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Thanks, I will give that a try.

Thanks Jim, I had studied that post before I posted my question, because it seems either incomplete or quirky at the very least.

The PhotoDate macro filed as applied to thumbnail custom info is showing XMP:Photoshop:DateCreated, which, in my case, came from IPTC:DateCreated, and is the only date ...

I hadn't investigated the macro command option, sounded like a great idea. Doesn't seem to work though. I've tried multiple combinations:
%YYYY%mm%dd (which should give me 19010101 and 19050325 etc, and be easy to sort on - but nah, doesn't fix the sort. I tried multiple arrangements of those date ...

My photos are all identified with IPTC:Date Created set to the date the photo was taken. This is per IPTC standards that I learned about years ago when I first started cataloging my family photos in IMatch.. This field seems to have correctly come over into the XMP:Photosop:DateCreated field, which ...

I am still investigating and testing (on day 2 of my 30 day trial) but I can add some detail to this issue.

I have some TIF files with metadata all populated, including faces. Once I convert to jpg, the metadata is there, but the face/region info is not. So I've lost the people identification, but ...