Canon R 10 exports same image info with two different dates

[VictoriaJZ]

I have a new Canon R 10 and took some pictures today [4/10 roughly 10am-12pm] - I opened up the card on my computer to import the images and when I looked at the list view it says IMG_6551.CR3 yesterday at 10pm and then IMG_6551.xmp Today at 1:34pm - I checked the camera itself and its Date/Time is 04/10/23 and an accurate time [in other words I'm writing this at 2pm and camera has the same time].  First, do I need to import the sidecar items?  I'm using Lightroom Classic.  Second, why is the RAW image showing as being taken yesterday and the sidecar .xmp showing as today  - looking at the pics themselves, I took them at around 10am but the import says it was Yesterday at 10pm.  

[I did go in to check the camera itself = for some odd reason it said 4/9/23 and Samoa time, which I have never been at.  I have now changed the info to be correct - 4/10-220p in Chicago but I had already set the date time a week ago - ]

[johnrmoyer]

It is my habit to move the switch on the memory card to write protect before putting it in the card reader on my iMac. The Finder program on the mac and I guess maybe on the iPad will add files to speed future indexing and sometimes those files will confuse a camera until the card is formatted in the camera.

The Apple photos app seems to me to work well other than that. The Apple photos app can display some of the meta data from the CR3 file including the original date/time and time zone offset.

The Apple photos app will in some circumstances create an XMP file on macOS and I guess maybe on IOS on the iPad: https://support.apple.com/guide/photos/export-photos-videos-slideshows-and-memories-pht6e157c5f/mac

The XMP file created by photos.app is an XML text file. It contains any metadata that photos.app does not know what to do with or that photos.app wants to save separate from the image data itself.

On an iMac, Linux PC or maybe even on Windows, one may use exiftool to read the contents of the xmp file. https://exiftool.org/  , but a command line is needed and I do not know how to get a command line on an iPad.

[VictoriaJZ]

Very helpful = as I am working now with images as close to original state as possible [not yet brought into LRC] it might be quite helpful to determine creation date/time - I'm trying to put them all in chronological order and some are Canon R-10 and some are iPhone14ProMax thus the bit of confusion 

[shadowsports · Accepted solution]

Greetings,

So the question has been answered.  The camera is not creating the .xmp sidecars.  Its something you have installed on the iPAD.  You don't need them and they can be deleted.  When traveling, I often copy the days worth of shots on my memory card to a PC.   I might name the folders day1, 2, country, city or similar.  This helps when you get home.  I know I was in [location] on a given day and it can help when sorting.  This also creates a back up while you're on the trip.  I then have images saved to multiple cards, and the PC making the chance of my loosing memories about zero.