed that the files all had the same time and date. To cope with the growing collection, I bought a larger drive and copied over all the images. The pictures are organised into many folders, which I like to keep sorted by date. Windows 8.1 PC, which has grown to the point where the drive is now nearly full.
QUESTION I have a large collection of photos on my
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