Add 'Content Created' column to Finder list view

You can send direct feedback to the macOS product team as a feature request, because otherwise, there is no user means to add "content created" to the Finder list view options.

I had a little more time.

The "content created" is not a Finder data item but rather comes from a Spotlight query of the indexed file. It is an optional selection within the Finder's View menu's Preview options panel under Image Detail.

Spotlight has kMDItemContentCreationDate and kMDItemFSCreationDate. They can be equal, or different depending upon how and when the files were produced or copied to the Mac.

For instance, in the Terminal, I changed directories to ~/Pictures/Beaches. In that folder, using the Zsh shell, I wrote the following brief syntax to show all content adjacent on one row per image:

for f in *.(jpg|heic)(.Non);
do
        mdls -raw -name kMDItemFSName -name kMDItemContentCreationDate -name kMDItemFSCreationDate "${f}" | xargs -0 -n 9
        printf '===\n'  
done

WIth some of the output appearing like this:

NormShea wrote:

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Is there a way to customize the drop down to include "Content Created"? There are a lot of other "date" options, which I'm sure are helpful in some situations, but I'm trying to sort images by the date I took the picture, which none of these do.

Our friend @VikingOSX provides good guidance.

And I'll add that while you cannot include the 'Date Created' info to be displayed in the Column view as it does in List view, as you may or may not know, you can Sort the Column view by Date Created. This, of course, will sort all of the columns being displayed, but if your folders aren't deeply nested this may not be much of an issue.

To do this, select from the Finder menu > Show View Options (⌘J) and then Sort By: Date Created.