Problem With Keeping Track Of Dates On Videos/Photos

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Hey guys, I have an issue here, and it has been something that I haven't paid much attention to until now where it is bugging me. Whenever I try to find out the real creation dates of photos/videos (a.k.a when they were taken), there are two different dates, one where the video/photo was created on the filesystem and the other when it was actually taken. I get confused by the Date Modified and Accessed because they are not the real dates, but instead are dates on the filesystem. So therefore I always have to use exiftool to show the real creation dates on the photos/videos and I have to manually rename my video/photo files with datestamps like this e.g. (Youtube Test Video [7-27-16}.mp4) on it which is extremely time consuming since I drag in lots of videos very often onto my desktop. Is there a much easier and less time consuming way to do this? If I'm preserving memories from videos and photos, I do not want to find out years later where the date that these were taken were absolutely wrong.
 
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You can download that, it should import things the same way.
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Are there any other programs or options I could use? Picasa doesn't exist now so it's called Google Photos.

 

hang-the-9

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You can download that, it should import things the same way.
 
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Windows explorer (when switched into "Details" view) has an option to sort / show "Data Taken" field, in addition to modified / accessed.

There are plenty of other programs to use, I have fallen recently in "love" with this app.

THe problem with Picasa is not that you can't download it, but that Google has changed / discontinued the Google Maps' API which Picasa used to geotag the photos.
 
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Other programs like what? What type of software am I looking for for my purpose here? Photo Manager software?