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title: Metadata
description: Handling of metadata, in particular creation dates, in Ente Photos
description: Handling of metadata in Ente Photos
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# Metadata
This document describes Ente's handling of metadata, in particular photo
creation dates.
This document describes Ente's handling of metadata
## Import
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map, for example, `flower.jpeg` and `flower.json` and show the same date for
`flower.jpeg` that you would've seen within Google Photos.
### Screenshots
### File name
In case the photo does not have a date in the Exif data (and it is not a Google
takeout), for example, for screenshots or Whatsapp forwards, Ente will still try
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> This process works great most of the time, but it is inherently based on
> heuristics and is not exact.
If we are unable to decipher the creation time from these 3 sources, we will set
the upload time as the photo's creation time.
## Modifications
Ente supports modifications to the following metadata:
- File name
- Date & time
- Location
The first two options are available on both mobile and desktop, while the
ability to update location is only available within our mobile apps.
### Bulk modifications
You can bulk-edit creation time of photos from our desktop app, by
multi-selecting items and selecting the "Fix time" option from the action bar.
You can bulk-edit location coordinates of photos from our mobile app, by
multi-selecting items and selecting the "Edit location" option from the action
bar.
## Export
Ente guarantees that you will get back the _exact_ same original photos and